I just can't believe that there was a time when the legend Lana Turner was on a tv show after the golden age, in our world, it seems absolutely surreal!
I remember when she appeared on "Falcon Crest." It was a very big deal at the time - she hadn't made a movie since about 1965 or 1966. I watched, everyone watched. Then her character was written out rather suddenly and the gossip mags were plastered with stories about how the producers felt she was too demanding. Jane Wyman was interviewed and said "she thinks it's still 1944 in Hollywood" and criticized her for expecting limo service, roses in dressing room, etc. I don't think Lana did much more TV after that. I remember it all like yesterday but it was so long ago! Our whole world just went away...
@John Edwards - That's interesting, I think you're probably right. I don't remember Ava being on the show but during those years there was always buzz about somebody being considered. Maybe she was one of those or I just don't remember...
I may be older, but I cherish seeing these golden age stars on TV back in the day. Lana Turner, Jimmy Stewart, Hank Fonda, Loretta Young! Wonderful memories
Iam a 90s kid so I didn’t know who she was until that Friday morning in my university library when I stumbled upon her book. I read it and fell in love with her. Immediately started to google her movies and again fell in love with her performances. She is now one of my favorite actresses.
@Rahul vinal Narayan. Amazing, just a walk through the library and you see her book and that happens. Funny how things are. Lana lead quite a life. But in the end although I don't agree with one thing she said on the Donohue Show, I love her. She's a true Hollywood class act. You'll never see them like that anylonger. Now they're all tattooed up with clothing left nothing to the imagination, plastic surgery etc. Rest in Peace dear sweet Lana, always remembered and never forgotten❤️🙏
Lana turner was truly a phenomenal actress. Imitation of life is 1 of my favorite movies. The other movie Lana turner starred in madame x. Is another favorite of. Mine. She was a class act.
@@trevorjennings721 Fine. Thank you. But I don't usually respond to comments on UA-cam. There are so many scammers out there, trying to rob people of their hard earned retirement. Just between you and me, I always put a curse on those folks. Not even directly. It happens spontaneously. As soon as someone attempts to scam me, the curse automatically takes affect. As if by Divine intervention. You have a good day now. And be careful out there.
@@gregoryfall9856 When???? When did Lana Turner fall down ANY stairs???? Do you mean that she had a stunt double in a movie that took Lana's " fall " down some stairs???
This is true. Now days thanks to Entertainment Tonight and the scandal tabloids we know all about the immorality of those ladies. ( if you want to call them that ! )
True. I was only born in 1965, but I saw this interview in 1982 (at 17 y/o) because I liked watching Carson in those days and I enjoyed here movies on the later show at night. Beautiful actor and great work.
I miss them both! Lana was my idol whom I actually got to meet and be friends with, closer towards the end of her life. She was a doll! Always known for her beauty (and rightfully so), but she truly was a sweet woman with a wicked sense of humor! I grew up watching Joan in the 80’s. She too, was amazing! Two classics. We will never have such glamorous stars and good television ever again. It’s a shame!
Lovely! You were very blessed to be her friend. I bet she never mentioned her intense love affair with the legend Ava Gardner. Lana's own experience with women enabled her to be a great supporter of her daughter who is a lesbian and who has been with the same woman for many years.
After watching a couple of her book promoting interviews I can see how scripted the questions and answers were. Joan did go off script when they brought up Heddy Lamar which was refreshing to hear. In general stars of that era were very protective of their image and Lana was no exception. She keeps up that wall between her public and private self. It is probably for the best. I wouldn't want a few million people that I've never met examining every detail of my life. I like that she doesn't trash the dignity of her ex-lovers. She's wrong about the studio system though. It turned Marylin Monroe and Judy Garland into drug addicts and covered up a lot of people's crimes. Women, unlike men, were booted out of the studio when they hit their 30s. Hepburn was smart enough to buy the rights to a hit Broadway play. That allowed her to pick the studio, director, role she wanted to play and her co-star. I think she was one of the few who could turn the tables on the studio system. Joan Crawford was dumped when she hit 40 and was told her best days as an actress were long gone. She signed on for a film with another studio the next year and it was a huge success that earned her an Oscar. When the studio was ready to dump an actress they put them in poorly written films with low budgets to ruin their careers so that other studios wouldn't hire them after their contract ran out. I think women benefitted the most from the collapse of the studio system. Child stars had it even worse. Many movie stars came from horrible circumstances. Mickey Rooney's childhood was horrible, Lana Turner missed a lot of meals after her dad was murdered, Marylin Monroe's mom was a bride at 15 and had to be institutionalized when Marylin was a teen. She never knew her father. Very few of these people grew up in a nuclear family. Very few knew anything about money. Shirley Temple's parents were scammed out of her wages because neither one of them had a high school education. The ones who started in Vaudeville never knew what it was like to live in a stable home. Child support, public housing and food stamps didn't exist and many of them were the family's sole bread winner before they were teens. Chaplin's dad abandoned him when he was 2. He was put in a workhouse from the age of 7. His mother died of syphilis when he was 9. He was then put in the custody of his father that he barely knew. Two years later his father died of cirrhosis of the liver at 38. Taken as a group their lives were a horror show. Turner's bosom was her life saver. I find that when people don't talk about their childhood it's because there is nothing pleasant to talk about. Barbara Stanwyck's mom died when she was 4 and 2 weeks later her dad left to work on the Panama Canal and never returned. Her and an older brother were raised by an elder sister who died at age 45. Afterwards Barbara and her brother were shuttled to a number of foster homes. She quit school at age 14 to become a filing clerk. They may have looked glamorous on the screen but their lives usually were not.
@@rachelarmel7547 Lana's dad died when she was young. But she had a mom that loved her very much, painful for her but consoling to have such a devoted mom
Absolutely true. This is why they were all overworked drugged sexually abused and/or casting couched or gigolos. They had nothing else really. It happened even when they had a great deal to offer. The exploitation is part of this grimy world. Their coordination, distinctive voices and dancing singing or acting became immediately noticed by talent hawk eyed scouts who often were the first to start selling them. They all had classes on how to act like posh people or cowboys or mysterious sex symbols. Much of it all was an act versus what their more natural delivery was. Yet what does it matter? A lot yet no one cared. Welcome to USA Hollyweird.
Hedy Lamarr, who Lana say was not a good actor, although beautiful, was an extreme clever supersmart inventor, totally forgot today. Among many things, also used in wifi, she developed a system to control and steer torpedos. Lamarr outlived Lana Turner and died 20 yrs ago.
Yes, she is remembered! The fabulous documentary (with her sons contribution), about her concentrates on her brain, not her beauty. And she was a real wizard all her life. I know we aren't discussing her looks, which she always said overshadowed her intellect and her achievements, but, oh my goodness, just as Lana said, she was an absolutely spectacular beauty, quite the most amazing star in terms of looks and in her heyday.
She truly was a beautiful lady. Who cares if Lana's voice wasn't as velvety as years before? Maybe she did smoke. Estelle Winwood smoked three packs a day and was still a beautiful lady in her late, late years...95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101 years old
Hedy was a very limited actress with a bad personality but was absolutely flawless facially. The head make-up man at MGM said Hedy looked better without make-up but he said you had to do it for the cameras. In any event Hedy is considered by many people to be the most beautiful woman who ever was in Hollywood and really stood out compared to the other glamour girls of the era.
@@wildbill47304 The problem was, she wasn't all that without makeup or little of it. She was not a natural beauty. Look at her in Ecstasy and you will realize she was nothing to write home about. The makeup wizards in Hollywood turned her into a goddess.
@@ValleyoftheRogue Odd that you should say that when as the look she was famous for was already there before she arrived in America the centered parted hair. She apparently was infamous for not wearing any makeup in her personal life but for cheap lipstick. She was apparently one of those people who was just naturally beautiful which is why Louis B. Mayer took a real chance when he signed her in 1937; she didn't speak English.
That walk out on the stage ... those old Hollywood stars .. sure knew how to make an entrance.. and Lana still had it Giving us the postman ring twice vibes. 😂🙌🏽🔥
I'm reading Lana's book, it's great. I've just read the part about the chewing gum with Clark Gable, such a funny story. This clip is so glamorous, even the 'more to come' still is gorgeous. I wish it were still like this.
Requirements now for actors are will you get buck naked, simulate and or do real sex on screen and, of course, they all must do a same sex scene one time in their career. Great scripts, great directors, actors who keep their clothes on are passe'.
Such a beautiful woman.. I’ve always loved her in Imitation To Life 😍.. Oh how I miss Joan. I believe that if the studios still had control of their stars we wouldn’t have the mess we have today
MusicJunkie 75 I just Imitation of Life today, i regoogled Lana and then this video appeared. Golden Age of Hollywood on TCM, and a laptop to learn about the stars of that era fascinates me. The glamour shots from the babes of that day were so great. Sad to hear of their demises and diseases. Imitation of Life was the perfect role for Lana with all the heartache and parallels
My Father and I saw this episode of the Tonight show when it originally aired. He was a big fan of Miss Turner's. I love her in Imitation of Life and Madame X. The point being, my Dad and I really enjoyed watching Miss Rivers interview Miss Turner. What a pleasure to see this again after so many, many years. Thank you so much for this post. Dad, I love you!
No it wasn’t! She was 49-yrs old when she had her first major facelift. By her own admission., If this was filmed the same year, then this interview is post surgery. Not pre.
Lana Turner is from a time when femininity was not a bad word. Her movie characters, with beauty, class and that feminine charm are a long gone era. Sad really. RIP Lana, youre a true legend of Hollywoods Golden age.
Exactly, my have times change. I still like for the men to be chivalrous. It's a sign of mutual respect. I believe that it's alright for the lady to cater to her man. There's times when your man doesn't mind for his lady to take charge. 😊
@@joshuaalexander6296 that's so great to hear. I pray that the right young lady will love you and appreciate you for being a gentleman. Keep your head up and I pray that all is well with you and yours during this time of coronavirus pandemic quarantine.
@@portiamatthews9654actresses today are so cheap. They talk openly about sex and have no discretion. They dress cheaply as well, necklines down to yesterday’s breakfast. Way too short skirts, tattooes, really really vulgar. There has been a major degradation of culture.
I'm 63. I watched this today Feb 2024 and just found it so refreshing. The ladies exude warmth, class and humor. I like to remember my Mom having these qualities, may she Rest in Peace. My Mom was funny and she was really a down to earth lady, not pretentious in the least and very empathetic. She looked good when she dressed up. I think no matter how old you are, you will always have a special place in your 💜 for your Mom and Dad too. 🎉❤
@ 9:44 and all the way towards the end of the Video. Wow,The Eloquent Beauty Miss Lana Turner and Joan Rivers,were saying that the Glamorous Days were almost over. Well,fast forwarded to now in the 21st Century. The Glamorous,Eloquent,Elegant and Dapper Days are Loooooooooong GONE.😔🤦🏾♀️
I saw her when I was seven years old and never forgot the moment. I was visiting my grandparents in L.A. My uncle owned the Ambassador Hotel and we went to every black tie opening to hear the latest singing sensation. I forget who it was that night. It wasn't someone who became very famous. I wore a poofy satin blue dress with a big bow in back and felt like a movie star myself. My grandparents let me wander around the huge room where the event took place. It was studded with round tables where famous people dined while watching the show. I got lost in a corridor of the hotel and came upon a press room, with a big sign saying "LANA TURNER" (she was being interviewed). The door was ajar a tiny bit and I peeked in and saw her, swathed neck to knee in a silver lame clinging sheath dress. Literally, she looked like a star: lit up and twinkling. I had never seen anyone so beautiful. Even as a little girl I understood that this was "glamour."
I came to this video due to its mention in a Hedy Lamarr bio I just finished. Authored by Stephen Shearer. Excellent. Very balanced, warts-and-all. Well, I was disgusted by Lana Turner's casual dismissal of Hedy Lamarr's acting chops and I wanted to hear the context and her tone. My disgust stands. Don't think she can act? Ha! Watch The Strange Woman or any number of her other films. Marvelous actress who wasn't always steeered in the right direction by Mr. Mayer. Shame on Lana (who, as we all know by now, couldn't hold a candle to Hedy intellect-wise) for dismissing a living (Hedy was just 67 as of this airing) contemporary in such a manner.
I was a Teenager Lady in the 1980s. Victoria Principle was well loved,during that time. Because of her starring Role on Dallas. I was also mesmerize by Victoria Principle. She was definitely a Glamorous Lady🌹 Morgan Fairchild was a Beauty too🌹
Was Lana supposed to just get up and walk out at the end? “I got up without falling”. LOL. Hilarious. Usually the guests stay seated until they go to a commercial. Lana was great, an old time glamour girl and married seven times to boot, and one of her husbands was Artie Shaw. Those band leaders were the rock stars of their day., all the gals wanted them.
@@thebluerobin Your point is? Back then people didn't live together before marriage. She said that she would not have married as many times if she had lived with most of her husbands beforehand. Better to get out of bad and unhappy marriages then to stay with someone and be miserable.
Did I just see Lana Turner follow Sarah Purcell? What the hell? Does everyone remember all those classic Sarah Purcell movies from the golden age of Hollywood? Aside from that insult, this was a spectacular interview. Thanks again, Alan, for all of the gems you share.
The star treatment could teach you little lady like affectations, but it could never make a person classy - and certainly not self-reflective. The dig on Hedy Lamarr's acting was the pot calling the kettle black. And after seven marriages, you have to ask if you aren't part of the problem.
Paul Miller Hedy Lamar was the smartest woman in the golden age. she was actually an inventor of something the Americans used against the Germans in WW11 -I’m sorry I just don’t remember what it was. She was married to a German officer and fled to America.
Hedy Lamarr invented a radio signal that couldn't be intercepted. It was a very important piece of technology. It was then used 50 years later in cellular (mobile) phones. We can all thank Ms Lamarr for that. She didn't receive credit until a year before she died.
Can't take my eyes off of Lana! The embodiment of old Hollywood glamour. Love her in Imitation of Life, Peyton Place, Madame X. Sure that she had an army of make up people. stylists, and hairdressers, but she was a star, so look like one! What's wrong with that? But she also had that shine that the biggest stars of the Golden Era of Hollywood had. I got a question. Why do the older female stars, even now, don't get parts in big movies, unless you are Streep? Give me somebody with wisdom and smarts and class anyday!
I wish that she would have brought up what John Garfield was like to work with in the "Postman Always Rings Twice". I mean, there had to be SOME chemistry to work with him. I am in the middle of the interview and paused it,, but she just has to bring up Garfield. Gable is fine, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah. But come on, Garfield had that extra something and she forgets to bring him up?
M Perry I've read that Turner did not get along with Garfield as she wasn't a big fan of his method acting. She also didn't find him sexually attractive so found building chemistry with him hard work considering the film and the role they played.
BUT Cheryl wrote that he attended several of her birthday parties, so they couldn't have parted enemies. Turner spoke well of Garfield in later years, but they didn't get on too well during the making of the film. Turner was always prouder of "Postman" than any of her films, and I think later she recognized his incredible contribution to the picture.
Garyb3397 oh I'm glad to know this. Lana didn't seem like the kind of lady to hold a grudge. Sounds like it was just during the making of the picture that there was an issue. :)
The lady that invent WiFi. Legendary life, 6 marriages, was recognized her achievement in 84... moved me in tears by watching her documentary. Much much respect!👍👍👍👍👍
I am 51 years of aged younger lady. I love the Golden Aged of Hollywood Elegant Ladies and the Dapper Men. Miss Lana Turner was absolutely Stunning Elegant. And she just reels you in towards her in all of her Movies🌹 Nowadays in this 21st Century the Glamorous,Eloquent and Elegant Days are gone for ever😔🤦🏾♀️
Yes she was 60 but we don’t know about her surgeries. Most aren’t like JR. They don’t talk about what they’ve had done. I’m 62. And only my surgeon knows for sure. :)
This was delightful. Joan did a great interview, and I much preferred it to Donahue’s interview (although I always liked Phil). A woman to woman conversation, with questions about her career and some dishing :-) There was mutual respect. Lana was graceful, bright, and elegant, with a sense of humor. Just saw her in a movie with Donna Reed last evening - she was wonderful! Green Dolphin Street.
Joan was never beautiful. Even she said so. Joan just knew how to make herself up and she loved fashion and knew how to dress. She was funny and a great businesswoman and comedienne…. but she was far from beautiful.
My mistake: she was 61 or 62 then. I liked Lana but how unkind of her to say that Hedy Lamarr (who was still alive, incidentally) could not act. Lana was never a great actress herself.
Yes no questions, she looked great, but even in all interviews she was acting and that is what made her famous, controversial, 7 marriages and 1 abortion
Lana Turner! Wow, I am a fan now. And I love her humor “This is beautiful downtown...Burbank?” How many times has she had to say that? LOL they don’t make stars like that anymore
never read her book......but i have read enough to know Turner leaves out a lot...she was the only star to have a bed in her dressing room...never played around with people she worked with...lol..good one ...and after Sinatra stopped seeing her....she just about acted like she never met him..."no man leaves lana turner"......was her cry...
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I just can't believe that there was a time when the legend Lana Turner was on a tv show after the golden age, in our world, it seems absolutely surreal!
Elizabeth Taylor did General Hospital! Donna Reed did Dallas! Lana was on Falcon Crest. Magical!
I remember when she appeared on "Falcon Crest." It was a very big deal at the time - she hadn't made a movie since about 1965 or 1966. I watched, everyone watched. Then her character was written out rather suddenly and the gossip mags were plastered with stories about how the producers felt she was too demanding. Jane Wyman was interviewed and said "she thinks it's still 1944 in Hollywood" and criticized her for expecting limo service, roses in dressing room, etc. I don't think Lana did much more TV after that. I remember it all like yesterday but it was so long ago! Our whole world just went away...
@John Edwards - That's interesting, I think you're probably right. I don't remember Ava being on the show but during those years there was always buzz about somebody being considered. Maybe she was one of those or I just don't remember...
Ava was in Knots Landing for a brief time playing William Devane’s mother.
I may be older, but I cherish seeing these golden age stars on TV back in the day. Lana Turner, Jimmy Stewart, Hank Fonda, Loretta Young! Wonderful memories
Iam a 90s kid so I didn’t know who she was until that Friday morning in my university library when I stumbled upon her book. I read it and fell in love with her. Immediately started to google her movies and again fell in love with her performances. She is now one of my favorite actresses.
@Rahul vinal Narayan. Amazing, just a walk through the library and you see her book and that happens. Funny how things are. Lana lead quite a life. But in the end although I don't agree with one thing she said on the Donohue Show, I love her. She's a true Hollywood class act. You'll never see them like that anylonger. Now they're all tattooed up with clothing left nothing to the imagination, plastic surgery etc. Rest in Peace dear sweet Lana, always remembered and never forgotten❤️🙏
Remember when Joan Rivers hosted, the ratings went up.
It's the only time I would stay up and watch.
Johnny Carson sucked.
Lana turner was truly a phenomenal actress. Imitation of life is 1 of my favorite movies. The other movie Lana turner starred in madame x. Is another favorite of. Mine. She was a class act.
Did this segment actually go on for almost 16 minutes without a commercial? If that is true--you can really tell it was 1982!
Hello Peggy, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the virus??
Thank you. I am fine, virus free !
@@peggypeggy4137 that’s good to know..
So tell me Peggy, hope you’re having a nice and a wonderful day today??
Joan Rivers' book "Enter Talking" is a brilliant autobiography.
Hello Martha, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the virus??
Lots of bucks but a good woman she was Joan as well rip to the two
G lA M O U R O U SSSSSSSSSS❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I always appreciate when the star acknowledges the crowd. So often they don't. Thank you, Ms. Turner.
Hello Tanya, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the virus??
@@trevorjennings721 Fine. Thank you. But I don't usually respond to comments on UA-cam. There are so many scammers out there, trying to rob people of their hard earned retirement. Just between you and me, I always put a curse on those folks. Not even directly. It happens spontaneously. As soon as someone attempts to scam me, the curse automatically takes affect. As if by Divine intervention. You have a good day now. And be careful out there.
Great point Tanya.
Lana is the true definition of a *STAR* ...and she earned it! : )
She sure did! And NOBODY could fall down stairs like the LADY LANA!!!
@@gregoryfall9856 When???? When did Lana Turner fall down ANY stairs???? Do you mean that she had a stunt double in a movie that took Lana's " fall " down some stairs???
@@gregoryfall9856 It's pronounced ' *Lahna* ' , as she corrected Bryant Gumbel on the Today Show
Joan was an underrated interviewer, she could get people to talk.
Yes she was!! I could watch her interview for days.
You DO understand Joan was MURDERED? RIGHT?
Yes and she was genuinely interested in in her guests and what they have to say .
Yes and underrated as a comedian
I loved her in Imitation of Life!!
Ever see Madame X and Portrait In Black? Omg they are really great. And Peyton Place :)
To me, that was the only thing she did that was any good.
@@jusme164She was a real glamorous movie star
Me too.
Lana Tuner had the most gorgeous eyes, so grateful and poised.
It's been bugging who she reminds me of... I may be wrong but David Bowie had similar beautiful eyes
Joan brings out lana's humour and lana looks fab.
I think Lana was a nice person.
@inside outside upside downside did you know her personally?
Ladies like Lana are from another age.
This is true. Now days thanks to Entertainment Tonight and the scandal tabloids we know all about the immorality of those ladies. ( if you want to call them that ! )
Lana was from another age. Hollywood's Golden era.
Robert Anderson Or due to mass media and mediocre education they mostly speak like nitwits
Yes, Hollywood is boring now;
True. I was only born in 1965, but I saw this interview in 1982 (at 17 y/o) because I liked watching Carson in those days and I enjoyed here movies on the later show at night. Beautiful actor and great work.
I miss them both! Lana was my idol whom I actually got to meet and be friends with, closer towards the end of her life. She was a doll! Always known for her beauty (and rightfully so), but she truly was a sweet woman with a wicked sense of humor! I grew up watching Joan in the 80’s. She too, was amazing! Two classics. We will never have such glamorous stars and good television ever again. It’s a shame!
Just out of curiosity, how did you get to meet and become friends with the likes of Lana Turner? Sounds fascinating as she’s one of my favs.
Lovely! You were very blessed to be her friend.
I bet she never mentioned her intense love affair with the legend Ava Gardner.
Lana's own experience with women enabled her to be a great supporter of her daughter who is a lesbian and who has been with the same woman for many years.
That is the Star!!!! Beautiful lady. And actress.
After watching a couple of her book promoting interviews I can see how scripted the questions and answers were. Joan did go off script when they brought up Heddy Lamar which was refreshing to hear. In general stars of that era were very protective of their image and Lana was no exception. She keeps up that wall between her public and private self. It is probably for the best. I wouldn't want a few million people that I've never met examining every detail of my life. I like that she doesn't trash the dignity of her ex-lovers. She's wrong about the studio system though. It turned Marylin Monroe and Judy Garland into drug addicts and covered up a lot of people's crimes. Women, unlike men, were booted out of the studio when they hit their 30s. Hepburn was smart enough to buy the rights to a hit Broadway play. That allowed her to pick the studio, director, role she wanted to play and her co-star. I think she was one of the few who could turn the tables on the studio system. Joan Crawford was dumped when she hit 40 and was told her best days as an actress were long gone. She signed on for a film with another studio the next year and it was a huge success that earned her an Oscar. When the studio was ready to dump an actress they put them in poorly written films with low budgets to ruin their careers so that other studios wouldn't hire them after their contract ran out. I think women benefitted the most from the collapse of the studio system. Child stars had it even worse. Many movie stars came from horrible circumstances. Mickey Rooney's childhood was horrible, Lana Turner missed a lot of meals after her dad was murdered, Marylin Monroe's mom was a bride at 15 and had to be institutionalized when Marylin was a teen. She never knew her father. Very few of these people grew up in a nuclear family. Very few knew anything about money. Shirley Temple's parents were scammed out of her wages because neither one of them had a high school education. The ones who started in Vaudeville never knew what it was like to live in a stable home. Child support, public housing and food stamps didn't exist and many of them were the family's sole bread winner before they were teens. Chaplin's dad abandoned him when he was 2. He was put in a workhouse from the age of 7. His mother died of syphilis when he was 9. He was then put in the custody of his father that he barely knew. Two years later his father died of cirrhosis of the liver at 38. Taken as a group their lives were a horror show. Turner's bosom was her life saver. I find that when people don't talk about their childhood it's because there is nothing pleasant to talk about. Barbara Stanwyck's mom died when she was 4 and 2 weeks later her dad left to work on the Panama Canal and never returned. Her and an older brother were raised by an elder sister who died at age 45. Afterwards Barbara and her brother were shuttled to a number of foster homes. She quit school at age 14 to become a filing clerk. They may have looked glamorous on the screen but their lives usually were not.
Fascinating information. Thank you for posting this. It really puts things into perspective! So much history that people are unaware of.
@@rachelarmel7547 Lana's dad died when she was young. But she had a mom that loved her very much, painful for her but consoling to have such a devoted mom
Absolutely true. This is why they were all overworked drugged sexually abused and/or casting couched or gigolos. They had nothing else really. It happened even when they had a great deal to offer. The exploitation is part of this grimy world. Their coordination, distinctive voices and dancing singing or acting became immediately noticed by talent hawk eyed scouts who often were the first to start selling them. They all had classes on how to act like posh people or cowboys or mysterious sex symbols. Much of it all was an act versus what their more natural delivery was. Yet what does it matter? A lot yet no one cared. Welcome to USA Hollyweird.
Where did you come up with some of this crap. Would you like some of this said about you.
Cary Grant bought out his contract. 😉
Hedy Lamarr, who Lana say was not a good actor, although beautiful, was an extreme clever supersmart inventor, totally forgot today. Among many things, also used in wifi, she developed a system to control and steer torpedos. Lamarr outlived Lana Turner and died 20 yrs ago.
Yes, she is remembered! The fabulous documentary (with her sons contribution), about her concentrates on her brain, not her beauty. And she was a real wizard all her life. I know we aren't discussing her looks, which she always said overshadowed her intellect and her achievements, but, oh my goodness, just as Lana said, she was an absolutely spectacular beauty, quite the most amazing star in terms of looks and in her heyday.
It's true. Heddy was a terrible actress, I own Samson and Delilah and laugh constantly at her acting. She was very very smart though.
Mentioned at 12:28, for context.
I have such a soft spot for Hedy Lamarr. She’s so charming in Come Live With Me and she seemed very personable and down to earth
Hedy stole the screen with every appearance.
She looks great....I love her in Imitation of Life
Two great legends together and both sadly missed.
I concur.
Hedy Lamarr was not only beautiful.
She invented the technology that gave us WiFi , GPS, and Bluetooth.
No TESLA did.
@roberturich1813 The great Tesla came up with the concept, but it was Lamarr and others who developed it.
She truly was a beautiful lady.
Who cares if Lana's voice wasn't as velvety as years before? Maybe she did smoke.
Estelle Winwood smoked three packs a day and was still a beautiful lady in her late, late years...95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101 years old
Estelle Winwood wow love her too!!!
Estelle my middle name. Most people don't know that name. 62. Both my g-mas name.
I really thought Lana would name Ava Gardner as the most beautiful actress from the studio era but Hedy is just gorgeous.
Hedy was a very limited actress with a bad personality but was absolutely flawless facially. The head make-up man at MGM said Hedy looked better without make-up but he said you had to do it for the cameras. In any event Hedy is considered by many people to be the most beautiful woman who ever was in Hollywood and really stood out compared to the other glamour girls of the era.
@@wildbill47304 The problem was, she wasn't all that without makeup or little of it. She was not a natural beauty. Look at her in Ecstasy and you will realize she was nothing to write home about. The makeup wizards in Hollywood turned her into a goddess.
@@ValleyoftheRogue Odd that you should say that when as the look she was famous for was already there before she arrived in America the centered parted hair. She apparently was infamous for not wearing any makeup in her personal life but for cheap lipstick. She was apparently one of those people who was just naturally beautiful which is why Louis B. Mayer took a real chance when he signed her in 1937; she didn't speak English.
This woman exudes glamour....this is her in real life and the glamour is real and wonderful.
I love how she expresses herself!
That walk out on the stage ... those old Hollywood stars .. sure knew how to make an entrance.. and Lana still had it Giving us the postman ring twice vibes. 😂🙌🏽🔥
Yes! she did! Glamorous,and classy!
🔥❤️🔥
I'm reading Lana's book, it's great. I've just read the part about the chewing gum with Clark Gable, such a funny story. This clip is so glamorous, even the 'more to come' still is gorgeous. I wish it were still like this.
I could just listen to Joan Rivers babble and talk all day, I just love her New York Brooklyn accent!
And she was really pretty and never believed it. I liked her a lot.
@@TheMrssanderson hello Karen, how are you doing today, hope you’re fine and safe from the virus??
A real yenta
I remember seeing Joan Rivers in Las Vegas when I was young... my face actually hurt from laughing so hard during her concert. She was amazing.
She's SOO thin!
Stunning lady to the end. Now that was a "STAR!"
"I will not do trash," that's 75% of the scripts out there today.
Lana was too old by that time, but I think Natalie Wood and Kim Novak may have walked out early. in 1969 when the shitty scripts started happening.
Nowadays,the Television & Movies are full of TRASH. The Glamorous & Dapper Movies Gentlemen and Starlets are gone for ever🤦🏾♀️
they all do trash.
Boy she did plenty of trash or should I say mostly trash!
Requirements now for actors are will you get buck naked, simulate and or do real sex on screen and, of course, they all must do a same sex scene one time in their career.
Great scripts, great directors, actors who keep their clothes on are passe'.
Such a beautiful woman.. I’ve always loved her in Imitation To Life 😍.. Oh how I miss Joan. I believe that if the studios still had control of their stars we wouldn’t have the mess we have today
MusicJunkie 75 I just Imitation of Life today, i regoogled Lana and then this video appeared. Golden Age of Hollywood on TCM, and a laptop to learn about the stars of that era fascinates me. The glamour shots from the babes of that day were so great. Sad to hear of their demises and diseases. Imitation of Life was the perfect role for Lana with all the heartache and parallels
My Father and I saw this episode of the Tonight show when it originally aired. He was a big fan of Miss Turner's. I love her in Imitation of Life and Madame X. The point being, my Dad and I really enjoyed watching Miss Rivers interview Miss Turner. What a pleasure to see this again after so many, many years. Thank you so much for this post. Dad, I love you!
Dave Fuller imitation of life for the win
You and your Dad sound like a couple of class acts. -gal
Golden age of Hollywood created the illusion of beautiful classy beautiful women... Hedy Lamaar documentary is fascinating
Joan looks good right here , this was before the plastic surgeries.
David Allen I thought the same
Exactly.
David Allen Was just thinking the same thing. Can really see Melissa. Just blonde. 😊
No it wasn’t! She was 49-yrs old when she had her first major facelift. By her own admission., If this was filmed the same year, then this interview is post surgery. Not pre.
As much as Joan put herself down she actually was a pretty good looking kady.
Lana Turner is from a time when femininity was not a bad word. Her movie characters, with beauty, class and that feminine charm are a long gone era. Sad really. RIP Lana, youre a true legend of Hollywoods Golden age.
Exactly, my have times change. I still like for the men to be chivalrous. It's a sign of mutual respect. I believe that it's alright for the lady to cater to her man. There's times when your man doesn't mind for his lady to take charge. 😊
I’m only 24 and I feel exactly the same way
@@joshuaalexander6296 that's so great to hear. I pray that the right young lady will love you and appreciate you for being a gentleman. Keep your head up and I pray that all is well with you and yours during this time of coronavirus pandemic quarantine.
Pete Salvano So true
@@portiamatthews9654actresses today are so cheap. They talk openly about sex and have no discretion. They dress cheaply as well, necklines down to yesterday’s breakfast. Way too short skirts, tattooes, really really vulgar. There has been a major degradation of culture.
Joan Rivers is so gorgeous here! Such a shame that we lost both these wonderful women!
Why is it a shame? You expect them to live in to there 100s?
You cannot live forever Joan was 82 in good health unfortunately her death was not necessary at that time
I'm 63. I watched this today Feb 2024 and just found it so refreshing. The ladies exude warmth, class and humor. I like to remember my Mom having these qualities, may she Rest in Peace. My Mom was funny and she was really a down to earth lady, not pretentious in the least and very empathetic. She looked good when she dressed up. I think no matter how old you are, you will always have a special place in your 💜 for your Mom and Dad too. 🎉❤
She was beautiful when she was young and beautiful when she ages so gracefully.
RIP .
Joan Rivers was pretty and SHE aged very well too...
RIP Joan.
I love Lana & I've read her book a few times! So happy that I came across this interview!
I wish she could've commented on my favorite actor in one of my favorite movies, John Garfield in The Postman Always Rings Twice.
Lana was drop dead gorgeous!!!
Lana's voice and laugh❤️🙌
Now, this is a LEGEND!
@ 9:44 and all the way towards the end of the Video. Wow,The Eloquent Beauty Miss Lana Turner and Joan Rivers,were saying that the Glamorous Days were almost over. Well,fast forwarded to now in the 21st Century. The Glamorous,Eloquent,Elegant and Dapper Days are Loooooooooong GONE.😔🤦🏾♀️
Damn. What a classy dame.
Joan Rivers is so fun to watch! Classy, polite, yet raunchy 🤗
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I saw her when I was seven years old and never forgot the moment. I was visiting my grandparents in L.A. My uncle owned the Ambassador Hotel and we went to every black tie opening to hear the latest singing sensation. I forget who it was that night. It wasn't someone who became very famous. I wore a poofy satin blue dress with a big bow in back and felt like a movie star myself. My grandparents let me wander around the huge room where the event took place. It was studded with round tables where famous people dined while watching the show. I got lost in a corridor of the hotel and came upon a press room, with a big sign saying "LANA TURNER" (she was being interviewed). The door was ajar a tiny bit and I peeked in and saw her, swathed neck to knee in a silver lame clinging sheath dress. Literally, she looked like a star: lit up and twinkling. I had never seen anyone so beautiful. Even as a little girl I understood that this was "glamour."
Martha Woodworth that’s amazing!!! I was so sad the hotel was tore down. I think they should’ve kept it as a monument.
@@osandoval5335 Yes, I felt the same. It was gorgeous inside.
You should write a book about your experiences
@@abbyroad5289 Karyn, thank you. I am a writer, by the way, and am writing a memoir as well as novels. Much appreciate your comment. It helps!
Wow Lana! Don't hold your feelings back about Ms Hedy Lamarr! She couldn't act?!! Obviously some Studio boss thought so!!! 😘
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Two of the most interesting women of their eras. Thank you ladies. Its like two opposites and now besties. Lol, class and style of each their own.
Ok, I'm going hunting for this book...Joan sold me. Lol
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Great interview with Lana Turner, they just don't make them like this anymore, Classy!...I so much love Joan Rivers, I miss her so much!
Melissa looks just like Joan when she was that age before she's all that plastic surgery
Lana in white is the epitome of the ultimate, iconic Hollywood vamp. She looks amazing.
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she is so pretty in black
Ita and Black is a color ,it just depends on how you want to define color.
Victor R. Nevertheless, it has to be called something
I came to this video due to its mention in a Hedy Lamarr bio I just finished. Authored by Stephen Shearer. Excellent. Very balanced, warts-and-all.
Well, I was disgusted by Lana Turner's casual dismissal of Hedy Lamarr's acting chops and I wanted to hear the context and her tone. My disgust stands.
Don't think she can act? Ha! Watch The Strange Woman or any number of her other films. Marvelous actress who wasn't always steeered in the right direction by Mr. Mayer. Shame on Lana (who, as we all know by now, couldn't hold a candle to Hedy intellect-wise) for dismissing a living (Hedy was just 67 as of this airing) contemporary in such a manner.
Late night entertainment back then was entertainment, now everything is trash with all the politics and woke bs!
Bring back Johnny Carson!
That was when woman were beautiful and had class.
I need closed caption for deaf pls
You can't just say they were beautiful and classy. You have to put down the women of today ... which makes you look like a grumpy old man.
Michael Lamon
And now take a long, hard look at the men today....
Why don’t they have class and style?
Men lost their class a long time before women take a good look at yourself
Flenif2247 great point
A truly great beauty.
I reckon after a few martinis at Dan Tana's the truth would have come out. No affair with Gable? Like hell..
Omg she's gorgeous
OMG you are gorgeous Mark! ;-)
DEBaker lol
omG what the hell
They seems to get along very well together. Cheryl Crane told in her recent book about Lana that her mother loved Joan Rivers!
I loved Lana in Falcon Crest
Yes that was the show
@@kellylynneden1977yes loved falcon crest so much. I was obsessed with it in the 80s as a teen.
RIP Lana Turner, a true lady in every sense of the word
Lana always seemed nice!
Wow! I hope I look that good when I am up there in age! She looks so beautiful!
Fabulous Exit 💕💗💕 They Don't Make 'Em Like That Anymore!!!
Her movies were great. They don't seem to have actresses like her now a days. Most movies now do' no have a good story just special affects mostly.
Audience: Clap for Victoria Principle and doesn't clap for Morgan Fairchild.
I was a Teenager Lady in the 1980s. Victoria Principle was well loved,during that time. Because of her starring Role on Dallas. I was also mesmerize by Victoria Principle. She was definitely a Glamorous Lady🌹 Morgan Fairchild was a Beauty too🌹
Was Lana supposed to just get up and walk out at the end? “I got up without falling”. LOL. Hilarious. Usually the guests stay seated until they go to a commercial. Lana was great, an old time glamour girl and married seven times to boot, and one of her husbands was Artie Shaw. Those band leaders were the rock stars of their day., all the gals wanted them.
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Isn't she still beautiful?...inside and out. I love her!
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Lana Turner wuz and is the most beautiful respectful and classy woman I've seen in the movie industry. so much class. I luv her. RIP Ms Lana Turner.
Portia Matthews , check out Lee Remick, my personal fav from the Golden Era
Respectful???? The woman was married 7 times !
@@thebluerobin exactly he cudnt hit it til he put a ring on it😊😉👍
@@thebluerobin Your point is? Back then people didn't live together before marriage. She said that she would not have married as many times if she had lived with most of her husbands beforehand. Better to get out of bad and unhappy marriages then to stay with someone and be miserable.
I met Joan Rivers some years ago she was nice
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Did I just see Lana Turner follow Sarah Purcell? What the hell? Does everyone remember all those classic Sarah Purcell movies from the golden age of Hollywood? Aside from that insult, this was a spectacular interview. Thanks again, Alan, for all of the gems you share.
The star treatment could teach you little lady like affectations, but it could never make a person classy - and certainly not self-reflective. The dig on Hedy Lamarr's acting was the pot calling the kettle black. And after seven marriages, you have to ask if you aren't part of the problem.
Paul Miller Hedy Lamar was the smartest woman in the golden age. she was actually an inventor of something the Americans used against the Germans in WW11 -I’m sorry I just don’t remember what it was. She was married to a German officer and fled to America.
Hedy Lamarr invented a radio signal that couldn't be intercepted. It was a very important piece of technology. It was then used 50 years later in cellular (mobile) phones. We can all thank Ms Lamarr for that. She didn't receive credit until a year before she died.
Jeff AZ Thank you for clarifying that. Not only was she stunningly beautiful, but she was smarter than anybody gave her credit for- until much later!👍
I don’t think anything in this interview implies that she isn’t reflective. It’s a 10 minute interview, dude, relax.
@@belgiumgirl8970who are you people? It was one comment.
A true legend.
I have seen a lot of her films and enjoyed her acting and was thrilled I found this to watch and enjoy. She was wonderful.
She's was an absolutely lovely person!
Can't take my eyes off of Lana! The embodiment of old Hollywood glamour. Love her in Imitation of Life, Peyton Place, Madame X. Sure that she had an army of make up people. stylists, and hairdressers, but she was a star, so look like one! What's wrong with that? But she also had that shine that the biggest stars of the Golden Era of Hollywood had. I got a question. Why do the older female stars, even now, don't get parts in big movies, unless you are Streep? Give me somebody with wisdom and smarts and class anyday!
One of my favorite stars ⭐️
I wish that she would have brought up what John Garfield was like to work with in the "Postman Always Rings Twice". I mean, there had to be SOME chemistry to work with him. I am in the middle of the interview and paused it,, but she just has to bring up Garfield. Gable is fine, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah. But come on, Garfield had that extra something and she forgets to bring him up?
Lol it was only a small segment, she couldn't discuss everything.
M Perry I've read that Turner did not get along with Garfield as she wasn't a big fan of his method acting. She also didn't find him sexually attractive so found building chemistry with him hard work considering the film and the role they played.
Right, she did not particularly like John Garfield. In spite of the chemistry in "The Postman Always Rings Twice". It was all good acting.
BUT Cheryl wrote that he attended several of her birthday parties, so they couldn't have parted enemies. Turner spoke well of Garfield in later years, but they didn't get on too well during the making of the film. Turner was always prouder of "Postman" than any of her films, and I think later she recognized his incredible contribution to the picture.
Garyb3397 oh I'm glad to know this. Lana didn't seem like the kind of lady to hold a grudge. Sounds like it was just during the making of the picture that there was an issue. :)
pure glamour! doesn't exist anymore. lana famously said that she wanted 7 kids and one husband but ended up with the reverse!!
The lady that invent WiFi. Legendary life, 6 marriages, was recognized her achievement in 84... moved me in tears by watching her documentary. Much much respect!👍👍👍👍👍
qingyan95 zhao hedy Lamar was smart as hell... unfortunately she got screwed out of her patent. Loved that documentary.
You are writing of Hedy Lamarr. This is the great Lana Turner. People drift on these threads so often.
BRAVO!
I think her audition for Scarlett was A list, but Vivien did nail it. VIVA LA TURNER!
I was named after her, my mom's favorite actress
@Lana Wana. Sorry but there's only one Lana Turner!!! But you're just as special in God's eyes 🙏
Hello, Lana!
I love doing those old roller sets on old ladies. They're all dying, now and it makes me sad. Look at Lana Turner's glorious hair .
I am 51 years of aged younger lady. I love the Golden Aged of Hollywood Elegant Ladies and the Dapper Men. Miss Lana Turner was absolutely Stunning Elegant. And she just reels you in towards her in all of her Movies🌹 Nowadays in this 21st Century the Glamorous,Eloquent and Elegant Days are gone for ever😔🤦🏾♀️
Rainbow, color platinum she is wearing her hair it is obviously bleach that beautiful
@Sharon Newman no, hair back then in the 80's was backcombed & hairsprayed to a stiff helmet that's all. 'Natural' wasn't a look then!
Lana born on February 8, 1921, so she is 60 here. I thought of Cher and her outfits at the equivalent age.
Art and Culture - Lana was way before my time, but what class she had - Cher doesn’t even know how to spell class, much less have it
Yes she was 60 but we don’t know about her surgeries. Most aren’t like JR. They don’t talk about what they’ve had done. I’m 62. And only my surgeon knows for sure. :)
@@jolenaagapisou3803 LOL! To put Cher in the same sentence with Lana Turner.... like comparing a pile of dog crap to a diamond.
nahla bella - I agree - lol
@@nahlabella4857 LOL
Did Lana start the term “sickening” to refer to a level of beauty?! 🤔🤭
This was delightful. Joan did a great interview, and I much preferred it to Donahue’s interview (although I always liked Phil). A woman to woman conversation, with questions about her career and some dishing :-) There was mutual respect. Lana was graceful, bright, and elegant, with a sense of humor. Just saw her in a movie with Donna Reed last evening - she was wonderful! Green Dolphin Street.
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What an all-around classy interview
Joan Rivers was BEAUTIFUL-but Lana Turner was ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS! ❤️
Joan was never beautiful. Even she said so. Joan just knew how to make herself up and she loved fashion and knew how to dress. She was funny and a great businesswoman and comedienne…. but she was far from beautiful.
My mistake: she was 61 or 62 then. I liked Lana but how unkind of her to say that Hedy Lamarr (who was still alive, incidentally) could not act. Lana was never a great actress herself.
Ricardo Bigi
Is it now forbidden to have a personal opinion and to tell it?
Both were terrible actresses, but Hedy Lamarr was so bad she made Lana Turner look Oscar-worthy.
Yes no questions, she looked great, but even in all interviews she was acting and that is what made her famous, controversial, 7 marriages and 1 abortion
2 abortions and 3 stillborn children, very sad
Lana Turner! Wow, I am a fan now. And I love her humor “This is beautiful downtown...Burbank?” How many times has she had to say that? LOL they don’t make stars like that anymore
I look on her as one of the all time greats. There were so many from a fantastic era.
Madame X my favourite movie
never read her book......but i have read enough to know Turner leaves out a lot...she was the only star to have a bed in her dressing room...never played around with people she worked with...lol..good one
...and after Sinatra stopped seeing her....she just about acted like she never met him..."no man leaves lana turner"......was her cry...
So?
I miss Joan ❤
Yes the showbiz world is just not the same without her .. x
Joan Rivers another favourite! Rest in Peace, Darling ❤🙏🕊
Ravishingly beautiful even in the later years RIP..
No one says ravishing anymore. I’m here for it!