Lex Barker & Lana Turner

One day Lana 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!".

They met again at a summer party thrown by William Randolph Hearst's wife Marion Davies, Hollywood's then-reigning "Tarzan," Lex Barker, asked her to dance, and she acceded.

Lana’s dates with Lex were very hush-hush. Then he began to visit her on the set of “Latin Lovers” and to wait for her outside the M-G-M studios to drive her home each day. Having finished his own “Tarzan and the She Devil” and “Thunder Over the Plains,” Lex arranged his day to suit Lana’s schedule. Soon he was turning up wherever Lana went: first in Hollywood; then in Aspen, Colorado; next in Palm Springs. And finally there he was— surprise—on Lana’s plane as she took off for Paris!

Barker and Lana married in Sept. 1953, in Italy while Barker also accompanies her to Italy where she films Flame and the Flesh. No wonder Lana fainted during the ceremony.Barker and Lana traveled a good bit, which Cheryl Crane (Lana's only daughter) said she liked.

The reason they split up told by Cheryl. Barker would sexually abuse Cheryl, and she finally confided in her grandmother. When Lana’s mother told her what Barker had been doing, Lana ordered him out of her house. Barker said, “Whatever your daughter told you, it’s a lie,” but Lana hadn’t mentioned Cheryl.Their marriage ended in 1957 and he died in 1973. At the time Lana said, “It wasn’t soon enough.”