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Biography: Barry Sullivan
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 | Barry Sullivan was a movie actor who appeared in over 100 movies from the 1930s to the 1980s. Sullivan was a Broadway actor before breaking into films in the 1930s. One of his most memorable roles was playing a movie director in The Bad & the Beautiful.
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Biography: Lana Turner
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Lana Turner was an American actress famed early in her career for tight sweaters & smoldering sensuality & later in her career for sudsy romance films with maximum tragedy & glamorous gowns. The name on her birth certificate, as she stated in her autobiography, was Julia Jean Turner, not Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner as many sources claim. In any case, she was called Judy as a child & became Lana Turner when she became an actress. She was born in Wallace, Idaho & died in Century City, California. Her father was John Virgil Turner, a clerk & gambler who was murdered when she was a child; her mother was Mildred Frances Cowan. Lana Turner reached the height of her fame in the 1940s & 50s. She was discovered at the age of 15 in the Top Hat Cafe in Hollywood by film journalist William R Wilkerson, who introduced her to actor/comedian/talent agent Zeppo Marx. Turner went on to star in numerous films. The actress was nominated for an Academy Award for the 1957 movie Peyton Place.
Posters Of Lana TurnerEditors Choice: Peyton Place, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Second Chorus, View DVDology
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