Trivia of Lana Turner

Trivia of Lana Turner

*Her auburn hair was bleached for Idiot's Delight (1939). She was withdrawn from the film, but the fact that she had become a blonde not only changed her screen image but gave her such an outgoing, swinging personality that Hollywood called her the Nightclub Queen.

*In 1937 she starred in "The Adventures of Marco Polo" with Gary Cooper. Part of her make-up consisted of black slanted eyebrows that were glued on with fishnet and pulled off after filming each day. By the time the movie was finished Lana's eyebrows had disappeared completely and would never grow back, forcing her to paint them on for the rest of her life.

*In Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) with Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman Turner was originally supposed to play Ivy, the tart. Bergman was supposed to play the innocent girl engaged to Tracy, but she wanted Turner's part and so the roles were switched.

*During World War II Lana became one of Hollywood's most popular pin-up girls. Unlike Betty Grable and other pin-ups she was not paraded around in bathing suits. MGM wanted her to have a more glamorous image so she was photographed in lingerie and fur.

*Once said that her turn as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) was "the role I liked best".

*She was never married for more than five years. Her longest marriage was to Henry Topping (four years, seven months, 14 days). Her shortest marriage was to Stephen Crane, which was annulled at six months, 18 days (38 days later she married him again). She was married to Artie Shaw for 1 day shy of seven months.She once said her ambition in life was to have one husband and seven children, but it worked out the other way around.

*Her only daughter Cheryl Crane fatally stabbed Turner's lover, gangster Johnny Stompanato, during a physical altercation in 1958. Stompanato physically attacked Turner, and Crane, who was 14 at the time, wanted to protect her mother. The murder was deemed justifiable homicide at a coroner's inquest and Crane was acquitted.