Lana Turner: Hearts and Diamonds Take All [Paperback]

After Betty Grable, but before there was Marilyn, Americas penchant for popcorn blondes focused on LANA, the movie star who had it all: Looks to die for, money to burn, the romantic adulation of the world, and lovers who included the worlds most desirable men. This expose of The Ultimate Movie Star, is loaded with information that members of the movie-going public never knew. Tragic, myth-shattering, and uncensored, it focuses on MISS LANA TURNER, the most scandalous (and self-enchanted) of the blonde cult goddesses of the 1940s and beyond.After Betty Grable, but before there was Marilyn, Americas penchant for popcorn blondes focused on LANA, the ultimate movie star. She had it all: Looks to die for, money to burn, the romantic adulation of the world, and lovers who included the worlds most desirable men. In her 1937 film, They Wont Forget, a 16-year-old Lana, without wearing a brassi?re, walked down the street with her boobs bouncing. Censors protested, but when it was shown, America cheered and nicknamed her The Sweater Girl. From there, Lana competed with Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth as the pre-eminent pinup girl (so many men, so little time) of World War II. Horny GIs referred to her as the Girl Wed Like to Find in Every Port. From the start, her private life was marked with scandal: She aborted Mickey Rooneys baby; seduced a young John F. Kennedy; and fell for Frank Sinatra, who later caught her in bed with another love goddess, Ava Gardner. In the early 1940s, after a nationwide campaign promoting the sale of War Bonds, Carole Lombard frantically boarded a small plane headed back to Hollywood, suffering a fiery death when it crashed within 13 minutes of takeoff. The risk she took during that thunderstorm was motivated, it was said, by her obsession with rescuing her husband, Clark Gable, from the amorous clutches of Lana Turner. Tyrone Powertall, dark, photogenic, and famouseventually evolved into the greatest love of her life unl3œ