Lana: the public and private lives of Miss Turner Hardcover - 1971

Citadel Press, 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Citadel Press [Published Date: 1971]. Hardcover, 297 pp. Stated First Edition. Good in good dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with silver and black lettering on spine. Light bumping, scuffing and soiling to edges of covers. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Dust jacket has several 1/2" or less nicks and tears and creasing along edges. light overall scuffing, aging and soiling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped. NOT Ex-Library. Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. Black and white photos. [From jacket flaps] This is the unvarnished, unauthorized biography of a Hollywood star whose life has been more provocative and improbable than any film in which she starred. Lana Turner's film career started at sixteen. She made a few first rate films as well as some forgettable ones, but for thirty-five years her audience never wavered in its loyalty. Discovered at a Hollywood soda fountain . . . the original sweater girl . . . wartime pinup sweetheart . . .married to a multi-millionaire . . top box office star . . .central figure in one of the era's most lurid murder cases: Lana Turner! Through the years she married and divorced seven men. And rumors about her liaison with the underworld-associated Johnny Stompanato were proven all too true when the latter was fatally stabbed in her home. The public's questions about Lana Turner are legion. Has her career endured despite her explosive private life, or because of it? Was she an unfit mother or just an overindulgent one? Is she a relentless pursuer of men or is she the pursued? Has her phenomenal career been built upon shrewd opportunism - or was she just plain lucky? But the important question is this: What lies behind the Lana Turner image? What inner strengths and resources has she drawn upon to survive and go forward, apparently unfazed by marital failure or tragedy? The authors of this biography have researched their subject in depth. They have spoken with scores of informed people who talked about the Lana Turner they know; and, for the first time, stripped of myth or pressagentry, a portrait emerges of a remarkable woman . . . star and legend.