Lana Turner, the Untouchable

Hollywood's reporters, the celebrated gossip columnists Louella Parsons and Hedda Hopper, and a few studio moguls wanted to bury Lana Turner's career a little too quickly following each scandal. It has to be said that she was pretty fair game: married lovers, mafia connections, a certain taste for sado-masochism, destructive alcoholism, a bloody murder and seven failed marriages were just a few of the hallmarks of the private life of Hollywood's most "glamorous" actress of the 40s and 50s. Unalterable, rot-proof and, above all, invincible, Lana Turner was one of Hollywood's most famous actresses and most certainly the most adored by a public that always forgave her her peccadillos. With the blurring between her real life and the parts she played on the screen, she was the best actress of Hollywood's melodramas both in town as on the sound stage. (Illégitime Défense)