@@trevorjennings721 Fine. Thank you. But I don't usually respond to comments on RU-vid. 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???
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
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.
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. 🎉❤
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. 😂🙌🏽🔥
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❤️🙏
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.
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
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."
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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'.
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!👍👍👍👍👍
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@ 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.😔🤦🏾♀️
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. :)
