Editing Lana Turner (section)

===1921–1936: Early life and education===
[[File:Lana Turner c. 1926.jpg|thumb|upright|right|alt=Young girl walking uphill|Turner at the age of five in Wallace, Idaho{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=65}}]]
Julia Jean Turner<ref name=newspref1>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19500507&id=Tx01AAAAIBAJ&pg=6996,6106468|title='Lana' Turner Official Now|date=May 7, 1950|page=6D|publisher=UP|work=Eugene Register-Guard|location=Eugene, OR |via=Google News}}</ref><ref name=squire>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Modern Screen]]|issn=0026-8429|title=The Strange Case of Lana Turner|url=https://archive.org/stream/modernscreen26unse#page/n553/|page=32|date=May 1943|via=Internet Archive|author=Squire, Nancy Winslow}}</ref>{{efn|Some sources claim Turner's birth name to be Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner. However, Turner notes in her autobiography that her birth certificate lists Julia Jean Turner as her official birth name.{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=9}} She writes that she later adopted the middle names Mildred and Frances (saints' names as well as the given and middle names of her mother) after converting to Catholicism.{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=14}}}} was born on February 8, 1921,{{efn|Some sources (including the ''San Francisco Chronicle''<ref name=sfc/> and ''Los Angeles Times''{{'}}s Hollywood Walk of Fame series)<ref name=hwof/> erroneously report her birth year as 1920. However, in her memoir, Turner cited her birth certificate as reading 1921,{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=9}} and her daughter again confirmed this as her birth year in 2008.{{sfn|Crane|De La Hoz|2008|p=16}}}} at [[Providence Hospital (Wallace, Idaho)|Providence Hospital]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lmtribune.com/northwest/a-star-was-born-in-idaho-wallace-folks-remember-turner/article_404bbbc9-f885-53bd-8001-8a9bae6bcc1f.html|title=A star was born in Idaho; Wallace folks remember Turner's early years. Her family moved to San Francisco when she was 6 years old|date=July 3, 1995|work=Lewiston Tribune|location=Lewiston, Idaho|author=Fernandes, Charles|access-date=June 25, 2017}}</ref> in [[Wallace, Idaho]].<ref name="grever">{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1338&dat=19410515&id=MeJXAAAAIBAJ&pg=7185,3777463|work=Spokane Daily Chronicle|location=Spokane, WA|title=Lana Turner, Born in Wallace, Idaho, Twenty Years Ago, Now a Star|author=Grever, Brindley|page=16|date=May 15, 1941|via=Google News}}</ref>{{sfn|Turner|1982|pages=10–11}} She was the only child of Mildred Frances Cowan, who hailed from [[Lamar, Arkansas]], and John Virgil Turner, a miner from [[Montgomery, Alabama]]. Her mother had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry, while her father was of Dutch descent. She was born four days before her mother's 17th birthday.{{sfn|Turner|1982|pages=9–10}} Her parents had first met while her mother was 14 and her father was 24; Mildred was the daughter of a mine inspector and was visiting [[Picher, Oklahoma]], a trip that was taken so her father could inspect the mines there.{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=9}} Mildred's father objected to the courtship, but she and John eloped and moved west before settling in Idaho.{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=10}}

The family lived in [[Burke, Idaho]], at the time of Turner's birth,<ref>{{cite book|issn=0019-1264|title=Idaho Yesterdays|volume=35–36|publisher=Idaho Historical Society|year=1991|page=26|chapter=Burke, Idaho, 1884–1925: The Rise and Fall of a Mining Community|author=Buenneke, Troy D.}}</ref> and relocated to nearby Wallace in 1925,{{efn|Per the official city of Wallace website, the Turner home in Wallace was located at 217 Bank Street, immediately west of downtown Wallace. The home is located within the Wallace Historic District, which is on the [[National Register of Historic Places]] (OMB no. 1024-0018).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wallace-id.com/lana.html|title=Lana Turner lived in Historic Wallace|work=City of Wallace, Idaho|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213051616/http://wallace-id.com/lana.html|archive-date=December 13, 2007|access-date=August 26, 2017|author=Marsh, Greg}}</ref>}} where her father opened a dry cleaning service and worked in the local silver mines.{{sfn|Bamont|Jacobson|2017|p=161}} As a child, Turner was known to family and friends as Judy.{{sfn|Basinger|1976|p=19}} She expressed interest in performance at a young age, performing short dance routines at her father's [[Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks|Elks chapter]] in Wallace.<ref name=laobit>{{cite news|title=Lana Turner, Glamorous Star of 50 Films, Dies at 75 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=June 30, 1995 |author=''Los Angeles Times'' Staff |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-lana-turner-20160624-snap-htmlstory.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160811055023/http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/archives/la-me-lana-turner-20160624-snap-htmlstory.html |archive-date=August 11, 2016}}</ref> When she was three, she performed an impromptu dance routine at a charity fashion show in which her mother was modeling.<ref name=laobit/>

The Turner family struggled financially and relocated to [[San Francisco]] when she was six years old, after which her parents separated.{{sfn|Wayne|2003|p=164}} On December 14, 1930,{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=15}} her father won some money at a traveling [[craps]] game; he stuffed his winnings in his sock and headed home, but was later found bludgeoned to death on the corner of Minnesota and Mariposa Streets, on the edge of San Francisco's [[Potrero Hill, San Francisco, California|Potrero Hill]] and the [[Dogpatch, San Francisco|Dogpatch District]], with his left shoe and sock missing.{{Sfn|Basinger|1976|p=19}}{{Sfn|Wayne|2003|pages=164–165}} His robbery and homicide were never solved,{{sfn|Basinger|1976|p=19}} and his death had a profound effect on Turner, who was only nine years old at the time.{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=18}}<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Pahle |first=Rebecca |date=2021-02-08 |title=10 Dramatic Facts About Lana Turner |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/641834/lana-turner-actor-facts |access-date=2025-03-28 |website=Mental Floss |language=en-us}}</ref> She later said, "I know that my father's sweetness and gaiety, his warmth and his tragedy, have never been far from me. That, and a sense of loss and of growing up too fast."{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=11}}

Turner sometimes lived with family friends or acquaintances so that her impoverished mother could save money.{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=12}} They also frequently moved, for a time living in [[Sacramento]] and throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=13}} Following her father's death, Turner lived for a period in [[Modesto, California|Modesto]] with a family who physically abused her and "treated her like a servant".{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=11}} Her mother worked 80 hours per week as a beautician to support herself and her daughter,{{sfn|Fischer|1991|p=22}}{{sfn|Basinger|1976|p=21}} and Turner recalled sometimes "living on crackers and milk for half a week".{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=13}}

While baptized a [[Protestantism|Protestant]] at birth,{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=7}} Turner attended [[Mass in the Catholic Church|Mass]] with the Hislops, a Catholic family with whom her mother had temporarily boarded her in [[Stockton, California]].{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=14}} She became "thrilled" by the ritual practices of the church,{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=14}} and when she was seven, her mother allowed her to formally convert to [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]].{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=14}}<ref name=donahue/> Turner subsequently attended the [[Immaculate Conception Academy (California)|Convent of the Immaculate Conception]]<ref name=sfc>{{cite web|work=San Francisco Chronicle|title=Editorial – Lana Turner: 1920–1995|url=https://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/EDITORIAL-Lana-Turner-1920-1995-3029046.php|author=''San Francisco Chronicle'' Staff|date=July 3, 1995|access-date=July 28, 2018}}</ref> in San Francisco, hoping to become a nun.<ref name=laobit/> In the mid-1930s, Turner's mother developed respiratory problems and was advised by her doctor to move to a drier climate, upon which the two moved to [[Los Angeles]] in 1936.<ref name=laobit/>{{sfn|Wayne|2003|pages=164–165}}