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Hollywood legend Lana Turner, seen here in a studio portrait from 1950, led a fascinating and often turbulent life both on and off screen. Photo: Silver Screen Collection / Getty Images
Monday, February 8 marks the centenary of Lana Turner’s birth. The pretty young teen from Wallace, Idaho who was scouted at a soda fountain swiftly became the blonde bombshell with the hourglass figure so famous she is synonymous with the term “sweater girl.” But Turner, who was born Julia Jean Turner, proved much more than a famous pinup. The veteran of more than 50 films, Turner had the presence and the talent to hold her own opposite the cream of the crop of leading men in Hollywood’s Golden Age. But it was her scandal-plagued personal life that crashed into the rise of popular culture and our obsession with movie idols that makes for her most compelling and lasting legacy.