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Lana Turner: Roles
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Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an Academy Award-nominated American film actress. On-screen, she was well-known for the glamour and sensuality she brought to almost all her movie roles. Off-screen, she led a stormy and colorful private life which included seven husbands, numerous lovers, and a famous murder scandal.
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During the next two years, Turner continued to make films while completing her high school education at studio schools. LeRoy transferred to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios (MGM) in 1938, and was followed by Turner. She completed her high school studies in 1939, and began spending more time making movies. Turner was given her first starring role later the same year in The Dancing Coed. As Turner's career progressed, she began making a name for herself among Hollywood's party set. In 1940, she married bandleader, Artie Shaw, on a whim in Las Vegas.
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Forty Carat[S]: Lana made her stage debut in this play in Westbury, Long Island, New York on June 29, 1971. In role that could have been written for her, she played a forty year old divorcee who is wooed and courted by a twenty year old gigolo. Although she was unsure about playing the role at first (due to the fact that she had never been on a stage on her life), she soon warmed to it and ended up laughing all the way to the bank when producers Lee Gruber and Shelly Gross had to pay her an unheard of $17,500 dollars per week instead of $7,500 due to a typographical error.
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Extra credit: Turner's eyebrows were shaved off for her role in the 1938 film The Adventures of Marco Polo. Her birthdate is sometimes listed as 1920, not 1921. Turner claims in her autobiography that 1920 is an old error and that her birth certificate gives the date as 1921.
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On October 25, 1981 the National Film Society presented Lana with an Artistry in Cinema award. Also busy with a reoccurring role as Jacqueline Perrault on TV's Falcon's Crest, she found herself immersed in almost all entertainment facets.
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In the 1970s and 80s, Turner appeared in several television roles, but the majority of her final decade was spent out of the public eye. She died in 1995 of throat cancer which was diagnosed in 1992.
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