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Lana Turner: Sweater Girl
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Synopsis: Lana Turner stars as an ambitious model who seeks her fortune in New York City. She is befriended by over-the-hill cover-girl Ann Dvorak, whose performance carries the story until she commits suicide twenty minutes into the film. Turner promises herself that she won't end up burned out like Read More
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Lana Turner, like Robert Taylor, her male counterpoint at M.G.M., never got the respect she deserved. Indeed, despite a sultry and sensational performance in THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE, in which she held her own with the great John Garfield, and her sensitively multi-faceted and Oscar-worthy work in THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, critics continued to regard her as a merely ornamental glamour girl, a label which has wrongfully remained attached to her image even today. It's hoped that the dvd release of two of her late-career box-office bonanzas will at last alter the perceptions of those who claim to have some knowledge of what fine film acting is all about.
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"The Sweater Girl" was a nickname that Lana hated the first time she heard it; she thought it detracted from her skill as a serious actress. But the public loved her sweet yet sultry image.
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The Adventures of Marco Polo (For Goldwyn Studios, 1938): Film in which ingénue Lana starred with Gary Cooper as a Eurasian maiden. In order to look the part of a Eurasian girl, Lana's eyebrows were repeatedly shaved off. They never grew back and she would have to paste fakes eyebrows on or draw them on for the rest of her life.
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