Editing Lana Turner (section)

==Legacy==
{{main|Lana Turner in popular culture}}[[File:Lana Turner still.JPG|thumb|upright=.9|Lana Turner in a publicity still, [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], 1940s]]
Turner has been noted by historians as a sex symbol, a [[popular culture]] icon{{sfn|Fields|2007|p=109}}{{sfn|Basinger|2008|p=182}} and "a symbol of the [[American Dream]] fulfilled&nbsp;... Because of her, being discovered at a soda fountain has become almost as cherished an ideal as being [[Log cabin#Symbolism|born in a log cabin]]."{{sfn|Fields|2007|p=109}} Critic [[Leonard Maltin]] noted in 2005 that Turner "came to crystallize the opulent heights to which show business could usher a small-town girl, as well as its darkest, most tragic and narcissistic depths".<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Turner Classic Movies|work=Leonard Maltin Classic Movie Guide|title=Lana Turner Biography|last=Maltin|first=Leonard|author-link=Leonard Maltin|access-date=July 28, 2018|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/195162%7C95348/Lana-Turner/|date=2005}}</ref> She has also been cited by scholars as a [[gay icon]] because of her diva persona and triumphs over personal struggles.{{sfn|Guilbert|2018|pages=176–177}} While discussions surrounding Turner have largely been based on her cultural prevalence, little scholarly study has been undertaken on her career,{{sfn|Jordan|2009|p=108}} and opinion of her legacy as an actress has divided critics. Upon Turner's death, [[John Updike]] wrote in ''[[The New Yorker]]'' that she "was a faded period piece, an old-fashioned glamour queen whose fifty-four films, over four decades didn't amount, retrospectively to much&nbsp;... As a performer, she was purely a studio-made product."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[The New Yorker]]|author=Updike, John|author-link=John Updike|title=Legendary Lana|date=February 12, 1996|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/02/12/legendary-lana|page=68|issn=0028-792X|access-date=June 20, 2018}}</ref>

Defenders of Turner's acting ability, such as Jessica Hope Jordan{{sfn|Jordan|2009|pages=108–109}} and [[James Robert Parish]],{{sfn|Parish|1978|p=401}} cite her performance in ''The Postman Always Rings Twice'' as an argument for the value of her work. Turner's role in the film has also caused her to be frequently associated with [[film noir]] and the femme fatale archetype in critical circles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/noir/np05ff.html|work=No Place for a Woman: The Family in Film Noir|title=The Femme Fatale|publisher=University of California, Berkeley| author=Blaser, John|date=January 1996|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uncw.edu/gls/damesfilmnoirgls592.html|publisher=University of North Carolina, Wilmington|title=GLS 592: The Hard Boiled Dames of Film Noir|work=Graduate Liberal Studies Program|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180523032645/https://www.uncw.edu/gls/damesfilmnoirgls592.html|archive-date=May 23, 2018}}</ref>{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=200}} In a 1973 ''Films in Review'' retrospective on her career, Turner was referred to as "a master of the motion picture technique and a hardworking craftsman".<ref name=fir>{{cite journal|journal=Films in Review|volume=24|title=Lana Turner|page=246|year=1973|publisher=National Board of Review of Motion Pictures}}</ref> Jeanine Basinger has similarly championed Turner's acting, writing of her performance in ''The Bad and the Beautiful'': "None of the sex symbols who have been touted as actresses—not [[Rita Hayworth|Hayworth]] or [[Ava Gardner|Gardner]] or [[Elizabeth Taylor|Taylor]] or [[Marilyn Monroe|Monroe]]—have ever given such a fine performance."{{sfn|Basinger|1976|p=88}}

Because of the intersections between Turner's high-profile, glamorous persona, and storied, often troubled personal life, she is included in critical discussions about the Hollywood [[studio system]], specifically its capitalization on its stars' private travails.{{sfn|Jordan|2009|p=108}} Basinger considers her the "epitome of the Hollywood machine-made stardom".{{sfn|Basinger|2008|p=181}} Turner has also been cited in scholarly discussions of women's sexuality.{{sfn|Jordan|2009|pages=109–113}}
[[File:Lana Turner has Collapsed poem (2145671178).jpg|thumb|upright=.9|left|alt=Paper hanging on a white wall with "Poem" written above it|Copies of the poem "Lana Turner has Collapsed" (1964) by [[Frank O'Hara]] at the [[Museum of the City of New York]]]]
Turner has been depicted and referenced in numerous works across literature, film, music and art. She was the subject of the poem "Lana Turner has collapsed" by [[Frank O'Hara]],{{sfn|Sutherland|Fender|2011|p=54}} and was depicted as a minor character in [[James Ellroy]]'s novel ''[[L.A. Confidential]]'' (1990).{{sfn|Dargis|2003|p=33}} The Stompanato murder and its aftermath were also the basis of the [[Harold Robbins]] novel ''[[Where Love Has Gone (novel)|Where Love Has Gone]]'' (1962).{{sfn|Erickson|2017|p=119}} In popular music, Turner was referenced in songs recorded by [[Nina Simone]]<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The A.V. Club|A.V. Music]]|url=https://www.avclub.com/it-only-took-30-years-for-my-baby-just-cares-for-me-t-1798283936|title=It only took 30 years for "My Baby Just Cares For Me" to be a hit|author=Ihnat, Gwen|date=September 2, 2015|access-date=May 27, 2018}}</ref> and [[Frank Sinatra]],{{sfn|Ingham|2005|p=138}} and was the source of the stage name of singer-songwriter [[Lana Del Rey]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lana-del-rey-is-exhausted |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |title=Lana Del Rey Is Exhausted |date=September 29, 2015 |author=Petrusich, Amanda |archive-date=April 30, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160430175215/http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lana-del-rey-is-exhausted }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/sd-et-music-lana-delrey-20180214-story.html|location=San Diego, California|work=The San Diego Union Tribune|title=Lana Del Rey has legs, a stalker, four Grammy nominations and a possible Broadway musical|date=February 14, 2018|author=Varga, George|access-date=May 24, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180524100405/http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/sd-et-music-lana-delrey-20180214-story.html|archive-date=May 24, 2018}}</ref> In 2002, artist Eloy Torrez included Turner in an outdoor [[mural]], ''Portrait of Hollywood'', painted on the auditorium of [[Hollywood High School]], her alma mater.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hhsalumnicommunity.ning.com/page/the-hhs-auditorium-mural|work=Hollywood High School Alumni Association|author=Garcia, Mark|title=The HHS Auditorium Mural|access-date=May 24, 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180524040527/http://hhsalumnicommunity.ning.com/page/the-hhs-auditorium-mural|archive-date=May 24, 2018}}</ref> Turner has a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6241 Hollywood Boulevard.<ref name=hwof>{{cite web|series=Hollywood Star Walk|work=Los Angeles Times|url=http://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/lana-turner/|title=Lana Turner|access-date=May 23, 2018|date=June 30, 1995|author=''Los Angeles Times'' Staff}}</ref> In 2012, ''[[Complex (magazine)|Complex]]'' named her the eighth-most infamous actress of all time.<ref>{{cite web|work=[[Complex (magazine)|Complex]]|title=The 50 Most Infamous Actresses of All Time|url=https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/08/the-50-most-infamous-actresses-of-all-time/|last1=Aquino|first1=Tara|last2=Hoare|first2=Peter|date=August 27, 2012|access-date=July 27, 2018}}</ref>