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Aug 12, 2010 22:43

Don't mind me. Just conducting a little experiment.

The Lifes and Loves of Lana Turner She was an actress in the forties, you'll be forgiven for not knowing that if you've read this book.

picking random pages and random sentence

PAGE 12: Mickey wrote that he was pleasantly suprised that Lana was as "oversexed as I was".

PAGE 32: Lana was dating her co-star in Ziegfield Girk, Jimmy Stewart.

PAGE 40: By now Lana's power over men was well known in Hollywood.

PAGE 43: Lana casually blamed for Carole Lombard's death because sleeping with Clark Gable-without ever actually saying that?

PAGE 44: In any position, Lana suggests she is looking up from a pillow.

PAGE 52: Lana is a lovely, appealing little thing and that mankind was fashioned to make her happy and supreme

PAGE 54: After her divorce from Crane, Lana was seeing so many men it's difficult to put them in perspective.

PAGE 55: Did Lana resume her affair with Frank Sinatra to make Ty Power jealous?

PAGE 95: "I'm leaving. And if you want know where I am. I'm in Palm Springs fucking Lana Turner."

PAGE 128: "She is not even an actress, she is only a trollop."

PAGE 138: His credentials? Aspiring actor/producer and stud.

PAGE 167: Moviegoers paid to see a screen personality, not a great actress.

So. More Loves than Lifes? There's, like, ONE LINE dedicated to noir classic The Postman Always Rings Twice and it's all about her wardrobe at that.

Poor Lana. Youtube just cares about her looks, too, I can't find any decent scenes where she is actually talking or aren't the last scenes in the movie so have dancing instead. Plus, Rita Moreno!

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