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Lana Turner: Movies
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In this June 15, 1942 photo, Lana Turner has just arrived at Seattle's Victory Square in a jeep. The popular movie star attracted the largest crowds seen in the square to that date. Victory Square was located on University Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues.
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Lana Turner and Charles Winthrop star in THE BIG CUBE, a movie from 1969 that tapped into the rising fears surrounding LSD use. Turner's character, Adriana Roman, is a soon-to-be-married former actress.
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Lana loved going to the movies. Every weekday she would save a nickel of her lunch money to put toward the twenty-five cent Saturday matinee. Her appreciation for the elaborate costumes of actresses Kay Frances and Norma Shearer carried over into her own career, and earned her a reputation for wearing some of the most beautiful costumes in film history. In fact, if she hadn't gone into movies, Lana always said she would have become a fashion designer.
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Turner's box-office stock was plummeting, a situation which MGM attempted to remedy by casting her in musicals; while the first, 1951's Mr. Imperium, was an unmitigated disaster, 1952's The Merry Widow was more successful. However, a string of failures followed, and after 1955's Diane, MGM opted not to renew her contract. When Turner's next project, The Rains of Ranchipur... failed to ignite audience interest, she again took a sabbatical from movie-making.
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