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Lana Turner: Marriages
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One of the most beautiful blondes on the silver screen, Lana Turner made hearts flutter. This reproduction paper doll from 1945 contains lavish film costumes from Slightly Dangerous (1943), Marriage is a Private Affair (1944) including that gorgeous wedding gown, and others. There are great daytime dresses and pants outfits, plus star photos. Two dolls and eight pages of clothes. Book size 9 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches with cardstock covers.
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Lana did not only have problems in marriage. She ... had a long battle with alcoholism and was a chronic smoker. She smoked so often, that her cigarette was often airbrushed out of her photographs. The drinking and smoking led to a diagnosis of throat cancer in 1992. She went through eight weeks of painful radiation therapy for a malignant tumor. In 1993, Lana announced that her cancer was in remission and she was fully recovered.
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By the end of the 1960s, Turner's age made her unsuitable for the type of role that she had played throughout her career. She still maintained an active and turbulent social life, marrying rancher Fred May in 1960. The marriage lasted for two years. Her sixth marriage, to producer Robert Eaton ended in 1969. Turner attempted to broaden her acting horizons by appearing on television but her series, The Survivors, lasted only 15 weeks in 1969. Shortly prior to the series' cancellation Turner entered her seventh and final marriage, to nightclub hypnotist, Ronald Dante.
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Turner suffered through many personal tragedies and failed marriages in her quest to find happiness. She ... struggled for a long period with alcoholism and smoking, both of which led to the throat cancer that would take her life.
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Mayer was so incensed by the debacle that he kept the now-pregnant Turner off movie screens for a year. Upon returning in 1944's Marriage Is a Private Affair, Turner's stardom slowly began to grow, culminating in her most sultry and effective turn to date as a femme fatale in 1946's The Postman Always Rings Twice.
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