Article: The Movie Star, the Gangster Boyfriend, and the Daughter With a Knife

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Lana Turner is one of film noir’s favorite femme fatales, but she found herself in a real life film noir in 1958.

Karina Longworth has a great article about Turner’s life and the incident in 1958 that changed Turner’s and her daughter’s lives forever. Here is a link to that great article over at Slate.com:

http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/you_must_remember_this/2015/12/you_must_remember_this_lana_turner_cheryl_crane_and_johnny_stompanato.html

Here is a great short documentary from the old television series, Mysteries and Scandals, covering Turner’s life.