Dorothy Stratten

He later married her sister. Lana Turner has collapsed!/ I was trotting along and suddenly/ it started raining and snowing/ and you said it was hailing/ but hailing hits you on the head/ hard so it was really snowing and/ raining and I was in such a hurry/ to meet you but the traffic/ was acting exactly like the sky/ and suddenly I see a headline/ LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!/ there is no snow in Hollywood/ there is no rain in California/ I have been to lots of parties/ and acted perfectly disgraceful/ but I never actually collapsed/ oh Lana Turner we love you get up. Bogdanovich wrote a book about her titled The Killing of the Unicorn. The eminent American poet Frank O'Hara wrote a poem featuring Turner after seeing a headline about her soon after her lover Stompanato's murder:. Snider committed suicide shortly thereafter in the same apartment. Stratten's tragic story was portrayed in the film Star 80 (1983). Her movies:. On August 14, 1980, her estranged husband brutally raped and murdered Stratten in her west Los Angeles apartment, apparently jealous over an affair she was having with Hollywood film director Peter Bogdanovich. She died in 1995 of throat cancer which was diagnosed in 1992.

She also appeared on television in Fantasy Island, the Cruise Ship to the Stars episode of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and in 1980 on The Tonight Show. In the 1970s and 80s, Turner appeared in several television roles, but the majority of her final decade was spent out of the public eye. Stratten appeared in five movies: non-starring role in:. Ronald Dante (1969-72). Paul began to control her life which eventually resulted in separation and a pending divorce in August, 1980. (1948-52); actor Lex Barker (1953-57), whom she divorced after her daughter Cheryl claimed that he molested her; rancher Fred May (1960-62); businessman Robert Eaton (1965-69); and nightclub hypnotist Ronald Peller, a.k.a. In June, 1979, she married Paul Snider in Las Vegas, Nevada. Topping, Jr.

In 1980, she became Playboy's Playmate of the Year. Her husbands were bandleader Artie Shaw (1940); actor-restaurateur Josef Stephen Crane (1942-1943, 1943-44); millionaire socialite Henry J. In 1979, she became Playboy's Miss August 1979 with a name change to Dorothy Stratten. Off screen, Turner was married eight times to seven different husbands, and had many lovers, including a gangster named Johnny Stompanato who was fatally stabbed by Turner's daughter, Cheryl Crane (The killing was deemed a justifiable homicide by coroner's inquest.). In 1976 while working part-time in a local Dairy Queen, she met a local promoter named Paul Snider (26) who coaxed her into sending photos to Playboy. Stratten forged her mother's signature on the model release form. The actress was nominated for an Academy Award for the 1957 movie Peyton Place. Dorothy Stratten (born Dorothy Ruth Hoogstraten) (February 28, 1960 - August 14, 1980) was born in a Salvation Army hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. She grew up and attended high school in Coquitlam. Turner went on to star in numerous films.

They All Laughed (1981). Wilkerson, who introduced her to actor/comedian/talent agent Zeppo Marx. Galaxina (1980). She was "discovered" at the age of 15 in the Top Hat Café in Hollywood by film journalist William R. Autumn Born (1979). Lana Turner reached the height of her fame in the 1940s and 50s. Americathon (1979). Her father was John Virgil Turner, a clerk and gambler who was murdered when she was a child; her mother was Mildred Frances Cowan.

Skatetown USA (1979). She was born in Wallace, Idaho, and died in Century City, California. In any case, she was called Judy as a child and became Lana Turner when she became an actress. The name on her birth certificate, as she stated in her autobiography, was Julia Jean Turner, not Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner as many sources claim. Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 - June 29, 1995) was an American actress famed early in her career for tight sweaters and smoldering sensuality and later in her career for sudsy romance films with maximum tragedy and glamorous gowns.

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