Source: Best Movies by Farr
Source: Niven Busch, "Lana Turner: She Was Sipping a Strawberry Malt When Fame Walked in to Make her the Movie Sweater Girl," Life, December 23, 1940, pp. 62-67.
Source: The Internet Archive.
Source: Remarkably Retro.
"Rarely does somebody without a day's experience in a group theater, a finishing school, or a committee for the relief of foreign refugees knock over an importanc place in a business providing weekly entertainment for 55,000,000 people and attracting an annual gross of one billion dollars. Yet such a person Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner has turned out to be. Since the afternoon of the strawberry soda [at the Top Hat Malt Shop], she has failed co distinguish herself in any solidly constructive fashion; yet the U.S. public will soon see her in the best role of the biggest picture to be released by the industry's biggest company within the next few months-the part of Sheila Regan in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Ziegfeld Girl.
Although
her favorite color is red, her temperament unstable,
and her education limited co three months of
second-year high, she is now making 1,250 a week
as stipulated in the second-year clause of a seven-year
contract which in five more years will be paying her
$4,500 every seven days. She is regarded by her employers
as the most important of their youngsters and
described by Lillian Burns, the company's dramatic
coach, as 'the most brilliant girl I've ever caught.'"
Source: Niven Busch, "Lana Turner: She Was Sipping a Strawberry Malt When Fame Walked in to Make her the Movie Sweater Girl," Life, December 23, 1940, pp. 62-67.
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"Lana Turner lunching by pool at the Coral Casino with daughter Cheryl Crane." Color transparency by Earl Theisen for Look magazine.
Source: Shorpy.
View video documentary, narrated by Robert Wagner (7 minutes).
Additional newspaper coverage of the murder.
Mirror-News source: Larry Harnisch, "Johnny Stompanato, RIP," in "The Daily Mirror," Los Angeles Times.
The National Enquirer,
November 20, 2001, front page
Click here for larger image.
"Cheryl Crane," Women Who Kill (The Globe, 2014)
Lana Turner (Brenda Bakke) and Johnny Stompanato (Paolo Seganti) in LA Confidential (1997)
Portrait A (below).
Portrait B.
Portrait C.
Portrait D.
Portrait E.
Portrait F.
Turner with Ava Gardner.
Production still of Turner in Imitation
of Life, with Dan O'Herlihy. Haute couture!
Frame grabs from the scene above.