Description After Betty Grable, but before there was Marilyn, America\'s 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 world\'s most desirable men.
Gable took her to a Honky Tonk and vowed, "Somewhere I\'ll Find You," before their Homecoming reu.
Later, in search of love, she spent a Weekend at the Waldorf before moving to Green Dolphin Street and later to the notorious Peyton Place, she found it during an experiment with an Imitation of Life.
Lana (aka "The Ziegfeld Girl") didn\'t hear The Postman Always Rings Twice because she was in bed with John Garfield.
Tyrone Power--tall, dark, photogenic, and famous--eventually evolved into the greatest love of her life until the Aviator, Howard Hughes, arguably the most psychotic billionaire in the history of Hollywood, flew in to seduce both of them.
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.
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.
Kennedy; and fell for Frank Sinatra, who later caught her in bed with another love goddess, Ava Gardner.
Horny GIs referred to her as "the Girl We\'d Like to Find in Every Port." From the start, her private life was marked with scandal: She aborted Mickey Rooney\'s baby; seduced a young John F.
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.
In her 1937 film, They Won\'t Forget, a 16-year-old Lana, without wearing a brassi re, walked down the street with her boobs bouncing.
Description After Betty Grable, but before there was Marilyn, America\'s 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 world\'s most desirable men
