Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American actress.
Discovered and signed to a film contract by
MGM at the age of sixteen, Turner first attracted attention in
They Won't Forget (1937). She played featured roles, often as the
ingenue, in such films as
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). During the early 1940s she established herself as a leading actress in such films as
Johnny Eager (1941),
Ziegfeld Girl (1941) and
Somewhere I'll Find You (1942), 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.
