¿Quién no escuchó hablar de la legendaria actriz Lana Turner, o tal vez haya visto alguna
de sus películas? Turner fue una
estrella en Hollywood y trabajó con Kirk Douglas,
entre otras tantas celebridades. En 1958 su hija, Cheryl Crane, asesinó a su novio Johnny Stompanato, asestándole un cuchillazo en el abdomen. Turner protagonizó varias películas como The Postman Always
Rings Twice, y Peyton Place. En 1982 aceptó aparecer varias
veces en la serie Falcon
Crest. Para saber: un poco de la vida de Cheryl Crane, la única hija de Lana
Turner. En vocabulario: "featured" role e ingénue
Lana Turner (born Julia
Jean Turner; 1921 –1995) was an American
actress who worked in film, television, theater and radio. Over the course of
her nearly 50-year career, she achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a
dramatic actress, as well as for her highly publicized personal life. In the
mid-1940s, she was one of the highest-paid women in the United States, and one
of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's (MGM) biggest stars, with her films
earning the studio more than $50 million during her 18-year contract with them.
She is frequently cited as a popular culture icon of Hollywood glamour.
Born to
working-class parents in northern Idaho,
Turner spent her early life there
before her family relocated to San
Francisco. In 1936, Turner was 15
when she was discovered while purchasing a soda at the Top Hat Malt Shop in Hollywood.
At the age of 16, she was signed to a personal contract by Warner Bros. director Mervyn
LeRoy, who took her with him when he transferred to MGM in 1938. Turner
attracted attention by playing the role of a murder victim in her first film,
LeRoy's They Won't Forget (1937), and
she later transitioned into featured
roles, often appearing as an ingénue.
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| Lana Turner, 1926 |
During the early
1940s, Turner established herself as
a leading actress and one of MGM's
top performers, appearing in such films as the film noir Johnny Eager (1941); the musical Ziegfeld Girl (1941); the horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); and the romantic war drama Somewhere I'll Find You (1942), one of
several films in which she starred opposite Clark
Gable. Turner's reputation as a
glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her critically acclaimed performance in
the film noir The Postman Always Rings
Twice (1946), a role which established her as a serious dramatic actress.
Her popularity continued through the 1950s in dramas such as The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Peyton Place (1957), the latter for
which she was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Actress.
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| Lana Turner and Cheryl Crane |
Media
controversy surrounded Turner in 1958
when her 14-year-old daughter Cheryl
Crane stabbed Turner's lover Johnny Stompanato to death in their home
during a domestic struggle. Turner's
next film, Imitation of Life (1959),
proved to be one of the greatest financial successes of her career, and her
final starring role in Madame X
(1966) earned her a David di Donatello
Award for Best Foreign Actress. Turner spent most of the 1970s and early
1980s in semi-retirement, making her final feature film appearance in 1980. In
1982, she accepted a much-publicized and lucrative recurring guest role in the
television series Falcon Crest, which
afforded the series notably high ratings. In 1992, Turner was diagnosed with throat cancer and died of the disease
three years later at age 74.
Vocabulario
A "featured" role usually means a part that somehow stands out from the ensemble
and bit players.
ingénue:
candide, naïf, simple
Para
saber
Cheryl Christina Crane (born 1943) is an American
retired real estate broker, former model, and author. She is the only child of
actress Lana Turner, from her
marriage to actor-turned-restaurateur Steve
Crane, her second husband. She was the subject of significant media
attention in 1958 when, at fourteen years old, she stabbed to death her
mother's lover, Johnny Stompanato,
during a domestic struggle; she escaped charges, and his death was deemed a
justifiable homicide.
In the years
following Stompanato's death, Crane's rebellious behavior was
well-documented in the press. Upon graduating from high school, she briefly
worked as a model before entering the restaurant business, working at the Luau,
a Polynesian restaurant owned by her father. She would later study
restaurant management and hospitality at Cornell
University, hoping to become a restaurateur.
In the 1980s, Crane shifted her career focus to real
estate, becoming a broker in Hawaii
and Palm Springs, California.In 1988,
she authored a memoir titled Detour: A
Hollywood Story, and in 2011 published her first fiction work, The Bad Always Die Twice.
Inside a Hollywood Scandal: The Cheryl Crane Story
It was a scandal
that captured the attention of the nation: the gangster boyfriend of Hollywood
starlett Lana Turner murdered in her Beverly Hills home and her teenage
daughter Cheryl is the prime suspect.
Watch as actress
Lana Turner and her lawyer talks to
reporters after the release of her teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane, from juvenile hall following the murder of Turner's
boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato.
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