Lana Turner: The Sweater Girl Who Became MGM's Most Glamorous Star — Scandal, Survival, and a Very Hollywood Murder

Podcast: When They Were Making It · Patrick Rankin

Opublikowano: 2026-06-30

On Good Friday, 1958, a man lay dead on a pink bedroom floor in Beverly Hills — a severed aorta, almost no blood, a knife with no fingerprints in the bathroom sink, and the most famous actress in America asking the police chief if she could take the blame. By the time he arrived, the story of what happened that night had already been written. Before she became Hollywood's "Sweater Girl" — before she was the platinum blonde MGM built in a dead woman's image — Lana Turner was Julia Jean Turner, a bootlegger's daughter from a mining town in Idaho, raised...