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Lana Turner (born Julia Jean Turner;〔 February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American film and television actress. Discovered in 1937 by a reporter as she sipped a soda in a Hollywood ice cream parlor and signed to a film contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer at the age of 16, Turner first attracted attention in ''They Won't Forget'' (1937), and later starred in featured roles, often as an ingenue. During the early 1940s, she established herself as a leading actress in such films as ''Johnny Eager'' (1941), ''Honky Tonk'' (1941), ''Ziegfeld Girl'' (1941), and ''Somewhere I'll Find You'' (1942). She appeared in the 1941 horror film ''Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde'', and her reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her performance in the film noir ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' (1946). Her popularity continued through the 1950s, in such films as ''The Bad and the Beautiful'' (1952) and ''Peyton Place'' (1957), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Media controversy surrounded Turner in 1958 when her daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed Turner's lover Johnny Stompanato to death in their Beverly Hills home; a coroner's inquest concluded that Crane had acted in self-defense. Turner's next film, ''Imitation of Life'' (1959), proved to be one of the greatest successes of her career, but from the early 1960s, her roles were fewer. Turner spent most of the 1970s and early 1980s in semiretirement, only working occasionally. In 1982, she accepted a much publicized and lucrative recurring guest role in the television series ''Falcon Crest'', affording the series the highest rating it ever achieved. Turner made her final film appearance in 1985, and died from throat cancer in 1995, aged 74. ==Early life== Turner was born in the small mining town of Wallace, Idaho.〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=Wallace ID )〕 She was the only daughter of teenaged parents, John Virgil Turner, a miner from Montgomery, Alabama (January 23, 1903 – December 14, 1930), who was 18 years old when his daughter was born, and Mildred Frances Cowan, of Lamar, Arkansas (June 19, 1904 – February 22, 1982), who was 16 years old when her daughter was born. She had Dutch, Scottish, English, and Irish ancestry. Until her film career took off, young Julia Turner was known to family and friends as "Judy". Hard times eventually forced the family to relocate to San Francisco, where her parents soon separated. On December 14, 1930, her father won some money at a traveling craps game, stuffed his winnings in his left sock, and headed for home. He was later found dead on the corner of Minnesota and Mariposa Streets,〔(Minnesota Street and Mariposa Street, San Francisco, CA 94158 - google maps )〕 on the edge of Potrero Hill and the Dogpatch District in San Francisco, his left shoe and sock missing.〔Basinger, Jeanine (1976). ''Lana Turner''. Pyramid Publications. p. 19.〕 The robbery and murder were never solved. Soon after, her mother developed health problems and was advised by her doctor to move to a drier climate. With her 10-year-old daughter, she moved to Los Angeles in 1931.〔 Turner attended a Catholic church in Stockton with a local family. She converted to Catholicism taking the saints names "Mildred Frances" after her mother. Mildred and Lana were very poor, and Turner was sometimes separated from her mother, living with friends or acquaintances so the family could save money. Her mother worked 80 hours a week as a beautician to support them. After Turner was discovered, her mother became the overseer of Turner's career. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lana Turner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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