Editing Lana Turner (section)

===1940–1945: War years and film stardom===
[[File:Judy Garland, Lana Turner, and James Stewart.jpg|thumb|upright=1|right|[[Judy Garland]], Turner, and [[James Stewart]] on the set of ''[[Ziegfeld Girl (film)|Ziegfeld Girl]]'' (1941), which precipitated her rise at MGM]]
In 1940, Turner appeared in her first musical film, ''[[Two Girls on Broadway]]'', in which she received top billing over established co-stars [[Joan Blondell]] and [[George Murphy]].{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=35}} A remake of ''[[The Broadway Melody]]'', the film was marketed as featuring Turner's "hottest, most daring role".{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=35}} The following year, she had a lead role in her second musical, ''[[Ziegfeld Girl (film)|Ziegfeld Girl]]'', opposite [[James Stewart]], Judy Garland and [[Hedy Lamarr]].{{sfn|Barton|2010|p=101}} In the film, she portrayed Sheila Regan, an alcoholic aspiring actress based on [[Lillian Lorraine]].{{sfn|Langer|2001|loc=event occurs at 15:18}}{{sfn|Valentino|1976|p=97}} ''Ziegfeld Girl'' marked a personal and professional shift for Turner; she claimed it as the first role that got her "interested in acting",<ref>{{cite news|date=June 6, 1943|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21981331/the_baltimore_sun/|via=Newspapers.com|title=Glamor Palling on Lana|last=Holliday|first=Kate|work=The Baltimore Sun|location=Baltimore, Maryland|page=55}}</ref> and the studio, impressed by her performance, marketed the film as featuring her in "the best role of the biggest picture to be released by the industry's biggest company".{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=49}} The film's high box-office returns elevated Turner's profitability, and MGM gave her a weekly salary raise to $1,500 as well as a personal makeup artist and trailer (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|1500|1940}}}} in {{Inflation-year|US}} dollars {{inflation-fn|US}}).{{sfn|Langer|2001|loc=event occurs at 17:10}} After completing the film, Turner and co-star Garland remained lifelong friends, and lived in houses next to one another in the 1950s.{{sfn|Crane|De La Hoz|2008|pages=34, 185, 331}}

Following the success of ''Ziegfeld Girl'', Turner took a supporting role as an [[ingénue]] in ''[[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941 film)|Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]]'' (1941) – a sanitized remake of the original [[pre-Code]] [[Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 film)|film from a decade earlier]] – remade as a [[Sigmund Freud|Freudian]]-influenced horror film, opposite [[Spencer Tracy]] and [[Ingrid Bergman]].<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Life (magazine)|Life]]|title=Speaking of Pictures&nbsp;... These Freudian Montage Shots Show Mental State of Jekyll Changing to Hyde|pages=14–16|publisher=Time, Inc|issn=0024-3019|date=August 25, 1941|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZE0EAAAAMBAJ&q=lana+turner+ingrid+bergman&pg=PA15|via=Google Books}}</ref> MGM had initially cast Turner in the lead, but Tracy specifically requested Bergman for the part. The studio recast Turner in the smaller role, though she was still given top billing.{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=50}} While the film was financially successful at the box office,{{sfn|Schatz|1999|p=111}} ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine panned it, calling it "a pretentious resurrection of [[Robert Louis Stevenson]]'s ghoulish classic&nbsp;... As for Lana Turner, fully clad for a change, and the rest of the cast&nbsp;... they are as wooden as their roles."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|volume=XXXVIII|issue=6|date=August 11, 1941|title=Review: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde|page=4|author=''Time'' Staff|issn=0040-781X|publisher=Time, Inc}}</ref>

Turner was then cast in the Western ''[[Honky Tonk (1941 film)|Honky Tonk]]'' (1941), the first of four films in which she would star opposite [[Clark Gable]].{{sfn|Basinger|1976|pages=51–53}} The Turner-Gable films' successes were often heightened by gossip-column rumors about a relationship between the two.{{sfn|Wayne|2003|p=173}} In January 1942, she began shooting her second picture with Gable, titled ''[[Somewhere I'll Find You]]'';<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1983&dat=19421017&id=IwJgAAAAIBAJ&pg=998,3909798|work=San Jose Evening News|location=San Jose, California|date=October 17, 1942|page=4|title=Gable and Lana Turner Star|via=Google News}}</ref> however, the production was halted for several weeks after the death of Gable's wife, [[Carole Lombard]], in a plane crash.{{sfn|Wayne|2003|p=174}} Meanwhile, the press continued to fuel rumors that Turner and Gable were romantic offscreen, which Turner vehemently denied.{{sfn|Langer|2001|loc=event occurs at 21:05}} "I adored Mr. Gable, but we were [just] friends", she later recalled. "When six o'clock came, he went his way and I went mine."<ref name=donahue/> Her next project was ''[[Johnny Eager]]'' (1941), a violent mobster film in which she portrayed a socialite.{{sfn|Basinger|1976|p=54}}{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=51}} [[James Agee]] of ''Time'' magazine was critical of co-star [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]]'s performance and noted: "Turner is similarly handicapped: Metro has swathed her best assets in a toga, swears that she shall become an actress, or else. Under these adverse circumstances, stars Taylor and Turner are working under wraps."<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|title=Cinema: The New Pictures|date=February 23, 1942|access-date=May 28, 2018|author=Agee, James|author-link=James Agee|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,884505-2,00.html}}</ref>

[[File:Lana Turner 1943.png|left|thumb|Turner in 1943]]

At the advent of US involvement in [[World War II]], Turner's increasing prominence in Hollywood led to her becoming a popular [[pin-up model|pin-up girl]],{{sfn|Fischer|1991|pages=187–189}} and her image appeared painted on the noses of U.S. fighter planes, bearing the nickname "Tempest Turner".{{sfn|Langer|2001|loc=event occurs at 33:33}} In June 1942, she embarked on a 10-week [[war bond]] tour throughout the western United States with Gable.<ref name=pittsburghkiss/> During the tour, she began promising kisses to the highest war bond buyers; while selling bonds at the [[Pioneer Courthouse]] in [[Portland, Oregon]], she sold a $5,000 bond to a man for two kisses,<ref>{{cite news|title=Lana's Kisses Really 'Sell'|newspaper=Eugene Register-Guard|location=Eugene, Oregon|page=1|date=June 12, 1942|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21981418/the_eugene_guard/|via=Newspapers.com}}Burnt Norton</ref> and another to an elderly man for $50,000.<ref name=pittsburghkiss/> Arriving to sell bonds in her hometown of [[Wallace, Idaho]], she was greeted with a banner that read "Welcome home, Lana", followed by a large celebration during which the mayor declared a holiday in her honor.{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=81}} Upon completing the tour, Turner had sold $5.25 million in war bonds.<ref name=pittsburghkiss>{{cite news|work=The Pittsburgh Press|location=Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania|title=Lana's Kisses Sell Bonds Without Her Fancy Speech|page=1|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21981391/the_pittsburgh_press/|via=Newspapers.com|date=June 25, 1942}}</ref> Throughout the war, Turner continued to make regular appearances at U.S. troop events and area bases, though she confided to friends that she found visiting the hospital wards of injured soldiers emotionally difficult.{{sfn|Langer|2001|loc=event occurs at 33:53}} During World War II, the Royal Canadian Air Force 427 Lion Squadron had been "adopted" by MGM. Many of the aircraft had dedications or nose art honoring MGM's stars. A Handley-Page Halifax bomber "London's Revenge" DK186 ZL L carried the name of Lana Turner into battle over Germany.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.427squadron.com/news_file/photos_427_wwII.html |title=427 World War II Photos}}</ref>

In July 1942,{{sfn|Valentino|1976|p=28}} Turner met her second husband, actor-turned-restaurateur [[Joseph Stephen Crane|Joseph Stephen "Steve" Crane]], at a dinner party in Los Angeles.{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=66}} The two eloped to Las Vegas a week after they began dating.{{sfn|Langer|2001|loc=event occurs at 24:20}} The marriage was annulled by Turner four months later upon discovering that Crane's previous divorce had not yet been finalized.{{sfn|Basinger|1976|pages=141–142}} After discovering she was pregnant in November 1942, Turner remarried Crane in [[Tijuana]] in March 1943.{{sfn|Valentino|1976|p=28}} During her early pregnancy, she filmed the comedy ''[[Marriage Is a Private Affair]]'', in which she starred as a carefree woman struggling to balance her new life as a mother.{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=69}} Though she wanted multiple children, Turner had [[Rh blood group system|Rh-negative blood]], which caused fetal [[anemia]] and made it difficult to carry a child to term.{{sfn|Parish|2011|p=249}}{{sfn|Turner|1982|pages=9, 85, 142}} Turner was urged by doctors to undergo a [[therapeutic abortion]] to avoid potentially life-threatening complications, but she managed to carry the child to term. She gave birth to a daughter, [[Cheryl Crane|Cheryl]], on July 25, 1943. Turner's blood condition resulted in Cheryl being born with near-fatal [[Hemolytic disease of the newborn|erythroblastosis fetalis]].{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=70}}{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|pages=69–70}}

[[File:Lana Turner - Suspense Radio (1945).jpg|thumb|right|upright=.8|Turner performing on ''[[Suspense (radio drama)|Suspense]]'' radio show, 1945|alt=Woman speaking into a microphone]]

Meanwhile, publicity over Turner's remarriage to Crane led MGM to play up her image as a sex symbol in the comedy ''[[Slightly Dangerous]]'' (1943), with [[Robert Young (actor)|Robert Young]], [[Walter Brennan]] and Dame [[May Whitty]], in which she portrayed a woman who moves to New York City and poses as the long-lost daughter of a millionaire.{{sfn|Langer|2001|loc=event occurs at 27:00}} Released in the midst of Turner's pregnancy, the film was financially successful{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=68}} but received mixed reviews, with [[Bosley Crowther]] of ''The New York Times'' writing: "No less than four Metro writers must have racked their brains for all of five minutes to think up the rags-to-riches fable&nbsp;... Indeed, there is cause for suspicion that they didn't even bother to think."<ref>{{cite news|work=The New York Times|author=Crowther, Bosley|date=April 2, 1943|page=17|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1943/04/02/archives/-slightly-dangerous-a-comedy-wherein-lana-turner-robert-young.html|title='Slightly Dangerous,' a Comedy Wherein Lana Turner, Robert Young Appear, at Capitol – 'Saint' Film at the Palace|access-date=June 14, 2018|author-link=Bosley Crowther}}</ref> Critic [[Anita Loos]] praised Turner's performance in the film, writing: "Lana Turner typifies modern allure. She is the vamp of today as [[Theda Bara]] was of yesterday. However, she doesn't look like a vamp. She is far more deadly because she lets her audience relax."{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|pages=68–69}}

In August 1944, Turner divorced Crane, citing his gambling and unemployment as primary reasons.{{sfn|Turner|1982|p=77}} Turner was among 250 film notables listed by the Hollywood Democratic Committee as supporting the re-election of [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] incumbent President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] during the 1944 presidential election.{{sfn|Jordan|2011|p=232}}{{sfn|Valentino|1976|p=267}} In 1945, she co-starred with [[Laraine Day]] and [[Susan Peters]] in ''[[Keep Your Powder Dry]]'', a war drama about three disparate women who join the [[Women's Army Corps]].{{sfn|Valentino|1976|p=133}} She was then cast as the female lead in ''[[Week-End at the Waldorf]]'', a loose remake of ''[[Grand Hotel (1932 film)|Grand Hotel]]'' (1932) in which she portrayed a stenographer (a role originated by [[Joan Crawford]]).{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=82}} The film was a box-office hit.{{sfn|Morella|Epstein|1971|p=82}}{{sfn|Valentino|1976|p=135}}