American Legends: The Life of Lana Turner

*Includes pictures. *Includes Turner's quotes about her own life and career. *Includes a bibliography for further reading. "My life has been a series of emergencies.” – Lana Turner A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history’s most influential figures, but how much of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors’ American Legends series, readers can get caught up to speed on the lives of America’s most important men and women in the time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long forgotten or never known. During the Golden Era of Hollywood, few actresses proved as versatile as Lana Turner, who got her start playing the wholesome innocent young beauty as a teenager before shifting to femme fatale roles and starring in horror classics like Dr.