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Lana Turner: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As Julia Jean Mildred Francis Turner
Born February 8, 1921 • Idaho
Died June 29, 1995 (aged 74) • Los Angeles • California

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Lana Turner poses with her hand to her face in a classic black-and-white publicity portrait for the 1946 film The Postman Always Rings Twice.
John Garfield and Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice
Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful.
Kirk Douglas as Jonathan Shields stands on a ladder beside Lana Turner as Georgia Lorrison, who gestures dramatically from a decorated theater balcony in The Bad and the Beautiful.
Karen Dicker, Juanita Moore, and Terry Burnham sit together on a couch while Lana Turner stands holding a folder in a living room scene from the film Imitation of Life (1959).
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