Lana Turner

Lana Turner 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 MetroGoldwynMayer at the age of 16, Turner first attracted attention in They Wont Forget , and later starred in featured roles, often as an ingenue.

Turner was born in the small mining town of Wallace, Idaho. She was the only daughter of parents, John Virgil Turner, a miner from Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee , who wasyears old when his daughter was born, and Mildred Frances Cowan, of Lamar, Arkansas , who wasyears old when her daughter was born. She had Dutch, Scottish, English, and Irish ancestry.

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