Lana Turner - Biography - IMDb Lana Turner Biography Showing all 95 items Jump to: Overview (5) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (8) | Trade Mark (2) | Trivia (49) | Personal Quotes (22) | Salary (8) Overview (5) Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner Nicknames 5' 3" (1.6 m) Mini Bio (1) Lana Turner had an acting ability that belied the "Sweater Girl" image MGM thrust upon her, and even many of her directors admitted that they knew she was capable of greatness (check out The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)). Unfortunately, her private life sometimes overshadowed her professional accomplishments. Lana Turner was born Julia Jean Mildred Francis Turner in Wallace, Idaho. There is some discrepancy as to whether her birth date is February 8, 1920 or 1921. Lana herself said in her autobiography that she was one year younger (1921) than the records showed, but then this was a time where women, especially actresses, tended to "fib" a bit about their age.

Most sources agree that 1920 is the correct year of birth. Her parents were Mildred Frances (Cowan) and John Virgil Turner, a miner, both still in their teens when she was born. In 1929, her father was murdered and it was shortly thereafter her mother moved her and the family to California where jobs were "plentiful". Once she matured into a beautiful young woman, she went after something that would last forever: stardom. She wasn't found at a drug store counter, like some would have you believe, but that legend persists. She pounded the pavement as other would-be actors and actresses have done, are doing and will continue to do in search of movie roles. In 1937, Lana entered the movie world, at 17, with small parts in They Won't Forget (1937), The Great Garrick (1937) and A Star Is Born (1937). These films didn't bring her a lot of notoriety, but it was a start. In 1938 she had another small part in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) starring Mickey Rooney .

It was this film that made young men's hearts all over America flutter at the sight of this alluring and provocative young woman--known as the "Sweater Girl"--and one look at that film could make you understand why: she was one of the most spectacularly beautiful newcomers to grace the screen in years. By the 1940s Lana was firmly entrenched in the film business. She had good roles in such films as Johnny Eager (1941), Somewhere I'll Find You (1942) and Week-End at the Waldorf (1945). If her career was progressing smoothly, however, her private life was turning into a train wreck, keeping her in the news in a way no one would have wanted. Without a doubt her private life was a threat to her public career. She was married eight times, twice to Stephen Crane . She also married Ronald Dante, Robert Eaton, Fred May, Lex Barker , Henry Topping and bandleader Artie Shaw . She also battled alcoholism. In yet another scandal, her daughter by Crane, Cheryl Crane , fatally stabbed Lana's boyfriend, gangster Johnny Stompanato, in 1958.

It was a case that would have rivaled the O.J. Simpson murder case. Cheryl was acquitted of the murder charge, with the jury finding that she had been protecting her mother from Stompanato, who was savagely beating her, and ruled it justifiable homicide. These and other incidents interfered with Lana's career, but she persevered. The release of Imitation of Life (1959), a remake of a 1934 film ( Imitation of Life (1934)), was Lana's comeback vehicle. Her performance as Lora Meredith was flawless as an actress struggling to make it in show business with a young daughter, her housekeeper and the housekeeper's rebellious daughter. The film was a box-office success and proved beyond a doubt that Lana had not lost her edge. By the 1960s, however, fewer roles were coming her way with the rise of new and younger stars. She still managed to turn in memorable performances in such films as Portrait in Black (1960) and Bachelor in Paradise (1961). By the next decade the roles were coming in at a trickle.

Her last appearance in a big-screen production was in Witches' Brew (1985). Her final film work came in the acclaimed TV series Falcon Crest (1981) in which she played Jacqueline Perrault from 1982-1983. After all those years as a sex symbol, nothing had changed--Lana was still as beautiful as ever. She died June 25, 1995, in Culver City, California, after a long bout with cancer. She was 75 years old. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Ray Hamel and Denny Jackson Spouse (8) Trivia (49) Born at 12:30pm-PST According to the book "Golden Girls of MGM" by Jane Ellen Wayne, she lost her eyebrows due to the glue used to attach false ones to give her an Asian look. In her autobiography, she stated that her true birthdate is February 8, 1921. She stated that "I am one year younger than the records show." Fainted during her 1953 wedding to Lex Barker .

Gave birth to her only child at age 22, a daughter Cheryl Christina Crane (aka Cheryl Crane ) on July 25, 1943. Child's father is her 2nd ex-husband, Stephen Crane . Billy Wilkerson of The Hollywood Reporter found her sipping a Coke in a drugstore and was so taken by her he blurted out that standard Hollywood line, "How'd you like to be in pictures?". Her first role, sure enough, had her in a tight skirt and even tighter sweater sitting at a drugstore counter. She was set to appear in Anatomy of a Murder (1959) with James Stewart until she objected to the off-the-rack wardrobe that director Otto Preminger had selected for her. Lee Remick took over the role. Her daughter, Cheryl Crane , wrote a book about her life with her mother, her mother's 7 husbands and numerous boyfriends and living in Hollywood.

It was entitled "Detour: A Hollywood Story" and was published in 1988 (ISBN:o-380-70580-X) Once when she was being interviewed by Hedda Hopper , Lex Barker , Lana's future husband, was in the same room. There was a large vase of flowers blocking her view of Lex, so Lana got up, walked across the room and removed them, remarking, "He's brand new and I want to look at him!" Her auburn hair was bleached for Idiot's Delight (1939). She was withdrawn from the film, but the fact that she had become a blonde not only changed her screen image but gave her such an outgoing, swinging personality that Hollywood called her the Nightclub Queen. She was called the Sweater Girl. Interestingly, Lana, translated into Spanish means "wool." In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) with Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman Turner was originally supposed to play Ivy, the tart. Bergman was supposed to play the innocent girl engaged to Tracy, but she wanted Turner's part and so the roles were switched.

Once she was forced to evacuate her apartment building when a fire broke out. Having only minutes to collect what she needed, Lana grabbed her lipstick, her eyebrow pencil and her hairdryer. She was a true American hybrid, with a mixture of Scottish, Irish, Dutch and English ancestry. Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna 's song "Vogue" Is portrayed by Brenda Bakke in L.A. Confidential (1997) Once said that her turn as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) was "the role I liked best". In Italy, almost all of her films were dubbed by either Lidia Simoneschi or Rosetta Calavetta . She was occasionally dubbed by Dhia Cristiani . "The Private Diary of My Life With Lana", a memoir, written by one of her closest friends, Eric Root, was published one year after her death. Root, a long time friend and hairdresser of Turner's, has a large collection of jewelry that belonged to Miss Turner. He still owns the beauty salon in Beverly Hills where Turner and many other iconic stars were clients. Campaigned for Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1944 presidential election.

Was originally hired to play Caddy Compson in The Sound and the Fury (1959), but was replaced by Margaret Leighton before filming began. Featured in "Femme Noir: Bad Girls of Film" by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry (McFarland, 1998). Was considered for the role of Maggie Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), which was eventually given to Elizabeth Taylor . Sister-in-law of Daniel Topping during her marriage to his brother, Henry Topping. She was never married for more than five years. Her longest marriage was to Henry Topping (four years, seven months, 14 days). Her shortest marriage was to Stephen Crane , which was annulled at six months, 18 days (38 days later she married him again). She was married to Artie Shaw for six months and 17 days. Although diagnosed with throat cancer in 1992, Turner continued to smoke until almost the very end of her life. Was offered the role of Mrs. Cabot on the series Hotel (1983), but made so many demands that she was dropped and replaced by Anne Baxter .

According to the Richard Burton biography "And God Created Burton" Turner had an affair with the actor when they were filming The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) together. February 14, 1954, CBS: This episode was an hour long tribute to help celebrate MGM's 30th anniversary. Lana Turner made a live appearance on the show and performed the "Madame Crematante" number (aka "A Great Lady Has An Interview") that Judy Garland had performed in 1946's "Ziegfeld Follies". Among the male singers/dancers featured were Steve Forrest, Edmund Purdom, and John Ericson. In her autobiography she wrote that she had skipped a typing class at Hollywood High School. She went to the Top Hat Cafe, on Sunset Boulevard, and was sitting at the counter sipping a Coke. According to the Sunset Boulevard website, Billy Wilkerson , who wrote for the Hollywood Reporter, noticed her and thought she was attractive enough to be in films. With her mother's approval, he introduced Turner to the agent, Zeppo Marx , who was Groucho Marx 's brother. Soon she was put under contract to MGM.

Was two months pregnant with her daughter Cheryl Crane when she completed filming Slightly Dangerous (1943). Returned to work five months after giving birth to her daughter Cheryl Crane in order to begin filming Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944). Suffered three stillbirths (in 1949, 1951 and 1956) during her life as a result of having the Rh factor. Became pregnant by her first husband Artie Shaw in 1940 and her then-lover Tyrone Power in 1946; on both occasions she had abortions. Was offered the role of Eloise Y. Kelly in Mogambo (1953) but she turned it down. Ava Gardner , who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead. She became involved with co-star Fernando Lamas while filming The Merry Widow (1952). He was supposed to co-star with her again in Latin Lovers (1953), but they had a falling out and Lamas was replaced in the film by Ricardo Montalban .

She was born in a small mining town, where her father Virgil, an itinerant miner and one of 12 children, eloped with 15-year-old Mildred Frances Cowan. Mildred's parents objected until they learned she was pregnant with what would be her only child, Lana. Shew as not "discovered" seated on a stool in Schwab's drugstore in Hollywood, but she was seen in an ice cram parlor across the street from Hollywood High School by Billy Wilkerson , founder and publisher of industry trade paper "The Hollywood Rporter," only a block or two away. Turner's father was murdered in December 1930 after participating in an all-night crap game in San Francisco, where the family had moved. The case was never solved. After her small but stunning part in They Won't Forget (1937), she was signed by director Mervyn LeRoy , not by Warner Brothers as is often believed (although Leroy was working for Warner Brothers at the time). When Leroy moved to MGM, he took Turner with him. At one point in her life, she counted and discovered that she owned 698 pairs of shoes.

When she was a young girl, she had dreams of becoming a dress designer. Favourite actresses as a child included Kay Francis and Norma Shearer . Close friend Linda Darnell acted as a witness at Turner's first wedding to Stephen Crane . Is mentioned by name in the Gus Kahn / Walter Donaldson song "My Baby Just Cares for Me". In 1958, while filming Another Time, Another Place (1958) in London, England, she was visited by her boyfriend, gangster Johnny Stompanato. Stompanato suspected that she was having an affair with co-star Sean Connery and at one point confronted Connery and threatened to kill him. Connery knocked him unconscious with one punch. He then waited until Stompanato regained consciousness and told him that if he ever saw Stompanato again he would kill him. Stompanato left London the next day. According to her autobiography Turner lost her virginity to lawyer Greg Bautzer in March 1938 at age 17. Their relationship ended after Joan Crawford revealed to Turner that she and Bautzer had been having an affair.

Her first lover was Greg Bautzer a lawyer who became known as "The Man Who Seduced Hollywood.". Daughter Cheryl Crane fatally stabbed Turner's lover, gangster Johnny Stompanato, during a physical altercation in 1958. Stompanato physically attacked Turner, and Crane, who was 14 at the time, wanted to protect her mother. Jerry Giesler represented Crane. The murder was deemed justifiable homicide at a coroner's inquest and Crane was acquitted. Personal Quotes (22) A successful man is one who makes more money than a wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man. I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint. [on Hollywood] It was all beauty and it was all talent, and if you had it they protected you. I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around. Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana. I've always loved a challenge. Trash is something you get rid of - or disease.

I'm not something you get rid of. I liked the boys and the boys liked me. The thing about happiness is that it doesn't help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me. The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now. It never did, really. It was romance I wanted, kisses and candlelight, that sort of thing. I never did dig sex very much. [on her father's murder] The shock I suffered then may be a valid excuse for me now - may explain things I do not myself understand. With each marriage, I thought that that would be *it*. In my wildest dreams I never, never thought that I would have seven husbands. If you can believe it, I thought at the time that each marriage would last forever. You see, with one bitterly painful exception, when I fell in love, I married. [on her marriage to Artie Shaw ] After the ceremony, we went out to an all-night diner for coffee.

Suddenly I realized that my mother had no idea where I was. The taxi drove us to the telegraph office, and I wrote out a message: "Got married in Las Vegas. Call you later. Love, Lana." Maybe it was subconscious, but I didn't mention who it was I'd married. I read someplace that Judy Garland , then seventeen, had had a serious crush on Artie [Shaw]. She had gone out with him days before I did and hoped he was getting serious. The morning after we eloped, she was eating breakfast in bed when she saw the headlines, and immediately burst into tears. Later that day Phil Silvers got an angry phone call from Betty Grable , who was in love with Artie and getting a divorce. "That son of a bitch," she told Phil, "who does he think he is?" If I don't laugh at least three times during the day, I've had a bad day. I've got to have a minimum of at least three good laughs. I wouldn't have survived without my sense of humor, and thank God I have always been able to laugh at myself. I haven't had an easy life, but it sure hasn't been a dull one.

And I'm pretty proud of the way this gal has held up. If I'd been given a magical glimpse into my future, if I could have foreseen everything that was going to happen to me, all the headlines my life would make, all the people who would pass through my days, I wouldn't have believed a syllable of it! [on relationships] Today things are very different, and I think they're healthier. People fall in love and move in together, and nobody bats an eye. They get to know each other first, to see if their romance can survive the mundane things like whether or not he picks up after himself, or she leaves hair in the sink. Or that all-important question of sharing expenses, each one pulling his or her weight. Honeymoon first, and if it lasts, then marriage. I like that. [on the headlines about the Stamponato case] I read everything, then reread it, attempting to analyze the whole awful happening. And after I had done that I felt totally drained. The press had done their worst, and now I knew exactly what that worst was. And I'd have to survive it.

[on her marriage to Artie Shaw ] Marriage meant permanence to me, but with Artie, I began to realize, it was no marriage. It was hell. [on Joan Crawford ] One day I got a phone call from Joan Crawford. Greg [Bautzer] had taken me to several parties at her house, but I didn't know her well. Those parties were all the same. After dinner the guests would be herded into a projection room to watch movies. Joan knitted constantly. During the film, you could always hear her needles clicking away. In These Glamour Girls (1939), I was billed as costar with Lew Ayres. There were so many girls in the picture that the studio had just slapped up some flats as our dressing rooms. As soon as I saw them I got Mr. Mayer on the phone. I could hear someone on the set whispering, "Uh-oh, she's going to get in trouble." But I went ahead and told him directly, "I want a dressing room of my own." And I got it.

Salary (8) Apocalypse Later: They Won't Forget (1937) They Won't Forget (1937) Director: Leo McCarey Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger and Allan Joslyn It's easy to see how the First National Pictures sputtered around the politics in this film, carefully opening with a caveat that everything in it is fiction even though it's based on a real murder, that of Mary Phagan in 1913. The book that told her story was called Death in the Deep South, which was the working title of our film. Then it became In the Deep South, then just The Deep South and eventually They Won't Forget, suggesting that perhaps 'the deep south' was a dangerous thing to mention in 1937. After the opening credits we get Abe Lincoln's famous proposition that all men are created equal, but then a quote by Robert E Lee that's inscribed at the foot of his statue. We're in Georgia on Memorial Day, an important event for the locals and an even more important one for the six Confederate veterans sitting in front of Lee's statue, waiting to march in memory of the Confederate dead.

They're the focus of the day, as everyone is either marching or watching them march, especially as they're getting old and won't be able to march on many more Memorial Days. As one points out though, the townsfolk won't forget once they're gone and if they do, they'll climb out of their graves and make them remember. Given that he's played by Harry Davenport we can believe him. It may sound heretical to say so given the context, but these veterans have their day and then it's handed over to someone else: Mary Clay. In reality, the victim was Mary Phagan, a thirteen year old girl working at a pencil factory, but this is a Hollywood movie so she turns into buxom sixteen year old Lana Turner learning shorthand at the Buxton Business College with a new surname. This was Turner's first credited role after being an extra in A Star is Born. She definitely made her mark here though, judging from how long the camera follows her down the road, far enough forward so we can see her breasts bouncing along with her stride. Soon she'd become the Sweater Girl and it's already rather obvious why.

In this film though she's just the victim and so leaves the film pretty quickly, dumped in the college basement. Under normal circumstances the case would be closed as quickly as it's opened, given that a negro janitor discovers the body; it's all the DA can do to stop the family lynching him right then and there. These aren't normal circumstances though because Memorial Day is always a quiet time for news and journalist Bill Brock wants a big story; because the District Attorney, Andy Griffin, has ambitions on the governor's job; and most of all because Prof Robert Perry Hale, Clay's shorthand teacher, is a damn yankee, one who can't seem to find his place in southern society. To be fair there is some circumstantial evidence against Hale. He was in the building at the time, Mary had a crush on him and when the police came to question him, he was planning to leave town and there was blood on the suit arriving back from the cleaners. What really counts against him is the fact that there's nobody on his side.

The barber who could provide his alibi doesn't want to admit that he cut someone in his chair, the negro janitor is pressured into telling all sorts of stories and public sentiment is whipped up against the yankee from moment one. Most importantly many of these people have active reason to take him down for their own purposes. DA Andy Griffin is played by Claude Rains, who is a little miscast here. Griffin is a massively ambitious man and Rains has that down, bouncing up and down actively in the courtroom scenes. I think what seems strangest is that while Rains was a powerfully subtle actor, there's nothing subtle about Griffin in the slightest, so he's forced to lower his voice and overact up a storm trying to be coarse. He's great at being smug but not so great at being sleazy. Allen Joslyn is more believably sleazy as reporter Bill Brock, who gets up to no end of unprofessional shenanigans to get his story. The scenes where the press invades Hale's apartment and searches it while she's fainted clean away are chilling. Joslyn looks a little like a shorter John Lithgow and that helps. Elisha Cook is a great pissant as Mary's boyfriend Joe Turner.

What stuns most is that while this story emphasises the miscarriage of justice, it really doesn't come close to what really happened. The victim wasn't a 16 year old secretarial student who was merely murdered, she was a 13 year old pencil factory worker who was raped and strangled. The convicted man wasn't just a yankee, he was a Jew, and after his lynching half of Georgia's 3,000 Jews left the state. The press wasn't just riled up by one journalist, it was fuelled by a war between two rival papers, to the degree that the Atlanta Georgian, recently taken over by the Hearst syndicate, published a morgue photo of the victim's head spliced onto another girl's body. No less than forty extra editions were issued on the day the murder was reported. Cops intimidated witnesses and even took statements after getting them drunk. Witnesses who had incriminating evidence against the factory's black janitor were ignored and never testified. Worst of all, the lynch mob didn't just hijack the train carrying the convicted man to prison, they kidnapped him from the state prison farm in a highly organised raid.

What's more the ringleaders weren't the grieving family of the dead girl, they included, among others, a former governor, a judge, the county sheriff and the son of a US senator, along with a lawyer who was also the solicitor general responsible for bringing the lynch mob to justice. No wonder none ever did. This lynch mob wasn't just an outraged set of locals either, it was an organised attempt to found a new version of the Ku Klux Klan, calling itself the Knights of Mary Phagan, posing proudly in front of the body for photographs that were later distributed throughout the south as postcards. It seems hard to believe that prejudiced southerners would convict a white man over the black man who almost certainly committed the crime, but there was another prejudice that isn't often highlighted. Leo Frank, the real man who was convicted and lynched of this murder, was a highly educated society man from the north, who had come south to run a factory in part owned by his uncle, a Confederate veteran. He wasn't the modest young shorthand teacher that he's depicted here, he was a society man with servants who spent his time on cultured pursuits like bridge and the opera.

He was the epitome of a perceived divide where the northerners ran things and the southerners worked for them. In the end he became the only known Jew to be lynched on American soil. What seems strangest to me is how the prejudice is shown in this film. Certainly prejudice is an appropriate topic, but the story doesn't sit well. The film tells us that almost every honest God fearing southerners is so prejudiced against the north that he'd happily take down a yankee instead of a negro. The true story suggests that these townsfolk were whipped up into a frenzy by a number of key individuals very set on their own gain, but there were many on both sides of opinion. The Atlanta Georgian ended up on Frank's side. Somehow, in omitting the more extreme material about prejudice, like the the Knights of Mary Phagan, the film exhibits its own prejudice against the south. The balance struck would make a fascinating scholarly article, as I'm sure the case already has. Recently new evidence came to light strongly suggesting the black janitor as the killer, including eye witness testimony, and this prompted a new award winning adaptation of the story in 1988.

This was The Murder of Mary Phagan, a four hour NBC miniseries written by Larry McMurtry and starring such talent as Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, Robert Prosky, Charles Dutton and William H Macy. It won the Emmy as the Outstanding Miniseries of 1988 and I'm now really interested in checking it out. It seems like a far more accurate account of the real story. This one's mostly interesting for the wrong reasons, like watching Claude Rains overact, Elisha Cook posture, Clinton Rosemond flounder and Lana Turner bounce.

Posted by Hal C F Astell at 1:41 am No comments: 1000+ images about Sweater Girls on Pinterest | Betty brosmer, Marilyn monroe and Photo search Pinterest • The world’s catalog of ideas Sweater Girls The term Sweater girl was made popular in the 1940s and 1950s to describe Hollywood actresses like Lana Turner, Jayne Mansfield, and Jane Russell, who adopted the popular fashion of wearing tight sweaters over a cone- or bullet-shaped bra that emphasized the woman's bustline.The term was virtually synonymous with "pin-up girl," a popular culture trope of the Second World War referring to the pretty girls whose pictures adorned soldiers' barracks. 68 Pins4.68k Followers Friday Fashionistas: Lana Turner | Va-Voom Vintage with Brittany Friday Fashionistas: Lana Turner Friday, January 27, 2012 "A successful man is one who makes more money than a wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man." - Lana Turner The Lady Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner was born in Idaho on February 8 1921.

As a girl, she loved going to the theater, especially to admire the beautiful costumes of her favorite silver screen starlets. One night, her father was robbed and murdered after a night of gambling. Very poor and in bad health, her mother moved herself and her daughter to Los Angeles. At age 16, she went to The Top Hat Cafe to buy a coke and was spotted by a publisher of The Hollywood Reporter. In admiration of her beauty, he referred her to a local talent agent. Lana in "They Won't Forget" The Legend “At what age does a lady become a legend? For me it was fifty-four.”- Lana Turner Lana Turner was cast in the 1937 film "They Wont Forget" and due to her tight, alluring sweater earned the nickname "The Sweater Girl". The sweater girl look of a fitted sweater over a pointy bra was popular from her debut to the 50's. Lana often said that if she wasn't an actress, she would have been a fashion designer. She adored fashionand at one point, owned 689 pairs of shoes. From lanaturner.org, "Once a fire broke out at her apartment, forcing her to evacuate.

Naturally, Lana grabbed only the essentials: lipstick, eyebrow pencil, and a hairdryer." She wore many incredible costumes throughout her acting career. Probably the most notable was her sexy all white ensemble in The Postman Always Rings Twice. Get the Look Lana loved that old Hollywood glamor. Luxurious, fitted sweaters, fur accessories, sparkle and white are all Lana trademarks. Lana Turner - IMDb IMDb Actress | Soundtrack | Producer Lana Turner had an acting ability that belied the "Sweater Girl" image MGM thrust upon her, and even many of her directors admitted that they knew she was capable of greatness (check out The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)). Unfortunately, her private life sometimes overshadowed her professional accomplishments. Lana Turner was born Julia Jean ...

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(performer: "A Great Lady Has An Interview (Madame Crematante)") 1952 The Merry Widow (performer: "The Merry Widow Waltz" - uncredited) 1951 Mr.

Imperium (performer: "Andiamo", "My Man and My Mule", "Solamente una vez (You Belong To My Heart)" (uncredited)) 1941 Ziegfeld Girl ("You Stepped out of a Dream" (1940), uncredited) / (performer: "Minnie from Trinidad" (1941) - uncredited) 1940 Two Girls on Broadway ("My Wonderful One Let's Dance" (1940)) / (performer: "Broadway's Still Broadway' (1940)) 1939 These Glamour Girls ("Loveliness" (1939)) Hide 1987 Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (TV Special documentary) Herself 1985 Circus of the Stars #10 (TV Special documentary) Herself - Performer 1982 Lana Turner Today (TV Movie) Herself 1981 Entertainment Tonight (TV Series) Herself 1959-1966 What's My Line?

(TV Series) Herself - Mystery Guest 1959 Sunday Showcase (TV Series) Herself Herself - Presenter: Best Supporting Actor 1956 Climax! (TV Series) 1943 Show-Business at War (Documentary short) Herself (uncredited) 2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (TV Movie documentary) 1994-2008 Biography (TV Series documentary) Herself 2008 Gable and Crawford (Video documentary short) Herself 2008 Tough Baby: Torch Song (Video documentary short) Herself 2007 Cámara negra. Teatro Victoria Eugenia (TV Short documentary) Herself 2006 20 to 1 (TV Series documentary) Herself 2005 Cinema mil (TV Series) Herself 2004 Ziegfeld Girl Intro (Video documentary short) Herself 2003 Bob Hope at 100 (TV Movie documentary) Herself (uncredited) 2001 Lana Turner...

a Daughter's Memoir (TV Movie documentary) Herself 1999 The Rat Pack (TV Series documentary) Herself 1993 La classe américaine (TV Movie) Isabelle 1975 ABC Late Night (TV Series) Herself - Mystery Guest 1969 Hollywood: The Selznick Years (TV Movie documentary) Actress 'Gone with the Wind' screen test (uncredited) 1963 Hollywood: The Great Stars (TV Movie documentary) Herself (uncredited) 1962 Hollywood: The Fabulous Era (TV Movie documentary) Herself Personal Details Other Works: She acted in John Van Druten's play, "Bell, Book and Candle," at the Cape Playhouse in Dennis, Massachusetts with Patrick Horgan in the cast. See more » Publicity Listings: 3 Biographical Movies | 8 Print Biographies | 2 Portrayals | 9 Articles | 7 Pictorials | 9 Magazine Cover Photos | See more » Official Sites: Did You Know? Personal Quote: With each marriage, I thought that that would be *it*. In my wildest dreams I never, never thought that I would have seven husbands.

If you can believe it, I thought at the time that each marriage would last forever. You see, with one bitterly painful exception, when I fell in love, I married. See more » Trivia: In Italy, almost all of her films were dubbed by either Lidia Simoneschi or Rosetta Calavetta . She was occasionally dubbed by Dhia Cristiani . See more » Trademark: Platinum blonde hair See more » Nickname: They Wont Forget [USA] [DVD]: Amazon.es: Rains/Dickson/Norris: Cine y Series TV They Wont Forget [USA] [DVD] Clasificado: No facilitado Formato: DVD-R Precio final del producto En stock. Entrega prevista para despuÃ©s de Navidad. Â¿Necesitas un regalo de Ãºltima hora? EnvÃ­a o imprime un cheque regalo de Amazon. RecÃ­belo tan pronto como 31 dic. - 11 ene. al elegir Entrega estÃ¡ndar durante la tramitaciÃ³n del pedido.

Ver detalles Nuevos: 4 desde EUR 19,87 DescripciÃ³n del producto A Southern lynch mob and district attorney say a Northern teacher killed a teen-ager. Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. Detalles del producto Formato: Blanco y negro, Pantalla completa, ImportaciÃ³n NÃºmero de discos: 1 CalificaciÃ³n espaÃ±ola (ICAA): No facilitado. No se nos ha facilitado la calificaciÃ³n espaÃ±ola por edades (ICAA), pero puedes consultarla en la pÃ¡gina oficial del ICAA. MÃ¡s informaciÃ³n sobre las diferentes calificaciones por edad . Estudio: Warner Archives ValoraciÃ³n media de los clientes: SÃ© el primero en opinar sobre este producto ASIN: B003552QXQ Â¿Quieres actualizar la informaciÃ³n sobre un producto o dar tu opiniÃ³n sobre las imÃ¡genes ?

Amazon Premium: EnvÃ­o 1 dÃ­a GRATIS y mucho mÃ¡s Los clientes Premium disfrutan de EnvÃ­o 1 dÃ­a GRATIS en mÃ¡s de un millÃ³n de productos, Acceso Prioritario a Amazon BuyVIP y Ofertas flash, Almacenamiento de fotos gratis e ilimitado y acceso a las series Amazon Originals, entre otras pelÃ­culas y series. TodavÃ­a no hay opiniones de clientes en Amazon.es 5 estrellas 5.0 de un mÃ¡ximo de 5 estrellas A Genuine Hidden Gem! 15 de febrero de 2012 Por J. F. McCausland - Publicado en Amazon.com Formato: DVD-R They Won't Forget is easily one of the best dramas of the 1930s, a decade which also brought us I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang, Of Human Bondage, and All Quiet On the Western Front.

The film was based on a book, Death in the Deep South, which was a fictionalized account of the true story of the murder of Mary Phagan and the sensationalized trial of her accused murderer, Leo Frank. Beautiful teenager, Mary Clay, is murdered on Confederate Memorial Day. Ambitious lawyer/D.A. Andrew Griffin sees the incident as his path to a Senate seat if he can get a conviction. To accomplish that, he needs the perfect scapegoat (truth be damned!) and he finds him in Robert Hale, a Jewish Yankee from New York City who was a teacher at the school where Mary was murdered. As the evidence is entirely superficial, Griffin uses intimidation, fear, and prejudice to get the results he desires, using a reporter, Bill Brock, to help create a media firestorm against Hale. One of the many elements that makes this film work so well is the explosive and brave screenplay by Robert Rossen and Aben Kandel, written a mere quarter-of-a-century after the horrific incident that inspired the book, the murder of Mary Phagan. Many of those involved were still alive in 1937, and certainly the bigotry and anger that led to such tragic results were still strongly felt.

(I do not intend to be oblique, but unfortunately, I cannot go into much detail about the real story without creating spoilers for the film, which I am wary to do. I would hate for the dramatic impact of the film to suffer. Suffice to say, once you see the film, you will be compelled to investigate the truth of this nasty murder and its brutal consequences. For me, I can`t help but ponder some parallels between the actual murder and its repercussions and events in Nazis Germany; I wonder if they were intentional . . . ) Claude Raines is given a rare opportunity to play the lead role in a movie, and he delivers a chilling, tour-de-force, and frighteningly real performance as Andrew Griffin. The final scene between the DA, the reporter, and the wife of the accused, is one of the most dramatic and tragic scenes ever filmed, and the closing lines, uttered by Raines, will raise the hairs on the back of your neck. It is exceptionally fast paced, almost lightning fast, so quick that you barely have time to catch your breath between shocks.

As fabulous as Rains is, however, the entire cast is superb, especially Gloria Dickson as Sybil Hale, Edward Norris as the accused murderer, and Allyn Joslyn as the unscrupulous reporter. This is one of my all time favorite films and I can not recommend it highly enough. 8 de 9 personas piensan que la opiniÃ³n es Ãºtil 5.0 de un mÃ¡ximo de 5 estrellas Excellent, powerful sociological drama 6 de agosto de 2012 Por haridam - Publicado en Amazon.com Formato: DVD-R In response to one of the above reviews, the reason the racial element was subdued or eliminated is that anti-Semitic themes had not yet come into vogue in Hollywood cinema. That would come some ten years later with "Crossfire" and others. This explains why the presentation focuses on the northern-origin aspect of the accused. It's still quite powerful, even with this shift in emphasis. The reason the real killer was not revealed is that the film's point is to expose political and legal corruption. It was not to create a whodunit, rather a deep study in a gross miscarriage of justice and mob violence.

To have revealed the true killer would have lessened the enactment, lowering its standard to the level of a detective yarn. As it is, the script is beautifully constructed, the characters finely etched, and the dramatic results truly penetrating. 4 de 8 personas piensan que la opiniÃ³n es Ãºtil 3.0 de un mÃ¡ximo de 5 estrellas Fictionalized Account of Leo Frank's Lynching 6 de abril de 2012 Por Dr. James Gardner - Publicado en Amazon.com Formato: DVD-R "They Won't Forget" is a 1937 black and white film based on the sensational 1913 rape and murder of a 13 year old factory worker in Georgia and the trial of a New York Jewish transplant who was in charge of the factory. The events were chronicled in a 1921 film "The Gunsalus Mystery" and a 1935 film "Murder in Harlem" (1935). The film is based on the fictionalized 1933 book by Ward Greene called "Death in the Deep South". The book's author was a reporter at the 1915 trial.

The film was part of Warner Brothers "ripped from the headlines" themed movies. It followed Fritz Lang's successful "Fury" (1936) which was also concerned with the lynching of an innocent man in jail. Claude Rains (1889-1967) plays the DA who hopes that the successful prosecution of a media case will propel him into the Governor's seat. Rains was one of the greatest actors of the 20th century. He appeared in only a few dozen films, but was nominated 4 times for an Oscar ("Notorious" in 1946, "Mr. Skeffington" in 1944, "Casablanca" in 1942, and "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" in 1939) although many people remember him best for "The Invisible Man" (1933) or "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938). Ed Norris (1911-2002) plays a Yankee school teacher suspected of being the killer.

Norris made more than 50 films between 1933 and 1955, mostly as a supporting actor in A films ("Boys Town", "Queen Christina") and a lead in B films ("The Escape", "Frontier Marshall"). Gloria Dickson (1917-45) plays Norris' wife in her film debut. Dickson was a popular actress in the 30s and early 40s, with no remarkable achievements to her credit. Sultry Lana Turner (1921-95) plays the young murdered girl. Turner is best remembered for her roles in "The Postman Always Rings Twice" (1946), "The Bad and the Beautiful" (1952), and "Imitation of Life" (1959), although it's her performance in "Peyton Place" (1957) for which she received her only Oscar nomination Elisha Cook Jr. (1903-1995) plays Turner's boyfriend. Cook is best known as the "gunsel" from "The Maltese Falcon" (1941).

He made nearly 200 films from 1930 to 1987. Harry Davenport (1866-1949) has a small part as a Confederate veteran. He gave us great performances as Dr. Meade in "GWTW" (1939), King Louis XI in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1939), Col. Skeffington in "Kings Row" (1942), and Grandpa in "Meet Me in St Louis" (1944). FWIW - Davenport was also in "The Ox Bow Incident" which is another story about a lynch mob. Mervyn LeRoy (1900-87) directs. He started out directing with "Little Caesar" (1931) and went on to achieve an Oscar nomination for "Random Harvest" (1942) and DGA nominations for "Quo Vadis" (1951), "Mister Roberts" (1955) and "A Majority of One" (1961) and a Golden Globe nomination for "Gypsy" (1962).

Among the nearly 80 films he directed were "I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang" (1932), "The Wizard of Oz" (1939), and "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944). 1937 was a pretty meager year in films. The top grossing films were "Snow White", "Saratoga", "One Hundred Men and a Girl", "Topper", and "Wee Willie Winkie". The Oscars went to "The Life of Emile Zola" (Picture), "The Awful Truth" (Director), "The Good Earth" (Actress) and "Captains Courageous" (Actor). Other notable releases that year were "Dead End", "The Prince and the Pauper", the Marx Brothers "A Day at the Races", and "A Star is Born". Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland made their first film together ("Thoroughbreds Don't Cry") and Clark Gable and Myrna Loy were voted the King and Queen of Hollywood.

The New York Times said "with courage, objectivity, and simple eloquence, [the film] creates a brilliant sociological drama and a trenchant film editorial against intolerance and hatred." They praised the actors - "you will not find one whose performance does not deserve commendation" - and the director - "remarkably skillful direction--there are a few touches as fine as anything the screen has done." Despite all the good things that can be said for the movie, there are several problems. Most of the characters are one dimensional and there is no attempt to identify the true killer of the girl. Moreover, in the real story it was the suspect's Jewishness that was the central issue, not his Northern origins. If you're interested in films about the failures of justice system, better films are Fritz Lang's "Fury" (1936), Mervyn LeRoy's "I am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang", and William Wellman's "Ox Bow Incident" (1943). Bottom line - a fictionalized account of the lynching of Leo Frank. 1 de 1 personas piensan que la opiniÃ³n es Ãºtil

Question: Who was nicknamed "The Sweater Girl" after she appeared in the 1937 film "They Won't Forget"?
Answer: Lana Turner