Lana Turner

Trivia

• Lana Turner was an American actress.
• Is one of the movie stars mentioned by Madonna’s smash hit “Vogue.”
• Lana’s mother had given her a baby grand piano as a wedding present after she married Artie Shaw. After the divorce, Artie refused to return it to her. Lana never forgave him for that.
• While married to Artie Shaw, Lana Turner had no idea she was hid third wife until one day he let something slip about his second wife.
• Lana lost her virginity to Greg Bautzer when she was seventeen.
• She loved dancing and claimed to be good at it.
• One of her first cars was a brand new fire-engine-red Chrysler coupe.
• She had her appendix removed after an acute attack when she was 14.
• For almost all of her early films, Lana Turner played with her own auburn hair and was usually described as a redhead. Her auburn hair was bleached in 1939 for Idiot’s Delight.
• She tested for the role of Scarlett O’Hara in Gone With The Wind.

Quotes

• “Always before in moments of crisis I called on that power we call God to help me through. This time, having lost faith in others and my faith in myself, I had lost my hope in God too. Now that hope returned. I really believed that He hadn’t wanted me to die.”
• “I woke up in a darkened room at the hospital. Only one light was on, where somebody was working on my wrist. The pain was terrible.”
• “In a trance I opened the cabinet and took out the bottle of pills. Methodically I downed them one by one. Then I thought I would take no chances of being revived. So I took out a razor blade. I didn’t hesitate for an instant. With one sharp movement, I sliced across my wrist. There was no pain at all. I saw the blood spurt out and that was the last thing I knew.
• “My career was a hollow success, a tissue of fantasies on film. Cheryl loved my mother, and they were both comfortably endowed in my will. I had never before felt or believed I could be in such a dark hole mentally, physically, and worst of all spiritually. All the good in my life-my mother, my child, my work, my friends-was blotted out by the dead feeling that nothing really mattered. I hadn’t heard that suicide was a “cry for help”. To me it meant putting a big stop to the pain and anguish. Th
• “But more important to me than money, was as always, the love I longed for. And finally I found it, if only for a moment. The man was Tyrone Power. I had always been attracted to him but I kept my distance because he was married. Then he and his wife Annabella separated, and one night he invited me over for drinks. What an evening! All we did was talk and listen to music, but for hours on end. We discovered we had similar thoughts and feelings, much the same values and tastes. Before he took me
• “I’d never seen anyone so beautiful and elegant, except at a distance. Although she had a delicious sense of humor, she still occupied a pedestal, and I was quite in awe of her. Someday, I told myself, I would be like her.”
• “How I admired and feared him. But at the same time I couldn’t help liking him. . . .He enjoyed teasing me because I blush easily. But he kept me on my toes, and I loved doing scenes with him.”
• “I never dated Mickey Rooney, that adorable nut. He had unmistakable talent, and he knew he was a star.”
• “I rarely lie, but this time I did. I made up a story on the spot, though I was shocked to think of it afterward. I told Stephan that I was in love with another man. “Who?” he asked, but I said it didn’t matter. When he persisted I came up with a name. A second bold lie, the handiest name I could think of. “It’s John Hodiak,” I said.”
• “One evening I made up my mind that it was time for a serious talk. I told Stephan that I couldn’t take it anymore, that the marriage was over and I wanted a divorce. He slammed out of the house in a rage. When he came back he said that he refused to let me divorce him. We were stalemated for a while because he wouldn’t move out. Once he locked our bedroom door and grabbed me by the arms, threatening to shake some sense into me."