Lana Turner
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"Julia Jean "Lana" Turner" was an American film and television actress.

Discovered 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). She played featured roles, often as the Ingenue (stock character)/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), Honky Tonk (1941 film)/Honky Tonk (1941), Ziegfeld Girl (film)/Ziegfeld Girl (1941), and Somewhere I'll Find You (1942). She appeared in the 1941 horror film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 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 film)/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 (film)/Peyton Place (1957), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

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I expected to have one husband and seven babies. Instead I had seven husbands and one living baby.

Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.

Humor has been the balm of my life, but it's been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana.

I've always loved a challenge.

A gentleman is simply a patient wolf.

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.

I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

My life has been a series of emergencies.