Quotes
 "The thing about happiness is that it doesn`t help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I`m grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I`ve had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me." The truth is, sex doesn`t mean that much to me now. It never did, really. It was romance I wanted, kisses and candlelight, that sort of thing. I never did dig sex very much.
"A successful man is one who makes more money than a wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man." - Lana Turner
"Humor has been the balm of my life, but it`s been reserved for those close to me, not part of the public Lana."
"I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn`t is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint."
"I liked the boys and the boys liked me."
"I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around."
"I`ve always loved a challenge."
"She was amoral. If she saw a stagehand with tight pants and a muscular build, she`d invite him into her dressing room." - An M-G-M executive
"She`s not Madame X; she`s brand X; she`s not an actress, she`s a commodity." -- Pauline Kael, movie critic
"Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I`m not something you get rid of."
[On Hollywood] "It was all beauty and it was all talent, and if you had it they protected you."
Trivia
"The Private Diary of My Life With Lana", a memoir, written by one of her closest friends, Eric Root, was published one year after her death. Root, a long time friend and hairdresser of Turner`s, has a large collection of jewelry that belonged to Miss Turner. He still owns the beauty salon in Beverly Hills where Turner and many other iconic stars were clients.
Campaigned for Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1944 presidential election.
Once said that her turn as Cora Smith in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) was "the role I liked best".
She was a true American hybrid, with a mixture of Scottish, Irish, Dutch and English ancestry.
Was replaced by Margaret Leighton in the role of Caddy Compson in The Sound and the Fury (1959).
Billy Wilkerson of The Hollywood Reporter found her sipping a Coke in a drugstore and was so taken by her he blurted out that standard Hollywood line, "How`d you like to be in pictures?". Her first role, sure enough, had her in a tight skirt and even tighter sweater sitting at a drugstore counter.
Fainted during her 1953 wedding to Lex Barker.
Her auburn hair was bleached for Idiot`s Delight (1939). She was withdrawn from the film, but the fact that she had become a blonde not only changed her screen image but gave her such an outgoing, swinging personality that Hollywood called her the Nightclub Queen.
Her daughter, Cheryl Crane, wrote a book about her life with her mother, her mother`s 7 husbands and numerous boyfriends and living in Hollywood. It was entitled "Detour: A Hollywood Story" and was published in 1988 (ISBN:o-380-70580-X)
Her eyebrows were shaved off for the bit part of a harem girl early in her screen career. They never grew back.
In her autobiography, she stated that her true birthdate is February 8, 1921. She stated that "I am one year younger than the records show."
In the movie Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) with Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman she was originally supposed to play the part of Ivy, the tart, and Bergman was supposed to play the innocent girl engaged to Tracy but Bergman wanted Turner`s part and so the roles were switched.
Once she was forced to evacuate her apartment building when a fire broke out. Having only minutes to collect what she needed, Lana grabbed her lipstick, her eyebrow pencil and her hairdryer.
Once when she was being interviewed by Hedda Hopper, Lex Barker, Lana`s future husband, was in the same room. There was a large vase of flowers blocking her view of Lex, so Lana got up, walked across the room and removed them, remarking, "He`s brand new and I want to look at him!"
She was set to appear in Anatomy of a Murder (1959) with James Stewart until she objected to the off-the-rack wardrobe that director Otto Preminger had selected for her. Lee Remick took over the role.
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