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| AUTHOR: | Lana Turner |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | G.K. Hall |
| ISBN: | 0816135215 |
| TYPE: | Turner, Lana |
| MEDIA: | Unknown Binding |
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Hollywood's Bombshell Remembers For quite some time, I didn't know what I thought about this book. It baffled me because it alternates between excruciating details about clothes, shoes, and hairstyles, and Lana's heartbreaking stories of love and betryal. Lana Turner was married seven times. The reasons she gives for marrying each of her husbands are about as trivial as the reasons she gives for divrcing them. For instance, she was dating someone, and then Joan Crawdford called her up and said he was HER man. So what does Lana do? She bumps into bandleader Artie Shaw at a party one night, and MARRIES the guy. THEN, even though she had never even met him before, she writes with genuine puzzlement that she didn't know he had been married twice before, or that he was abusive. She leaves him, finds out she is pregnant, and aborts the baby. Exit marriage one. Enter husband #2, Stephen Crane. She marries him on an impulse, finds out that he's still legally married to his first wife, and leaves him, angry and pregnant. She goes back, has the baby, and divorces him. Exit marriage number two. Enter husband #3. Millionare Bob Topping became her third husband, and she writes that she accepted his proposal because- get this- although she did not love him, and he was still married to someone else, "there's something awfully compelling about a big, diamond ring". And on and on. The faces change, but the story's almost exactly the same with each successive husband. The only thing she writes about with poignancy is her various failed attempts at motherhood and her countless miscarriages. She writes about how badly she wanted each pregnancy, yet when she became pregnant by movie idol Tyrone Power (who was still legally married to HIS first wife- surprise, surprise), she aborts that baby because she didn't want to ruin her career. I think Lana Turner wrote this book to prove that she wasn't as shallow as people thought she was. It was apparently lost on her that this book underlined that theory indefinitely.
Very interesting.
I read this when I was 13 and I found it very well written and good