Lana Turner

Lana Turner (1921 - 1995)
==Film Deaths==
*They Won't Forget (1937) [Mary Clay]: Beaten to death (off-screen) by an unknown assailant in the school building; her body is shown afterwards (barely visible in the darkness) when the police investigate in the basement.
*The Ziegfeld Girl (1941) [Sheila Regan]: Towards the end of the film, she collapses and possibly dies as a result of her alcoholism. 
*The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) [Cora Smith]: Killed in a car accident while riding with John Garfield; we see the car go off the road, followed by a shot of Lana's hand in the wreckage. (See also Jessica Lange in the 1981 version.)
*Homecoming (1948) [Lieutenant Jane 'Snapshot' McCall]: Shot in the stomach in the crossfire on the battlefield.
*The Three Musketeers (1948) [Milady de Winter]: Executed (off-screen) by beheading; we only see Van Heflin's reaction as he watches the execution.
*The Prodigal (1955) [Samarra]: Commits suicide by jumping into a vat of molten gold.
*The Sea Chase (1955) [Elsa Keller]: Presumably drowned (off-screen), along with John Wayne, when their lifeboat is lost at sea.
*Madame X (1966) [Holly Parker]: Dies of a heart attack in the courtroom.
*Persecution (The Graveyard; Sheba; The Terror of Sheba) (1974) [Carrie Masters]: Drowned when her son (Ralph Bates) holds her head down in a cat's milk bowl.
==Television Deaths==
*Falcon Crest: Climax (1983) [Jacqueline Perrault]: Shot to death (off-camera) when Abby Dalton shoots at Robert Foxworth; it wasn't until the next season's opening episode Cimmerian Dawn that we learned that the shot hit Lana instead.
==Notable Connections==
*Ex-Mrs. Artie Shaw (famous bandleader) 
*Ex-Mrs. Stephen Crane (divorced, remaried, divorced again) 
*Ex-Mrs. Lex Barker 
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