Lana Turner was an actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, who rose to fame in the 1930s with films like The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Bad and the Beautiful and Imitation of Life.

She had a dramatic off-screen life and here are ten facts about her life.

Childhood tragedy

Born on February 8, 1921 in Wallace, Idaho, Lana Turner had a tragedy-filled life.

When she was just 9 years old, her father, Virgil M. Turner, who was a conman and sometime-bootlegger, was murdered after winning money at a card game.

The murder case was never solved.

The discovery story Lana Turner’s discovery story is one of the most famous in Hollywood history.

She was just 16 years old and a junior at Hollywood High School when she skipped class and was spotted by William Wilkerson, the then-publisher of The Hollywood Reporter, while she was having a drink at the Top Hat Malt Shop.

He asked her if she wanted to be in movies, to which she replied, “I don’t know, I’ll have to ask my mother.”

“The Sweater Girl” Turner was given the nickname “The Sweater Girl” after wearing a form-fitting, figure-accentuating sweater in her feature film debut, Mervyn LeRoy’s legal drama They Won’t Forget.

Despite Warner Bros. publicist Irving Fine taking credit for the nickname, Turner hated it, according to her daughter Cheryl Crane.

Multiple marriages Lana Turner was married eight times to seven different men. Her first marriage was to band leader Artie Shaw, who she eloped with in Las Vegas after their first date.

However, the marriage only lasted for four months. After their divorce, Turner found out she was pregnant but had an abortion at the suggestion of her agent and MGM co-founder Louis B. Mayer.

A redo of the second marriage Turner’s second marriage also took place in Las Vegas but had to be redone as her husband, Steve Crane, wasn’t yet divorced from his first wife.

After their annulment, they got remarried and had Turner’s only child, Cheryl, but divorced a year later.

Clark Gable affair Lana Turner was rumored to have had an affair with Clark Gable, with whom she co-starred in several films in the early 1940s.

It was even speculated that Gable’s wife, Carole Lombard, took the fatal plane ride that killed her as she was eager to get home to him after their fight about his affair with Turner.

The “one who got away” Lana Turner had many marriages, but the man she considered the love of her life was someone she never married, actor Tyrone Power.

They began an affair in the late 1940s, but in 1947 Turner learned she was pregnant and had an abortion.

The next year, Power divorced his wife and dumped Turner, then married another actress with whom he had begun an affair.

A kissing lesson In a 2016 interview, Sir Roger Moore, who starred in the costume drama Diane alongside Turner, revealed that she taught him how to kiss properly.

Moore said, “I go in for the kiss, and I dive in. I said, ‘What’s wrong, Lana?’ She says, ‘Sweetheart, when a lady gets to 35, she has to be very careful about this [gesturing to her neck]. So could you give me all that…”

Lana Turner’s relationship with her daughter was tumultuous. Turner had a troubled relationship with her daughter, Cheryl.

When Cheryl was 14, she stabbed Turner’s abusive boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato, to death in the star’s Beverly Hills home.

The case went to trial as a justifiable homicide, and Cheryl was acquitted. The trial was a media circus, with Turner giving testimony on her daughter’s behalf.

Lana Turner died of a heart attack in 1995. Turner continued to act in films for a few more years after the trial, but her career never fully recovered from the scandal.

She died of a heart attack in 1995 at the age of 74, leaving behind a legacy as one of Hollywood’s most captivating and dramatic stars.

“She had that rare combination of beauty, sex appeal, and talent that made her one of the biggest stars of her time,” says film historian Jeanine Basinger.

“But her life was just as fascinating as any of the roles she played on-screen.”