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Includes Turner's prices about her own life and job.
Includes a bibliography for even more reading.
Includes a table of items. "My life is a series of emergencies." (Lana Turner) A whole lot of printer ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most important numbers, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to speed on the lives of America's most significant men and women in enough time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. Through the golden age of Hollywood, few actresses proved as functional as Lana Turner, who got her start playing the wholesome, innocent young beauty as an adolescent before moving to femme fatale assignments and starring in horror classics like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Lana was found out as a result of her beauty; Louis B. Mayer immediately saw her as a potential alternative to Jean Harlow, and Turner's first roles played out off her sexiness, with an effect that reached completely to Argentina, where Eva Peron searched for to emulate her style. At the same time, however, Turner experienced disrespected by the focus on her looks and frantically wanted to show she is actually a critically acclaimed actress. That eventually occurred when she was nominated for an Oscar for best actress in Peyton Place (1957), and Turner would go on to have an acting job that spanned almost 55 years, with her last appearance coming just a few years before her death. Throughout her life Turner searched for critical acclaim to establish that she was greater than a attractive face, yet she is perhaps most famous now for living the type of life that stored gossip rags and rumor mills in business.
