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The Lady, the Legend, the Truth (book in English)
by Lana Turner
- Type
- Autobiographies
- Subject
- Actor > Lana Turner
- Lana Turner, actress, autobiography
- Publishing Date
- 1982
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton
- Collection
- (no collection)
- Language
- English
Dimensions
- Physical desc.
- Hardcover • 315 pages • ? €
6.25 x 9.5 inches (16 x 24 cm) - ISBN-10
ISBN-13 - 0-525-24106-X
978-0-525-24106-5 - User Ratings
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She was the Sweater Girl, provocatively sexy but with a small-town winsomeness-a combination that meant dynamite at the box office. She was the image of coolness and glamour, in diamonds and white fur, but she always drew the hottest, blackest headlines. Even before her teenage elopement with the mercurial Artie Shaw, her private life was considered public property. Now, at last, in this long awaited autobiography, Lana Turner separates fact from gossip-sparing no one, least of all herself-to reveal the sometimes humorous, often heartbreaking reality of the life behind the legend.
With the face of an angel and the body of an alluring woman, Lana Turner was one of the greatest natural beauties in screen history-and a hardworking actress as well. From her first small part in They Won't Forget, which she thought was 'just a job,' she rose quickly to become MGM's top female star. She created classic roles in The Postman Always Rings Twice (still called one of the steamiest films ever made, despite the censors); Peyton Place, for which she received an Academy Award nomination; and Imitation of Life. Her story captures life on the set during Hollywood's golden days, and is studded with anecdotes about her dashing leading men, among them Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, John Garfield, and Spencer Tracy; the MGM brass, her famous directors, and her friends, including Mervyn LeRoy and Pop Leonard, Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra.
Lana Turner had everything-or did she? 'I expected to have one husband and seven babies,' she says, but it would turn out the other way around. Trouble came early and often involved a man, some notable, like her beloved Tyrone Power, and one notorious, John Stompanato, when trouble would turn to tragedy. There would be a bout with alcohol and depression, but with humor and spunk she would fight back to become the 'new woman' she is today-'more disciplined, less gullible and persuadable . taking responsibility for my life.'
Told with relentless honesty by the woman who lived it, here is the explosive and touching story of the very real human being behind the myth-from the innocent fifteen-year-old who was discovered at a Hollywood soda fountain to the Dream Factory's most glamorous, most provocative star.
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