Lana Turner

Lana Turner is, to me, almost a personification of Hollywood's golden age. Discovered as a teenager, she rose from pin-up model to bona fide star and stayed near the top for nearly five decades. Her private life was endlessly tabloid fodder, but I resist reducing her to scandal. The star on the Walk of Fame and the late-career Donostia Award speak to something more durable: real screen presence and staying power. What interests me is how completely she lived the contradictions of stardom, glamour and turmoil intertwined. She didn't just appear in the dream factory; she embodied its full, complicated machinery.

Name (English)

Lana Turner

Name (Japanese)

ラナ・ターナー

Reading

らな・たーなー

Born

February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Rooster

Origin

Wallace, Idaho, United States

Occupation

television actor / film actor / autobiographer / stage actor / model

High school

Hollywood High School

Awards & achievements

• 1995 Donostia Award
• star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
• 1975 Sitges Film Festival Best Actress award
• Targa d'Oro

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lana%20Turner
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8A%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201034

Tags

• Idaho
• television actor
• film actor
• autobiographer

Last updated

2026-06-16

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.