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Lana Turner born February 8, 1921 in Wallace, Idaho

🎞 American actress with a career spanning nearly five decades. She achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a film actress, as well as for her highly publicized personal life.

In the mid-1940s, she was one of the highest-paid American actresses, and one of MGM's biggest stars, with her films earning approximately one billion dollars in 2024 currency for the studio during her 18-year contract with them.

Lana's career-defining role was as the femme fatale Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), which established her as a serious dramatic actress. Other major hits included her Oscar-nominated performance in Peyton Place (1957) and the massive commercial success Imitation of Life (1959). 

Someday I’ll come back to you with a whole trunkful of clippings, and when you marry me, you’ll marry the first torero of Spain, not the second or third, but the first, the greatest!

Infrared picture of movie theater customers, New York City, 1943