A pin-up model is a model whose mass-produced pictures and photographs have wide appeal within the popular culture of a society. Pin-up models are usually glamour models , actresses, or fashion models whose pictures are intended for informal and aesthetic display, known for being pinned onto a wall. From the 1940s, pictures of pin-up girls were also known as cheesecake in the U.S.
152-484: Julia Jean " Lana " Turner ( / ˈ l ɑː n ə / LAH -nə ; February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American actress. Over a career spanning nearly five decades, she achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a film actress, as well as for her highly publicized personal life. In the mid-1940s, she was one of the highest-paid American actresses and one of MGM 's biggest stars, with her films earning approximately one billion dollars in 2024 currency for
304-498: A Ph.D. in psychology. Pin-up model The term pin-up refers to drawings, paintings, and photographs of semi-nude women and was first attested to in English in 1941. Images of pin-up girls were published in magazines and newspapers. They were also displayed on postcards, lithographs , and calendars. The counterpart of the pin-up girl is the male pin-up, also known as beefcake , including celebrated actors and athletes such as
456-653: A bestselling novel by James Gould Cozzens . The film became the first in-flight movie to be shown on a regular basis on a scheduled airline flight when TWA showed it to its first-class passengers. In mid-1962, Turner filmed Who's Got the Action? , a comedy in which she portrayed the wife of a gambling addict opposite Dean Martin . In September of that year, Turner and May separated, divorcing shortly after in October. They remained friends throughout her later life. In 1965, she met Hollywood producer and businessman Robert Eaton, who
608-503: A lesbian to her parents, who were both supportive of her. Despite this, Cheryl ran away from home multiple times and the press wrote about her rebelliousness. Worried she was still suffering from the trauma of Stompanato's death, Turner sent Cheryl to the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut . Shortly before the release of Imitation of Life in the spring of 1959, Turner was cast in
760-547: A stillborn baby boy in New York City. In 1949, Turner was to star in A Life of Her Own (1950), a George Cukor -directed drama about a woman who aspires to be a model in New York City. The project was shelved for several months, and Turner told journalists in December 1949: "Everybody agrees that the script is still a pile of junk. I'm anxious to get started. By the time this one comes out, it will be almost three years since I
912-469: A $ 50 weekly contract with Warner Bros. on February 22, 1937 ($ 1,060 in 2023 dollars ). She soon became a protégée of LeRoy, who suggested that she take the stage name Lana Turner, a name she would come to legally adopt several years later. Turner made her feature film debut in LeRoy's They Won't Forget (1937), a crime drama in which she played a teenage murder victim. Though Turner only appeared on screen for
1064-403: A femme fatale spy aboard a ship. The film, released one month after The Prodigal , was a commercial success. MGM then gave Turner the titular role of Diane de Poitiers in the period drama Diane (1956), which had originally been optioned by the studio in the 1930s for Greta Garbo . After completing Diane , Turner was loaned to 20th Century-Fox to headline The Rains of Ranchipur (1955),
1216-538: A few minutes, Wilkerson wrote in The Hollywood Reporter that her performance was "worthy of more than a passing note". The film earned her the nickname of the " Sweater Girl " for her form-fitting attire, which accentuated her bust. Turner always detested the nickname, and upon seeing a sneak preview of the film, she recalled being profoundly embarrassed and "squirming lower and lower" into her seat. She stated that she had "never seen myself walking before… [It was]
1368-546: A glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her critically acclaimed performance in the film noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), a role which established her as a serious dramatic actress. Her popularity continued through the 1950s in dramas such as The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Peyton Place (1957), the latter for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress . In 1958, intense media scrutiny surrounded Turner when her lover Johnny Stompanato
1520-474: A good story. So what happened? The last time I begged for a good story they gave me The Prodigal ." At the time of her contract termination, Turner's films had earned the studio more than $ 50 million. In 1956, Turner discovered she was pregnant with Barker's child, but gave birth to a stillborn baby girl seven months into the pregnancy. In July 1957, she filed for divorce from Barker after her daughter Cheryl alleged that he had regularly molested and raped her over
1672-708: A grandson of tin-plate magnate Daniel G. Reid . Topping proposed to her at the 21 Club in New York City by dropping a diamond ring into her martini, and they married shortly after in April 1948 at the Topping family mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut . Turner's wedding celebrations interfered with her filming schedule for The Three Musketeers , and she arrived to the set three days late. Studio head Louis B. Mayer threatened to suspend her contract, but Turner managed to leverage her box-office draw with MGM to negotiate an expansion of her role in
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#17330863279781824-563: A handful of holdouts still resides and watches over what is left of the town. Police investigating the Welch, Oklahoma murders of Danny and Kathy Freemen and the murders of Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman filed charges containing statements from numerous witnesses and alleged accomplices who stated they had heard rumors that Lauria Bible and Ashley Freeman were in a pit or mineshaft in Picher, or had been threatened by Warren Philip Welch, lead suspect in
1976-506: A lead role in Otto Preminger 's Anatomy of a Murder , but walked off the set over a wardrobe disagreement, effectively dropping out of the production. She was replaced by Lee Remick . Instead, Turner took a lead role as a disturbed socialite in the film noir Portrait in Black (1960) opposite Anthony Quinn and Sandra Dee , which was a box-office success despite bad reviews. Ray Duncan of
2128-405: A lead role in her second musical, Ziegfeld Girl , opposite James Stewart , Judy Garland and Hedy Lamarr . In the film, she portrayed Sheila Regan, an alcoholic aspiring actress based on Lillian Lorraine . Ziegfeld Girl marked a personal and professional shift for Turner; she claimed it as the first role that got her "interested in acting", and the studio, impressed by her performance, marketed
2280-542: A magazine that began in 2011 has both a print and digital version. It was described in 2015 as "the most-liked" pin-up magazine in the world. One of the magazine's mission statements is "to promote and showcase retro and modern pin-up girls." Another well known modern pin-up magazine featuring pin-ups in vintage dress is Retro Lovely. This is the modern day pin-up magazine with the most sold digital and print copies. Within this subculture, there are opportunities to perform in pin-up contests, including one which takes place during
2432-422: A man in love with her sister. Turner later recalled she was surprised about replacing Hepburn, saying: "I'm about the most un-Hepburnish actress on the lot. But it was just what I wanted to do." It was her first starring role that did not center on her looks. In an interview, Turner said: "I even go running around in the jungles of New Zealand in a dress that's filthy and ragged. I don't wear any make-up and my hair's
2584-466: A mess." Nevertheless, she insisted she would not give up her glamorous image. In the midst of filming Green Dolphin Street , Turner began an affair with actor Tyrone Power , whom she considered to be the love of her life. She discovered she was pregnant with Power's child in the fall of 1947, but chose to have an abortion. During this time, she also had romantic affairs with Frank Sinatra and Howard Hughes ,
2736-437: A miner from Montgomery, Alabama . Her mother had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, while her father was of Dutch descent. She was born four days before her mother's 17th birthday. Her parents had first met while her mother was 14 and her father was 24; Mildred was the daughter of a mine inspector and was visiting Picher, Oklahoma , a trip that was taken so her father could inspect the mines there. Mildred's father objected to
2888-610: A mother. Though she wanted multiple children, Turner had Rh-negative blood , which caused fetal anemia and made it difficult to carry a child to term. Turner was urged by doctors to undergo a therapeutic abortion to avoid potentially life-threatening complications, but she managed to carry the child to term. She gave birth to a daughter, Cheryl , on July 25, 1943. Turner's blood condition resulted in Cheryl being born with near-fatal erythroblastosis fetalis . Meanwhile, publicity over Turner's remarriage to Crane led MGM to play up her image as
3040-510: A much-publicized and lucrative recurring guest role in the television series Falcon Crest in 1982, with the series subsequently garnering notably high ratings. She was diagnosed with throat cancer in 1992, and died three years later at the age of 74. Julia Jean Turner was born on February 8, 1921, at Providence Hospital in Wallace, Idaho . She was the only child of Mildred Frances Cowan, who hailed from Lamar, Arkansas , and John Virgil Turner,
3192-572: A musician, and Betrayed , an espionage thriller set in the Nazi -occupied Netherlands; the latter marked Turner's fourth and final film appearance opposite Clark Gable. In The New York Times , Bosley Crowther wrote of Betrayed : "By the time this picture gets around to figuring out whether the betrayer is Miss Turner or Mr. Mature, it has taken the audience through such a lengthy and tedious amount of detail that it has not only frayed all possible tension but it has aggravated patience as well." Upon returning to
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#17330863279783344-404: A plane crash. Meanwhile, the press continued to fuel rumors that Turner and Gable were romantic offscreen, which Turner vehemently denied. "I adored Mr. Gable, but we were [just] friends", she later recalled. "When six o'clock came, he went his way and I went mine." Her next project was Johnny Eager (1941), a violent mobster film in which she portrayed a socialite. James Agee of Time magazine
3496-548: A platform when the magazine Jet (created in 1951) published material related to the African-American community. Jet supported pin-up with their full-page feature called "Beauty of the Week", where African-American women posed in swimsuits. This was intended to showcase the beauty that African-American women possessed in a world where their skin color was under constant scrutiny. It was not until 1965 that Jennifer Jackson became
3648-633: A population of 9,726. Peak population occurred in 1926 with 14,252 residents. The Picher area became the most productive lead-zinc mining field in the Tri-State district, producing over $ 20 billion worth of ore between 1917 and 1947. More than fifty percent of the lead and zinc used during World War I was extracted from the Picher district. At its peak more than 14,000 miners worked the mines and another 4,000 worked in mining services. Many workers commuted by an extensive trolley system from as far away as Joplin and Carthage, Missouri . The population entered
3800-479: A remake of The Rains Came (1939), playing the wife of an aristocrat in the British Raj opposite Richard Burton . The production was rushed to accommodate a Christmas release and was completed in only three months, but it received unfavorable reviews from critics. Meanwhile, Diane was given a test screening in late December 1955, and was met with poor response from audiences. Though an elaborate marketing campaign
3952-564: A reported $ 20,000 in May 1962. A 1962 novel by Harold Robbins entitled Where Love Has Gone and its subsequent film adaptation were inspired by the event. In the wake of negative publicity related to Stompanato's death, Turner accepted the lead role in Ross Hunter 's remake of Imitation of Life (1959) under the direction of Douglas Sirk . She portrayed a struggling stage actress who makes personal sacrifices to further her career. The production
4104-494: A sex symbol in the comedy Slightly Dangerous (1943), with Robert Young , Walter Brennan and Dame May Whitty , in which she portrayed a woman who moves to New York City and poses as the long-lost daughter of a millionaire. Released in the midst of Turner's pregnancy, the film was financially successful but received mixed reviews, with Bosley Crowther of The New York Times writing: "No less than four Metro writers must have racked their brains for all of five minutes to think up
4256-399: A small role portraying an actress posing as a chambermaid. In late 1937, LeRoy was hired as an executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), and asked Jack L. Warner to allow Turner to relocate with him to MGM. Warner obliged, as he believed Turner would not "amount to anything". Turner left Warner Bros. and signed a contract with MGM for $ 100 a week ($ 2,119 in 2023 dollars ). The same year, she
4408-478: A steady decline after the peak in 1926 due to the decrease in mining activity, leaving Picher with only 2,553 by 1960. Mining ceased in 1967 and water pumping from the mines ceased. The contaminated water from 14,000 abandoned mine shafts, 70 million tons of mine tailings, and 36 million tons of mill sand and sludge remained as a huge environmental cleanup problem. As a result of national legislation to identify and remediate such environmentally hazardous sites, in 1983
4560-469: A stodgy, older owner of a roadside diner, who falls in love with a drifter and their desire to be together motivates them to murder her husband. The classic film noir marked a turning point in Turner's career as her first femme fatale role. Reviews of the film, including Turner's performance, were glowing, with Bosley Crowther of The New York Times writing it was "the role of her career". Life magazine named
4712-540: A talent scout while shopping at the Top Hat malt shop in Hollywood . At the age of 16, she was signed to a personal contract by Warner Bros. director Mervyn LeRoy , who took her with him when he transferred to MGM in 1938. She soon attracted attention by playing a murder victim in her screen debut, LeRoy's film They Won't Forget (1937), and she later moved into supporting roles that often cast her as an ingénue . During
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4864-617: A time living in Sacramento and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Following her father's death, Turner lived for a period in Modesto with a family who physically abused her and "treated her like a servant". Her mother worked 80 hours per week as a beautician to support herself and her daughter, and Turner recalled sometimes "living on crackers and milk for half a week". While baptized a Protestant at birth, Turner attended Mass with
5016-406: A way to boost morale during the war. The shape of the lip was also iconic of the 1940s. The lips were painted on to look plumper; a broad outline of the lip was added for roundness. This fuller look is known as the "Hunter's Bow", invented by Max Factor . The pin curl is a staple of the pin-up style, as "women utilized pin curls for their main hair curling technique". Originating in the 1920s from
5168-575: A week after they began dating. The marriage was annulled by Turner four months later upon discovering that Crane's previous divorce had not yet been finalized. After discovering she was pregnant in November 1942, Turner remarried Crane in Tijuana in March 1943. During her early pregnancy, she filmed the comedy Marriage Is a Private Affair , in which she starred as a carefree woman struggling to balance her new life as
5320-437: Is reflected neatly in her distinguished portrayal." Critics and audiences could not help noticing that the plots of Peyton Place and Imitation of Life both seemed to mirror certain parts of Turner's private life, resulting in comparisons she found painful. Both films depicted the troubled, complicated relationship between a single mother and her teenage daughter. During this time, Turner's daughter Cheryl privately came out as
5472-622: The Independent Star-News wrote that Turner "suffers prettily through it all, like a fashion model with a tight-fitting shoe". In November 1960, Turner married her fifth husband, Frederick "Fred" May, a rancher and member of the May department-store family whom she had met at a beach party in Malibu shortly after filming Imitation of Life . Turner moved in with him on his ranch in Chino, California , where
5624-613: The Baxter Springs, Kansas Heritage Center and Museum. In March 2017 the often-photographed Christian church, which was originally a one-room schoolhouse, was also destroyed by fire. Gary Linderman, owner of the Ole Miners Pharmacy, was featured in the May 28, 2007, issue of People magazine in the Heroes Among Us article: "Prescription for Kindness". He vowed to stay as long as there was anyone left who needed him and to be
5776-492: The Dr. Kildare series. This was followed by These Glamour Girls (1939), a comedy in which she portrayed a taxi dancer invited to attend a dance with a male coed at his elite college. Turner's onscreen sex appeal in the film was reflected by a review in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in which she was characterized as "the answer to 'oomph ' ". In her next film, Dancing Co-Ed (1939), Turner
5928-655: The PBS Independent Lens film The Creek Runs Red, which discussed the connection of the people and their desire to leave or stay in the city. Picher was also featured in the Jump the Fence Productions film titled Tar Creek (2009). The film was written, directed, and narrated by Matt Myers. Picher was featured in an episode of Life After People: The Series on the History Channel . The aforementioned tornado
6080-514: The Quapaw nation. The show was conceptualized and is being created by Quentin Madia, Lauren Pelaia, and Alex Knezevic, with Knezevic eventually leaving the production on good terms to pursue independent ventures. Prior to the formal creation and writing of the script and music, the production team visited the town of Picher and were toured around by Rebecca Jim. They also interviewed several former citizens of
6232-521: The St. Petersburg Times writing: "Without Lana Turner, Mr. Imperium ... would be a better picture." During this period, Turner's personal finances were in disarray, and she was facing bankruptcy. Suffering from depression over her career and financial problems, she attempted suicide in September 1951 by slitting her wrists in a locked bathroom. She was saved by her business manager, Benton Cole, who broke down
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6384-421: The "water-waving technique", the hair style of the 1940s consisted of a fuller, gentle curl. The drying technique consists of curling a damp piece of hair, from the end to the root and pin in place. Once the curl is dry, it is brushed through to create the desired soft curl, with a voluminous silhouette. Victory rolls are also a distinctive hairstyle of the pin-up. The Victory roll is curled inward and swept off
6536-478: The 1950s. Following the success of Ziegfeld Girl , Turner took a supporting role as an ingénue in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) – a sanitized remake of the original pre-Code film from a decade earlier – remade as a Freudian -influenced horror film, opposite Spencer Tracy and Ingrid Bergman . MGM had initially cast Turner in the lead, but Tracy specifically requested Bergman for the part. The studio recast Turner in
6688-801: The American pin-up queen of the 1950s, Bettie Page . The American burlesque performer Dita Von Teese is often referred to as a modern pin-up due to her involvement in the revival of American Burlesque, known as Neo-burlesque . Von Teese made an appearance in a biographical film about Bettie Page, Bettie Page Reveals All , where she helps to define pin-up. Katy Perry makes use of the ideas associated with pin-up modeling, and has included these in music videos and costumes. The Victoria's Secret Fashion Show can be comparable to burlesque show, whereas their yearly advent calendar can compare to pin-up in general. The pin-up modeling subculture has produced magazines and forums dedicated to its community. Delicious Dolls ,
6840-401: The April 12, 1958 inquest , described by attendees as "near-riotous". After four hours of testimony and approximately 25 minutes of deliberation, the jury deemed the killing a justifiable homicide . Cheryl remained a temporary ward of the court until April 24, when a juvenile court hearing was held, during which the judge expressed concerns over her receiving "proper parental supervision". She
6992-516: The EPA and the state of Oklahoma agreed to a mandatory evacuation and buyout of the entire township. While some remediation took place in the following quarter century, contamination and other environmental hazards were found to be so severe that the government decided to close Picher and relocate its residents, as reported on April 24, 2006, by Reuters. Due in large part to the removal of large amounts of subsurface material during mining operations, many of
7144-405: The EPA and the state of Oklahoma agreed to a mandatory evacuation and buyout of the entire township. A 2006 Army Corps of Engineers study showed 86% of Picher's buildings (including the town school) were badly undermined and subject to collapse at any time. The destruction in May 2008 of 150 homes by an EF4 tornado accelerated the exodus of the remaining population. On September 1, 2009,
7296-710: The Hislops, a Catholic family with whom her mother had temporarily boarded her in Stockton, California . She became "thrilled" by the ritual practices of the church, and when she was seven, her mother allowed her to formally convert to Roman Catholicism . Turner subsequently attended the Convent of the Immaculate Conception in San Francisco, hoping to become a nun. In the mid-1930s, Turner's mother developed respiratory problems and
7448-534: The Plan was a commitment to accelerate the cleanup. Since 2015, former residents have held Christmas parades in Picher. Picher is 8 miles (13 km) north of Miami, the county seat. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city had a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.7 km ), all of it land. As of the census of 2000, there were 1,640 people, 621 households, and 417 families residing in
7600-550: The Royal Canadian Air Force 427 Lion Squadron had been "adopted" by MGM. Many of the aircraft had dedications or nose art honoring MGM's stars. A Handley-Page Halifax bomber "London's Revenge" DK186 ZL L carried the name of Lana Turner into battle over Germany. In July 1942, Turner met her second husband, actor-turned-restaurateur Joseph Stephen "Steve" Crane , at a dinner party in Los Angeles. The two eloped to Las Vegas
7752-577: The United States in September 1953, Turner married actor Lex Barker , whom she had been dating since their first meeting at a party held by Marion Davies in the summer of 1952. In 1955, MGM's new studio head Dore Schary had Turner star as a pagan temptress in the Biblical epic The Prodigal (1955), her first CinemaScope feature. She was reluctant to appear in the film because of the character's scanty, "atrocious" costumes and "stupid" lines, and during
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#17330863279787904-495: The Viva Las Vegas rockabilly festival. Marilyn Monroe and Bettie Page are often cited as the classic pin-up, however there were many Black women who were considered to be impactful. In the 1920s the most notable black burlesque dancer was Josephine Baker . Dorothy Dandridge and Eartha Kitt were important to the pin-up style of their time by using their looks, fame, and personal success. African-American pin-up gained
8056-527: The Waldorf , a loose remake of Grand Hotel (1932) in which she portrayed a stenographer (a role originated by Joan Crawford ). The film was a box-office hit. After the war, Turner was cast in a lead role opposite John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946), a film noir based on James M. Cain 's debut novel of the same name . She portrayed Cora, an ambitious woman married to
8208-410: The abduction and presumed slayings of the two girls. He admitted having withheld information about the involvement of Warren "Phil" Welch and David Pennington, both of whom have since died without ever having been charged. He was sentenced to 15 years for the crime, with 10 of the years to be spent in lockup. The Oklahoma City sludge metal band, Chat Pile , takes their name from the chat piles in
8360-411: The actor James Dean , the singer Jim Morrison , and the model Fabio . From the early 19th century, when pin-up modeling had "theatrical origins"; burlesque performers and actresses sometimes used photographic business cards to advertise shows. These promotional and business cards could be found backstage in almost every theater's green room , pinned up or placed in "frames of the looking-glasses, in
8512-459: The affair. Stompanato was not easily deterred, and over the course of the following year, they carried on a relationship filled with violent arguments, physical abuse and repeated reconciliations. Turner would also claim that on one occasion he drugged her and took nude photographs of her while unconscious, potentially to use as blackmail. In September 1957, Stompanato visited Turner in London, where she
8664-420: The age of 18 living with them, 50.6% were married couples living together, 12.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 32.7% were non-families. 29.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.58 and the average family size was 3.20. In the city the population was spread out, with 27.1% under
8816-460: The age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 24.0% from 25 to 44, 23.5% from 45 to 64, and 16.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 95.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.0 males. The median income for a household in the city was $ 19,722, and the median income for a family was $ 25,950. Males had a median income of $ 22,321 versus $ 15,947 for females. The per capita income for
8968-628: The airport, where he boarded a plane back to the U.S. On the evening of March 26, 1958, Turner attended the Academy Awards to observe her nomination for Peyton Place and present the award for Best Supporting Actor . Stompanato, angered that he did not attend with her, awaited her return home that evening, whereupon he physically assaulted her. Around 8:00 p.m. on Friday, April 4, Stompanato arrived at Turner's rented home at 730 North Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills. The two began arguing heatedly in
9120-537: The area was designated as part of the Tar Creek Superfund site, along with the similarly contaminated satellite towns of Treece, Kansas , and Cardin, Oklahoma . In 1994, Indian Health Service test results concerning the blood lead levels of Indian children living on the Site indicated that approximately 35 percent of the children tested had concentrations of lead in their blood exceeding 10 micrograms per deciliter,
9272-525: The bathroom door and called emergency medical services. The following year, she began filming her second musical, The Merry Widow . During the shoot, Turner began an affair with her co-star Fernando Lamas , which ended after Lamas physically assaulted her; the incident also caused Lamas to lose his MGM contract upon the production's completion. The Merry Widow proved more commercially successful than Turner's previous musical, Mr. Imperium , despite receiving unfavorable critical reviews. Turner's next project
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#17330863279789424-401: The bedroom, during which Stompanato threatened to kill Turner, her daughter Cheryl and her mother. Fearing that her mother's life was in danger, Cheryl – who had been watching television in an adjacent room – grabbed a kitchen knife and ran to Turner's defense. According to testimony provided by Turner, Stompanato died at the scene when Cheryl, who had been listening to the couple's fight behind
9576-450: The buyouts continued as previously scheduled, with people being assisted in relocation. The city's post office was scheduled to close in July 2009, and the city ceased operations as a municipality on September 1, 2009. By June 29, 2009, all of the residents had been given federal checks to enable them to relocate from Picher permanently. The city is considered to be too toxic to be habitable. On
9728-554: The chat piles and subsurface shafts resulted in the site being included in 1983 in the Tar Creek Superfund site by the US Environmental Protection Agency . The state collaborated on mitigation and remediation measures, but a 1994 study found that 34% of the children in Picher suffered from lead poisoning due to these environmental effects, which could result in lifelong neurological problems. Eventually,
9880-496: The city to go on a boiled water notice. Staff from the Oklahoma Rural Water Association arrived to assist, since the utility's testing equipment was destroyed by the storm. With an emergency generator to supply power, rural water staff had the system running normally only two days after the tornado struck. Given the existing plan to vacate the city, the federal government decided against aid to rebuild homes, and
10032-665: The city was $ 10,938. About 21.1% of families and 25.4% of the population were below the poverty line , including 27.4% of those under age 18 and 30.9% of those age 65 or over. The city was served by the Picher-Cardin Public Schools , which closed in 2009. At that time the municipality was placed in the Quapaw Public Schools . In April 2009, residents voted 55–6 to dissolve the Picher-Cardin school district; it graduated its final class of 11 in May. By 2009
10184-518: The city's structures have been deemed in imminent danger of caving in. On May 10, 2008, Picher was struck by an EF4 tornado . There were six confirmed deaths, possibly including one child, and many other people injured. The tornado first touched down near the Kansas –Oklahoma border in Oklahoma southwest of Chetopa, Kansas , and tracked eastward. It struck Picher, causing extensive damage to 20 blocks of
10336-410: The city, with houses and businesses destroyed or flattened. At least 150 people were injured in Picher alone. The tornado continued eastward, passing just north of Quapaw and Peoria before crossing Interstate 44 into Missouri . Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry sent National Guard troops as well as emergency personnel to assist the hardest hit area in Picher. Loss of power from the tornado forced
10488-412: The city. There is a musical in the process of being created based on the real story of the town. Titled The Picher Project , the story combines real life people, such as Tar Creek waterkeeper Rebecca Jim and Picher-native, and previous Mayor, Orvile "Hoppy" Ray as well as fictional characters based on actual people in order to properly tell the story of the town and the people who lived there, as well as
10640-481: The city. The population density was 734.0 inhabitants per square mile (283.4/km ). There were 708 housing units at an average density of 316.9 per square mile (122.4/km ). The racial makeup of the city was 77.13% White , 13.78% Native American , 0.18% Pacific Islander , 0.12% Asian , 0.06% from other races , and 8.72% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.40% of the population. There were 621 households, out of which 30.9% had children under
10792-445: The closed door, stabbed Stompanato in the stomach when Turner attempted to usher him out of the bedroom. Turner testified that she initially believed Cheryl had punched him, but realized Stompanato had been stabbed when he collapsed and she saw blood on his shirt. Because of Turner's fame and the fact that the killing involved her teenage daughter, the case quickly became a media sensation. More than 100 reporters and journalists attended
10944-626: The corner of Minnesota and Mariposa Streets, on the edge of San Francisco's Potrero Hill and the Dogpatch District , with his left shoe and sock missing. His robbery and homicide were never solved, and his death had a profound effect on Turner. She later said, "I know that my father's sweetness and gaiety, his warmth and his tragedy, have never been far from me. That, and a sense of loss and of growing up too fast." Turner sometimes lived with family friends or acquaintances so that her impoverished mother could save money. They also frequently moved, for
11096-401: The course of their marriage. According to Cheryl, Turner confronted Barker before forcing him out of their home at gunpoint. Weeks after her divorce, Turner began filming 20th Century-Fox's Peyton Place , in which she had been cast in the lead role of Constance MacKenzie , a New England mother struggling to maintain a relationship with her teenage daughter. The film, directed by Mark Robson ,
11248-617: The courtship, but she and John eloped and moved west before settling in Idaho. The family lived in Burke, Idaho , at the time of Turner's birth, and relocated to nearby Wallace in 1925, where her father opened a dry cleaning service and worked in the local silver mines. As a child, Turner was known to family and friends as Judy. She expressed interest in performance at a young age, performing short dance routines at her father's Elks chapter in Wallace. When she
11400-409: The crimes, who told them they would "end up in a pit in Picher like those two girls." Their bodies have never been found, though suspected accomplice Ronnie Dean Busick was arrested in April 2018 for his involvement in the crimes. Busick pleaded guilty July 15, 2020 to being an accessory to first-degree murder in the deaths of Danny and Kathy Freeman, the torching of their home near Welch, Oklahoma, and
11552-404: The culture snobs gang up against her." The role earned Turner a David di Donatello Golden Plaque Award for Best Foreign Actress that year. In late 1968, she began filming the low-budget thriller The Big Cube , in which she portrayed a glamorous heiress being dosed with LSD by her stepdaughter in hopes of driving her insane and receiving the family estate. One critic deemed Turner's acting in
11704-580: The district's enrollment had dropped to a total of 49 students from approximately 343 students years prior. Remaining students were assigned to attend Commerce and Quapaw school districts. In 1984, the local High school football team, the Gorillas, won the Oklahoma Class A Championship. A statue of a Gorilla was dedicated as the Picher-Cardin Memorial, Home of the Gorillas. Picher was featured in
11856-508: The divorce. Her next film project was Latin Lovers (1953), a romantic musical in which Lamas had originally been cast. He was replaced by Ricardo Montalbán . In the spring of 1953, Turner relocated to Europe for 18 months to make two films under a tax credit for American productions shot abroad. The films were Flame and the Flesh , in which she portrayed a manipulative woman who takes advantage of
12008-406: The early 1940s, Turner established herself as a leading lady and one of MGM's top stars, appearing in such films as the film noir Johnny Eager (1941), the musical Ziegfeld Girl (1941), the horror Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), and the romantic war drama Somewhere I'll Find You (1942), the latter being one of several films in which she starred opposite Clark Gable . Her reputation as
12160-415: The face and pinned into place on the top of the head. Soft curls, achieved through the pin curl technique, finish the look of pin-up. As a makeup style, the classic pin-up underwent a revival in modern fashion. The red lip and winged eyeliner made a re-emergence in 2010. Although pin-up modeling is associated with World War II and the 1950s, it developed into a subculture which can be seen represented in
12312-453: The federally recognized Native American nation by that name), and Miami, Oklahoma . In 1913, as the Tri-State district expanded, lead and zinc were discovered on Harry Crawfish's claim, and mining began. A townsite developed overnight around the new workings and was named Picher in honor of O. S. Picher, owner of Picher Lead Company . The city was incorporated in 1918, and by 1920, Picher had
12464-538: The female lead in the World War II-set romantic drama Homecoming (1948), in which she was again paired with Clark Gable, portraying a female army lieutenant who falls in love with an American surgeon (Gable). She was the studio's first choice for the role, but it was reluctant to offer her the part, considering her overbooked schedule. Homecoming was well received by audiences, and Turner and Gable were nicknamed "the team that generates steam". By this period, Turner
12616-504: The feminist aim of changing the rigid, patriarchal terms." It has been argued by some critics that in the early 20th century that these drawings of women helped define certain body images—such as being clean, healthy, and wholesome—and were enjoyed by both men and women, and that as time progressed, these images changed from respectable to illicit. Conversely, female protesters argued that these images were corrupting societal morality and saw these public sexual displays of women as lowering
12768-726: The field were Earle K. Bergey , Enoch Bolles , Gil Elvgren , George Petty , Rolf Armstrong , Zoë Mozert , Duane Bryers and Art Frahm . Notable contemporary pin-up artists include Olivia De Berardinis , known for her pin-up art of Bettie Page and her pieces in Playboy . Maria Buszek the author of Pin-up Grrrls, said that the pin-up girl "has presented women with models for expressing and finding pleasure in their sexual subjectivity". According to Joanne Meyerowitz in "Women, Cheesecake, and Borderline Material," an article in Journal of Women's History , "As sexual images of women multiplied in
12920-520: The film "strained and amateurish", and declared it "one of her poorest performances". In April 1969, Turner filed for divorce from Eaton after four years of marriage upon discovering he had been unfaithful to her. Weeks later, on May 9, 1969, she married Ronald Pellar , a nightclub hypnotist whom she had met at a Los Angeles disco. According to Turner, Pellar (also known as Ronald Dante or Dr. Dante) falsely claimed to have been raised in Singapore and to have
13072-434: The film as featuring her in "the best role of the biggest picture to be released by the industry's biggest company". The film's high box-office returns elevated Turner's profitability, and MGM gave her a weekly salary raise to $ 1,500 as well as a personal makeup artist and trailer ($ 32,622 in 2023 dollars ). After completing the film, Turner and co-star Garland remained lifelong friends, and lived in houses next to one another in
13224-603: The film its "Movie of the Week" in April 1946, and noted that both Turner and Garfield were "aptly cast" and "take over the screen, [creating] more fireworks than the Fourth of July". Turner commented on her decision to take the role: I finally got tired of making movies where all I did was walk across the screen and look pretty. I got a big chance to do some real acting in The Postman Always Rings Twice , and I'm not going to slip back if I can help it. I tried to persuade
13376-445: The film, as well as a salary increase amounting to $ 5,000 per week ($ 68,227 in 2023 dollars ). The Three Musketeers went on to become a box-office success, earning $ 4.5 million ($ 61,403,875 in 2023 dollars ), but Turner's contract was put on temporary suspension by Mayer after production finished. After the release of The Three Musketeers , Turner discovered she was pregnant; in early 1949, she went into premature labor and gave birth to
13528-573: The first African American to be published in Playboy as Playmate of the Month. 1990 marked the first year that Playboy ' s Playmate of the Year was an African-American woman, Renee Tenison . Some people believe there is a lack of representation in the media of Black women as pin-up models, even though they were just as influential to the construction of the style. Historically, Black women in pin-up are still not as common as White women pin-ups. However,
13680-399: The first of four films in which she would star opposite Clark Gable . The Turner-Gable films' successes were often heightened by gossip-column rumors about a relationship between the two. In January 1942, she began shooting her second picture with Gable, titled Somewhere I'll Find You ; however, the production was halted for several weeks after the death of Gable's wife, Carole Lombard , in
13832-500: The first time [I was] conscious of my body." Several years after the film's release, Modern Screen journalist Nancy Squire wrote that Turner "made a sweater look like something Cleopatra was saving for the next visiting Caesar ". Shortly after completing They Won't Forget , she made an appearance in James Whale 's historical comedy The Great Garrick (1937), a biographical film about British actor David Garrick , in which she had
13984-399: The joints of the gas-burners, and sometimes lying on top of the sacred cast-case itself." According to historian Maria Elena Buszek, "To understand both the complicated identity and the subversive nature of the 19th-century actress, one must also understand that the era's views on women's potential were inextricably tied to their sexuality, which in turn was tied to their level of visibility in
14136-467: The last day, all the final residents met at the school auditorium to say goodbye. As of November 2010, it was reported that Picher still had "one business and six occupied houses." Starting in January 2011, almost all remaining commercial structures were scheduled to be demolished. Gary Linderman, owner of the Ole Miners Pharmacy, said he would stay until the last resident left. The municipality of Picher
14288-546: The last one out of the city. He died on June 9, 2015, at the age of 60 from a sudden illness. Meanwhile, the cleanup continues. On September 17, 2019, the EPA, in cooperation with the state of Oklahoma and the Quapaw Nation, released the Final Tar Creek Strategic Plan to advance the cleanup of the Tar Creek Superfund site. The EPA indicated while great progress had been made, much work was yet to be done, and
14440-426: The latter of which lasted for 12 weeks in late 1946. Turner's next film was the romantic drama Cass Timberlane , in which she played a young woman in love with an older judge, a role for which Jennifer Jones , Vivien Leigh and Virginia Grey had also been considered. As of early 1946, Turner was set for the role, but schedules with Green Dolphin Street almost prohibited her from taking it, and by late 1946, she
14592-633: The latter type was the Gibson Girl , a representation of the New Woman drawn by Charles Dana Gibson . "Because the New Woman was symbolic of her new ideas about her sex, it was inevitable that she would also come to symbolize new ideas about sexuality." Unlike the photographed actresses and dancers generations earlier, art gave artists the freedom to draw women in many different ways. The 1932 Esquire "men's" magazine featured many drawings and "girlie" cartoons but
14744-458: The level of lead in the blood the Centers for Disease Control considers to be a health concern. In August 1994, to address the threat of lead exposure to children, EPA began sampling soils at high-access areas, such as day cares, schoolyards, and other areas where children congregate. The sampling detected significant concentrations of lead, cadmium, and other heavy metals in surface soils. Eventually,
14896-413: The magazine-without adverts and free of charge was sent to American troops stationed overseas and in domestic bases." The Vargas Girls were adapted as nose art on many World War II bomber and fighter aircraft ; Generally, they were not seen negatively or as prostitutes, but mostly as inspiring female patriots that were helpful for good luck. Among the other well-known American artists specializing in
15048-540: The midst of her marriage to Shaw, she starred in We Who Are Young , a drama in which she played a woman who, against their employer's policy, marries her coworker. In 1940, Turner appeared in her first musical film, Two Girls on Broadway , in which she received top billing over established co-stars Joan Blondell and George Murphy . A remake of The Broadway Melody , the film was marketed as featuring Turner's "hottest, most daring role". The following year, she had
15200-589: The noses of U.S. fighter planes, bearing the nickname "Tempest Turner". In June 1942, she embarked on a 10-week war bond tour throughout the western United States with Gable. During the tour, she began promising kisses to the highest war bond buyers; while selling bonds at the Pioneer Courthouse in Portland, Oregon , she sold a $ 5,000 bond to a man for two kisses, and another to an elderly man for $ 50,000. Arriving to sell bonds in her hometown of Wallace, Idaho , she
15352-425: The pin-up originates back from the 1940s. Due to the shortages of materials during World War II, the period of makeup is considered the "natural beauty" look. The U.S. was immersed in war-time economy , which put distribution restrictions on consumer goods. General rationing was supported; women applied mild amounts of products. Pin-up style makeup products consisted of: In the 1950s, the overall look consisted of
15504-405: The plan and showed up on the set with a gun, threatening her and Connery. Connery answered by grabbing the gun out of Stompanato's hand and twisting his wrist, causing him to run off the set. Turner and Armstrong later returned with two Scotland Yard detectives to the rented house where she and Stompanato were staying. The detectives advised Stompanato to leave and escorted him out of the house and to
15656-406: The poor reception for A Life of Her Own , MGM attempted to rebrand Turner by casting her in musicals. The first, Mr. Imperium , released in March 1951, was a box-office flop , and had Turner starring as an American woman who is wooed by a European prince. "The script was stupid," she recalled. "I fought against doing the picture, but I lost." It earned her unfavorable reviews, with one critic from
15808-456: The popular culture, women participated actively in constructing arguments to endorse as well as protest [against] them." As early as 1869, women have been supporters and opponents of the pin-up. Female supporters of early pin-up content considered these to be a "positive post-Victorian rejection of bodily shame and a healthy respect for female beauty." Additionally, pin-up allows for women to change their everyday culture. The models "succeed in
15960-420: The public sphere: regardless of race, class or background, it was generally assumed that the more public the woman, the more 'public,' or available, her sexuality." Famous actresses in early-20th-century film who were sexuality fantasized were both drawn, photographed and put on posters to be sold for personal use. Among the celebrities who were considered sex symbols , one of the most popular early pin-up girls
16112-482: The rags-to-riches fable ... Indeed, there is cause for suspicion that they didn't even bother to think." Critic Anita Loos praised Turner's performance in the film, writing: "Lana Turner typifies modern allure. She is the vamp of today as Theda Bara was of yesterday. However, she doesn't look like a vamp. She is far more deadly because she lets her audience relax." In August 1944, Turner divorced Crane, citing his gambling and unemployment as primary reasons. Turner
16264-594: The recent revival of pin-up style has propelled many Black women today to be interested and involved with. Making works based on the classic pin-up look to create their own standards of beauty. In Jim Linderman's self-published book, Secret History of the Black Pin Up , he describes the lives and experiences of African-American pin-up models. Picher, Oklahoma Picher is a ghost town and former city in Ottawa County , northeastern Oklahoma , United States. It
16416-408: The red lip and was often paired with rosy cheeks. Eyeliner became bold and began to be more commonly used to make the eye appear larger. Natural eyebrows were embraced, as opposed to the thin brows of the 1920s and '30s. In the 1940s, brows were shaped and clean but filled in with a pencil to appear fuller. Lipstick "turned into a symbol of resilient femininity in the face of danger" and was seen as
16568-426: The release of Another Time, Another Place , and the film was met with poor box-office receipts and a lackluster critical response. Stompanato's family sought a wrongful death suit of $ 750,000 in damages against both Turner and her ex-husband, Steve Crane. In the suit, Stompanato's son alleged that Turner had been responsible for his death, and that her daughter had taken the blame. The suit was settled out of court for
16720-835: The rest of the town's buildings were scheduled to be demolished by the end of the year. One of the last vacant buildings, which had housed the former Picher mining museum, was destroyed by arson in April 2015. Its historical archives and artifacts had already been shipped to the Dobson Museum in Miami, Oklahoma by that point. Picher is among a small number of locations in the world (such as Gilman, Colorado ; Centralia, Pennsylvania ; and Wittenoom, Western Australia ) to be evacuated and declared uninhabitable due to environmental and health damage caused by mining. The closest towns to Picher, other than nearby fellow ghost towns Cardin , Treece and Douthat , are Commerce , Quapaw (the headquarters of
16872-436: The set from mobster Johnny Stompanato , using the name "John Steele". Stompanato had close ties to the Los Angeles underworld and gangster Mickey Cohen , which he feared would dissuade her from dating him. He pursued Turner aggressively, sending her various gifts. Turner was "thoroughly intrigued" and began casually dating him. After a friend informed her of who Stompanato actually was, she confronted him and tried to break off
17024-467: The shoot struggled to get along with co-star Edmund Purdom , whom she later described as "a young man with a remarkably high opinion of himself". Variety deemed the film "a big-scale spectacle ...End result of all this flamboyant polish, however, is only fair entertainment." Turner was next cast in John Farrow 's The Sea Chase (1955), an adventure film starring John Wayne , in which she portrayed
17176-468: The shop, she was spotted by William R. Wilkerson , publisher of The Hollywood Reporter . Wilkerson was attracted by her beauty and physique, and asked her if she was interested in appearing in films, to which she responded: "I'll have to ask my mother first." With her mother's permission, Turner was referred by Wilkerson to the actor/comedian/talent agent Zeppo Marx . In December 1936, Marx introduced Turner to film director Mervyn LeRoy , who signed her to
17328-676: The sister of a poor woman romanced by a wealthy man, and Dramatic School (1938), in which she portrayed Mado, a troubled drama student. In the former, she was billed as the "Kissing Bug from the Andy Hardy film". Upon completing Dramatic School , Turner screen-tested unsuccessfully for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939). She was then cast in a supporting part as a "sympathetic bad girl" in Calling Dr. Kildare (1939), MGM's second entry in
17480-479: The smaller role, though she was still given top billing. While the film was financially successful at the box office, Time magazine panned it, calling it "a pretentious resurrection of Robert Louis Stevenson 's ghoulish classic ... As for Lana Turner, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast ... they are as wooden as their roles." Turner was then cast in the Western Honky Tonk (1941),
17632-467: The stand in the final (with Keir Dullea ) courtroom scene, her face resembling a dust bowl victory garden, it's the most devastating denouement since Barbara Fritchie poked her head out the window." Kaspar Monahan of the Pittsburgh Press lauded her performance, writing: "Her performance, I think, is far and away her very best, even rating Oscar consideration in next year's Academy Award race, unless
17784-428: The standards of womanhood, destroying their dignity, reducing them to mere objects to pleasure men and therefore harmful to both women and young adolescents. Pin-up modeling has been described as a subculture that is invested in promoting positive body images and a love for one's sexuality, "pin-up would also find ways to... encourage the erotic self-awareness and self expression of real women". The classic style of
17936-424: The state of Oklahoma officially dis-incorporated the city of Picher, which ceased official operations on that day. The population plummeted from 1,640 at the 2000 census to 20 at the 2010 census . The federal government proceeded to conduct buyouts of remaining properties. As of January 2011, six homes and one business remained, their owners having refused to leave at any price. Except for some historic structures,
18088-500: The story erroneously has her discovery occurring at Schwab's Pharmacy , which Turner claimed was the result of a reporting error that began circulating in articles published by columnist Sidney Skolsky . By Turner's own account, she was a junior at Hollywood High School when she skipped a typing class and bought a Coca-Cola at the Top Hat Malt Shop located on the southeast corner of Sunset Boulevard and McCadden Place. While in
18240-501: The studio during her 18-year contract with them. Turner is frequently cited as a popular culture icon due to her glamourous persona and a screen legend of the Golden Age of Hollywood . She was nominated for numerous awards . Born to working-class parents in Idaho , Turner spent her childhood there before her family relocated to California . In 1936, at the age of 15, she was discovered by
18392-403: The studio to give me something different. But every time I went into my argument about how bad a picture was, they'd say, "well, it's making a fortune". That licked me. The Postman Always Rings Twice became a major box office success, which prompted the studio to take more risks on Turner, casting her outside of the glamorous sex-symbol roles for which she had come to be known. In August 1946, it
18544-466: The styles of some celebrities and public figures. Pamela Anderson was considered the "perennial pin-up" due to decades' worth of modeling for Hugh Hefner 's Playboy magazine. The American singer Lana Del Rey , whose style is comparable to that of the classic pin-up model, has performed a song called "Pin Up Galore". Beyoncé has recorded a song titled "Why Don't You Love Me," which pays tribute to
18696-409: The town, such as Orville Ray's son. The musical has had workshop performances at Dixon Place, BarnArts, and 54 Below , as well as a virtual performance of a of couple songs using the non-profit theatre company The Dare Tactic to promote the songs and gain feedback on the show. Most recently, on April 30, 2023, Media and Pelaia directed a workshop of the show at The College of New Jersey with members of
18848-506: The two spontaneously decided to get married. Their marriage only lasted four months, but was highly publicized, and led MGM executives to grow concerned over Turner's "impulsive behavior". In the spring of 1940, after the two had divorced, Turner discovered she was pregnant and had an abortion . In contemporaneous press, it was noted she had been hospitalized for "exhaustion". She would later recall that Shaw treated her "like an untutored blonde savage, and took no pains to conceal his opinion". In
19000-653: The two took care of horses and other animals. The following year, she made her final film at MGM with Bob Hope in Bachelor in Paradise (1961), a romantic comedy about an investigative writer (Hope) working on a book about the wives of a lavish California community; the film received a mostly positive critical reception. Upon completing filming, Turner collected the remaining $ 92,000 from her pension fund with MGM. The same year, she starred in By Love Possessed (1961), based on
19152-503: The year's biggest successes, and the biggest of Turner's career; by opting to receive 50% of the film's earnings rather than receiving a salary, she earned more than two million dollars. Imitation of Life made more than $ 50 million in box office receipts. Reviews were mixed, although Variety praised her performance, writing: "Turner plays a character of changing moods, and her changes are remarkably effective, as she blends love and understanding, sincerity and ambition. The growth of maturity
19304-601: Was Betty Grable , whose poster was ubiquitous in the lockers of G.I.s during World War II . In Europe, prior to the First World War, the likes of "Miss Fernande" (who some identify as Fernande Barrey ) were arguably the world's first pin-ups in the modern sense. Miss Fernande displayed ample cleavage and full frontal nudity, and her pictures were cherished by soldiers on both sides of the First World War conflict. Other pin-ups were artwork that depicted idealized versions of beautiful or attractive women. An early example of
19456-422: Was a box-office success, and her appearance in it as a flirtatious high school student convinced studio head Louis B. Mayer that Turner could be the next Jean Harlow , a sex symbol who had died six months before Turner's arrival at MGM. Mayer helped further Turner's career by giving her roles in several youth-oriented films in the late 1930s, such as the comedy Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938) in which she played
19608-504: Was a major national center of lead and zinc mining for more than 100 years in the heart of the Tri-State Mining District . Decades of unrestricted subsurface excavation dangerously undermined most of Picher's town buildings and left giant piles of toxic metal -contaminated mine tailings (known as chat ) heaped throughout the area. The discovery of cave-in risks, groundwater contamination and health effects associated with
19760-421: Was adapted from Grace Metalious ' best-selling novel of the same name. Released in December 1957, Peyton Place was a major blockbuster success, which worked in Turner's favor as she had agreed to take a percentage of the film's overall earnings instead of a salary. She also received critical acclaim, with Variety noting that "Turner looks elegant" and "registers strongly", and, for the first and only time, she
19912-461: Was advised by her doctor to move to a drier climate, upon which the two moved to Los Angeles in 1936. Her hair was dark, messy, uncombed. Her hands were trembling so she could barely read the script. But she had that sexy clean quality I wanted. There was something smoldering underneath that innocent face. Turner's discovery is considered a show-business legend and part of Hollywood mythology among film and popular cultural historians. One version of
20064-600: Was also featured on an episode of the Weather Channel's Storm Stories . Picher was also featured in the premiere episode of Forgotten Planet: Abandoned America on the Discovery Channel (along with Pripyat, Ukraine ) in a story of two cities abandoned due to industrial disasters. In April 2015, Picher was featured in a segment on the National Geographic Channel called "The Watch", in which one of
20216-657: Was among 250 film notables listed by the Hollywood Democratic Committee as supporting the re-election of Democratic Party incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1944 presidential election. In 1945, she co-starred with Laraine Day and Susan Peters in Keep Your Powder Dry , a war drama about three disparate women who join the Women's Army Corps . She was then cast as the female lead in Week-End at
20368-407: Was announced she would replace Katharine Hepburn in the big-budget historical drama Green Dolphin Street (1947), a role for which she darkened her hair and lost 15 pounds. The film was produced by Carey Wilson , who insisted on casting Turner based on her performance in The Postman Always Rings Twice . In the film, she portrayed the daughter of a wealthy patriarch who pursues a relationship with
20520-494: Was at the zenith of her film career, and was not only MGM's most popular star, but also one of the ten highest-paid women in the United States, with annual earnings of $ 226,000. In late 1947, Turner was cast as Lady de Winter in The Three Musketeers , her first Technicolor film. Around this time, she began dating Henry J. "Bob" Topping Jr., a millionaire socialite and brother of New York Yankees owner Dan Topping , and
20672-472: Was crafted to promote the film, it was a box-office flop, and MGM announced in February 1956 that it was opting not to renew Turner's contract. Turner gleefully told a reporter at the time that she was "walking around in a daze. I've been sprung. After 18 years at MGM, I'm a free agent ...I used to go on a bended knee to the front office and say, please give me a decent story. I'll work for nothing, just give me
20824-560: Was critical of co-star Robert Taylor 's performance and noted: "Turner is similarly handicapped: Metro has swathed her best assets in a toga, swears that she shall become an actress, or else. Under these adverse circumstances, stars Taylor and Turner are working under wraps." At the advent of US involvement in World War II , Turner's increasing prominence in Hollywood led to her becoming a popular pin-up girl , and her image appeared painted on
20976-408: Was difficult for Turner given the recent events of her personal life, and she suffered a panic attack on the first day of filming. Her co-star Juanita Moore recalled that Turner cried for three days after filming a scene in which Moore's character dies. When she returned to the set, "her face was so swollen, she couldn't work", Moore said. Released in the spring of 1959, Imitation of Life was among
21128-424: Was filming Another Time, Another Place , co-starring Sean Connery . Their meeting was initially happy, but they soon began fighting. Stompanato became suspicious when Turner would not allow him to visit the set and, during one fight, he violently choked her. To avoid further confrontation, Turner and her makeup artist, Del Armstrong, called Scotland Yard in order to have Stompanato deported. Stompanato got wind of
21280-574: Was given first billing portraying Patty Marlow, a professional dancer who enters a college as part of a rigged national talent contest. The film was a commercial success, and led to Turner appearing on the cover of Look magazine. In February 1940, Turner garnered significant publicity when she eloped to Las Vegas with 28-year-old bandleader Artie Shaw , her co-star in Dancing Co-Ed . Though they had only briefly known each other, Turner recalled being "stirred by his eloquence", and after their first date
21432-455: Was greeted with a banner that read "Welcome home, Lana", followed by a large celebration during which the mayor declared a holiday in her honor. Upon completing the tour, Turner had sold $ 5.25 million in war bonds. Throughout the war, Turner continued to make regular appearances at U.S. troop events and area bases, though she confided to friends that she found visiting the hospital wards of injured soldiers emotionally difficult. During World War II,
21584-580: Was last on the screen, in The Three Musketeers . I don't think it's healthy to stay off the screen that long." Although unenthusiastic about the screenplay, Turner agreed to appear in the film after executives promised her suspension would be lifted upon doing so. A Life of Her Own was among the least successful of Cukor's films, receiving unfavorable reviews and low box-office sales. On May 24, 1950, Turner left her handprints and footprints in cement in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre . In response to
21736-633: Was loaned to United Artists for a minor role as a maid in The Adventures of Marco Polo . Her first starring role for MGM was scheduled to be an adaptation of The Sea-Wolf , co-starring Clark Gable , but the project was eventually shelved. Instead, she was assigned opposite teen idol Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in the Andy Hardy film Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). During the shoot, Turner completed her studies with an educational social worker, allowing her to graduate high school that year. The film
21888-435: Was most famous for its " Vargas Girls ". Prior to World War II, Vargas Girls were praised for their beauty and less focus was on their sexuality. However, during the war, the drawings transformed into women playing dress-up in military drag and drawn in seductive manners, like that of a child playing with a doll. Vargas Girls became so popular that from 1942 to 1946, owing to a high volume of military demand, "9 million copies of
22040-568: Was nearly recast. Production of Cass Timberlane was exhausting for Turner, because it was shot in between retakes of Green Dolphin Street . Cass Timberlane earned Turner favorable reviews, with Variety noting: "Turner is the surprise of the picture via her top performance thespically. In a role that allows her the gamut from tomboy to the pangs of childbirth and from being another man's woman to remorseful wife, she seldom fails to acquit herself creditably." In August 1947, immediately upon completion of Cass Timberlane , Turner agreed to appear as
22192-399: Was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress . Though grateful for the nomination, Turner would later state that she felt it was not "one of my better roles". In January 1958, Paramount Pictures released The Lady Takes a Flyer , a romantic comedy in which Turner portrayed a female pilot. While shooting the film the previous spring, she had begun receiving phone calls and flowers on
22344-607: Was officially dissolved on November 26, 2013. By March 2014, standing abandoned buildings included the Picher-Cardin High School building, a Christian church, the mining museum, and a handful of mercantile buildings, as well as numerous abandoned houses. The Picher Mining Field Museum, which had been housed in the former Tri-State Zinc and Lead Ore Producers Association building, was destroyed by arson in April 2015. The museum archives had previously been sent to Pittsburg State University , and other artifacts had been sent to
22496-571: Was opposite Kirk Douglas in Vincente Minnelli 's The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), a drama focusing on the rise and fall of a Hollywood film mogul, in which Turner portrayed an alcoholic movie star. The Bad and the Beautiful was both a critical and commercial success, and earned her favorable reviews. A little over a week before the film's release in December 1952, Turner divorced her third husband, Bob Topping. She later claimed Topping's drinking problem and excessive gambling as her impetus for
22648-477: Was stabbed to death by her teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane , during a domestic struggle in their home. Her next film, Imitation of Life (1959), proved to be one of the greatest commercial successes of her career and her starring role in Madame X (1966) earned her a David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress. She spent most of the 1970s in semi-retirement, making her final film appearance in 1980. She accepted
22800-613: Was ten years her junior, through business associates. The two married in June of that year at his family's home in Arlington County, Virginia . In 1966, Turner had her last major starring role in the courtroom drama film Madame X , based on the 1904 play by Alexandre Bisson , in which Turner portrayed a lower-class woman who marries into a wealthy family. A review in the Chicago Tribune praised her performance, noting: "when she takes
22952-422: Was three, she performed an impromptu dance routine at a charity fashion show in which her mother was modeling. The Turner family struggled financially and relocated to San Francisco when she was six years old, after which her parents separated. On December 14, 1930, her father won some money at a traveling craps game; he stuffed his winnings in his sock and headed home, but was later found bludgeoned to death on
23104-498: Was ultimately released to the care of her grandmother, and was ordered to regularly visit a psychiatrist alongside her parents. Though Turner and her daughter were exonerated of any wrongdoing, public opinion on the event was varied, with numerous publications intimating that Turner's testimony at the inquest was a performance; Life magazine published a photo of Turner testifying in court along with stills of her in courtroom scenes from three of her films. The scandal also coincided with
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