20 Startling Secrets About The Stunning Lana Turner – Who Would’ve Been 100 This Year
Lana Turner is considered the epitome of old-school Hollywood glamor. But in contrast, her private life was messy, misfortunate and, on one fateful night, even murderous. In the year that she would have turned 100, here’s a look at 20 things you may not know about the actress who, according to Madonna’s “Vogue,” always gave good face.
Turner’s childhood was far removed from the glitz and glamour she’d later enjoy as a Hollywood star. After losing her father at a young age, the future actress was forced to seek refuge with others while her mom worked 80-hour weeks in a beauty salon to make ends meet. And Turner wasn’t always treated particularly well.
That’s right: during her pre-teen years Turner lived with one particular family in the city of Modesto that she claims “treated her like a servant.” And her diet wasn’t exactly the healthiest, either. The Oscar nominee once recalled living on nothing but milk and cookies for several days a week.
It seems hard to believe now considering her pin-up reputation, but there was a time when Turner wanted to be a nun! Indeed, during her teenage years the future Hollywood star studied at San Francisco’s Convent of the Immaculate Conception. And this appeared to give Turner an idea for her true calling.
Turner had actually been christened as Protestant. But after regularly attending mass with a family with whom she briefly lived, the Ziegfeld Girl actress was allowed to convert to Roman Catholicism by her mother. Of course, having become a star of the silver screen before she reached adulthood, Turner soon abandoned her spiritual ambitions.
