Cheryl Crane, LANA: THE MEMORIES, THE MYTHS, THE MOVIES author, daughter: Mr. Media Interview

Summary: Every actor has their own story of discovery, but can anything top cutting class and getting discovered at age 15 in a soda shop? It sounds made up, something out of a movie, and yet that’s exactly how Lana Turner, formerly Julia Jean “Judy” Turner, got her start in Hollywood. Lana was the ultimate personification of the term “movie star”—a world-class beauty who lived a glamorous lifestyle, one that included seven marriages and a murder that would make her and her daughter infamous. In