Her name automatically refers to the golden age of Hollywood, creates fantasies, makes legends and is an emblem in American folk culture. Lana Tarner, was the first sex symbol in cinema history, starting with a pin up model, as the eroticism she broadcast could shake the crowds. She was not just a beauty but a woman who could blow up her male cravings, with her promising look, under her silver rich hair, to create an erotic magnetic field.

Even science raised her hands with her, as she had been a matter of scientific discussions about female sexuality, while inspiring many literary works, cinema, music and visual arts.

Although just 1.60 height, her statue, with her frenzied skin, her melodic movement, Tarner could be imposed on those who approached her, even a huge star star, fill the big screen, electrify the atmosphere. Although not the great actress, with the interpretive ability of a Betty Davis or Barbara Stanwick, she had the necessary talent and of course all these features that one can hardly find in a woman in the show.

Lana Tarner had a long career in Hollywood, some iconic films, such as “The Postman always hits twice”, “This is my life”, “The Beast and the Beast”, but also a hectic fictional life that did not even fit her life with her many biographies. For anthropomorphic American film industry it proved to be particularly tough, as opposed to many of its colleagues. She always lived in the red, married eight times and had numerous lovers, while still concerned with the murder of her lover and gangster Johnny Stobanato, from her only beloved and beloved daughter, a dark story.

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of her death (June 29, 1995), it is an opportunity to remember her first steps, to get to know some of the well -known and unknown life of her mythical life, but also because she was described as “an epitome of the mechanically constructed Hollywood star”.

The humble ancestry and the murder of the father

Julia Jin Tarner, as her real name was, was born on February 8, 1921, to the working class parents in the Eidaho Wallace. Her father worked in mines, while her mother occasionally made the model. When her family moved to San Francisco and Lana was just 6 years old, her parents would split. Immediately afterwards she will lose her father when he will earn some money in the dice, but will find himself beaten to death and without the money. His homicide has never been solved, and for the sad incident, Tarner will say that his loss will cost her and mean her rapid adulthood.

Cindered

After the loss of her father, little Lana will often live with family friends or acquaintances so that her poor mother can work constantly as aesthetic to get out. Living for a while in a family in Modesto, he will experience physical abuse, and as he remembered, there were a few times he “lived with crackers and milk for days”. Her mother will have respiratory problems and her doctor advised to move to a drier climate, so she moved with her daughter to Los Angeles in 1936, where Tarner’s great journey began in the show.

The publisher, Marx and Liroi

At the age of 16, Tarner, making a joke from Hollywood High School, will find her in a bar drinking her soft drink. There she will be found by William Wilkerson, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter, impressed by her beauty and physical shape. She would ask her if she would be interested in playing in films and she replied that “she should ask my mother first.” Thus, with her mother’s permission, Wilkerson will send Tarner to the comedian-head of Talent Zepo Marx (a member of the renowned “Marx Brothers”), who in turn introduced her to director Mervin Liroi, who will offer her to Warner Bros.

The new jeans Harlow

The 16 -year -old and even brown Tarner will proceed with courage and will almost immediately play in Liroy’s “They Don’t Forget”. Although her appearance was short, the Hollywood Reporter will write that “her interpretation was worthy of more than a passing note.” That same year, Liroy was hired as a member of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and took Tarner with him. Metro boss Jack Warner did not believe her, but was quickly denied when she played next to the image of youth films Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in the movie “Love Finds Andy Hardy” (1938) and the film will break the funds. Tarner’s appearance will convince Metro’s other big boss, Louis B. Mayer, that the still minor actress could become the next denim Harlow, who had died six months ago.

The postman

Mayer’s inspiration will quickly make Tarner as an undisputed sex symbol, with her films and challenging photographs making a shoot. Tarner, who will bring millions to the film industry, will star in 1946 in the classic film noir “The Postman always strikes twice”, with John Garfield on her side, who will take her reputation. So is her personal life, marked by the assassination of her lover Stobanato, by her daughter, by her second marriage to Joseph Crane.

Gangster murder

Her 14 -year -old daughter, in front of one of the many episodes between her mother and her jealous lover, a well -known thumbs up of the famous mobster Mickey Cohen, will stab him deadly. A dark story, as there will be rumors that Lana had made the murder. However, the violent and sick jealous of Stobanato had given several reasons to end. The story with Sean Connery is characteristic when shooting the film “Another Time, Another Place” pulled a gun against him and the famous actor managed to disarm him. However, the story of her daughter has many other dark and unknown elements, such as her sexual abuse by Tarner’s fifth husband, actress Lex Barker.

This is my life

Nevertheless, Lana Tarner’s career will not fade even after the murder of Stampanato and will soak up when she starred in the masterpiece drama “This is my life”, Douglas Serki and with her, John Gavin, and John Gavin ” Role.

Idol

The volcanic Lana Tarner, the woman who preferred to “kiss than to hide”, to show off her physical qualifications and to be ahead of her time, will withstand Hollywood for years, for which she did not have the best view. She will leave her last breath, at the age of 74, in 1995, from larynx cancer, though she has cut the drink but never the cigarette. An actress who might have been Hollywood’s construction, but had the raw material, her shimmering appearance, which made her an idol and synonym of eroticism.