Lana Turner Trivia

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  • One daughter: Cheryl Crane (fathered by Steve Crane).
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  • She was called the Sweater Girl. Interestingly, Lana, translated into Spanish means "wool."
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  • Is one of the many movie stars mentioned in Madonna's song "Vogue"
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  • In Italy, almost all of her films were dubbed by either Lidia Simoneschi or Rosetta Calavetta. She was occasionally dubbed by Dhia Cristiani.
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  • Measurements: 34C-25-34 ("The Sweater Girl" -1940), 35 1/2C-24 1/2-36 (from "Movieland Pin-Ups"- 1954), 34C-26-38 (from her autobiography), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).
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  • Is portrayed by Brenda Bakke in L.A. Confidential (1997)
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  • Born at 12:30pm-PST
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  • Was replaced by Margaret Leighton in the role of Caddy Compson in The Sound and the Fury (1959).
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  • Campaigned for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1944 presidential election.
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  • "The Private Diary of My Life With Lana", a memoir, written by one of her closest friends, Eric Root, was published one year after her death. Root, a long time friend and hairdresser of Turner`s, has a large collection of jewelry that belonged to Miss Turner. He still owns the beauty salon in Beverly Hills where Turner and many other iconic stars were clients.
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  • Once said that her turn as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) was "the role I liked best".
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  • She was a true American hybrid, with a mixture of Scottish, Irish, Dutch and English ancestry.
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  • Once she was forced to evacuate her apartment building when a fire broke out. Having only minutes to collect what she needed, Lana grabbed her lipstick, her eyebrow pencil and her hairdryer.
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  • In the movie Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) with Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman she was originally supposed to play the part of Ivy, the tart, and Bergman was supposed to play the innocent girl engaged to Tracy but Bergman wanted Turner`s part and so the roles were switched.
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  • 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.
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  • Once when she 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!"
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  • Her daughter, Cheryl Crane, wrote a book about her life with her mother, her mother`s 7 husbands and numerous boyfriends and living in Hollywood. It was entitled "Detour: A Hollywood Story" and was published in 1988 (ISBN:o-380-70580-X)
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  • She was set to appear in Anatomy of a Murder (1959) with James Stewart until she objected to the off-the-rack wardrobe that director Otto Preminger had selected for her. Lee Remick took over the role.
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  • Billy Wilkerson of The Hollywood Reporter found her sipping a Coke in a drugstore and was so taken by her he blurted out that standard Hollywood line, "How`d you like to be in pictures?". Her first role, sure enough, had her in a tight skirt and even tighter sweater sitting at a drugstore counter.
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  • Fainted during her 1953 wedding to Lex Barker.
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  • In her autobiography, she stated that her true birthdate is February 8, 1921. She stated that "I am one year younger than the records show."
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  • Her eyebrows were shaved off for the bit part of a harem girl early in her screen career. They never grew back.
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