Lana Turner
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Julia Jean "Lana" Turner was an American actress. Over a career spanning nearly five decades, she achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a film actress, as well as for her highly publicized personal
Turner in a 1940s publicity portrait
Turner at the age of five in Wallace, Idaho
Edward Norris and Turner in They Won't Forget (1937), her feature film debut
Turner with Lew Ayres in These Glamour Girls (1939)
Johnny Stompanato
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John Stompanato Jr. was a United States Marine and gangster who became a bodyguard and enforcer for the gangster Mickey Cohen.
Lana Turner
…1957), the latter for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1958, intense media scrutiny surrounded Turner when her lover, Johnny Stompanato, was stabbed to death by her teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane, during a domestic struggle in their home. Her next film, Imitation of Life (1959), proved…
John Stompanato (front left) during the Pacific War in WWII, with his comrades, Anthony “Duke” Falco (top left), Anthony “Sag” Sylvester (top right),(gathering behind the grave of Pfc. Joseph J. Petillo of Asbury Park, New Jersey. KIA Okinawa. Photo courtesy of the Falco Family of Asbury Park, NJ.
Lana Turner's former home in Beverly Hills where Stompanato was killed in 1958.