~ Lana Turner: The Lady, the Legend, the Truth by Lana Turner
Woman Near the Dinner Table, 1900
oil on canvas
Private Collection
Roycroft Apartments, 707 Eglinton Ave. W., June 2020
From Rick’s series Art Deco Toronto
Grauman’s Chinese Theater, Hollywood Blvd, 1938
The Clown, 1959
oil on canvas
46 1/8 x 46 in.
—Leslie Howard (born Leslie Howard Steiner, 1893-1943)
Date: 1656
oil on canvas
Height: 38.9 in; Width: 32.2 in.
Rijksmuseum
Self-portrait with Norma Jeane Dougherty (soon to become Marilyn Monroe) 1946
The Football Players, 1908
oil on canvas
100.5 cm X 80.3 cm
—Marni Nixon, (born Margaret Nixon McEathron, 1930 – 2016) the singing voice of, among many others, Deborah Kerr, Audrey Hepburn, and Natalie Wood.
Photo © Frank Q. Brown, 1962
Solitude
1944
oil on canvas: 81.3 cm X 127 cm
private collection
Dancing at The El Monte Legion Stadium, El Monte, CA, 1962
My father knew Lana Turner at Hollywood High. On the C type, they come regularly to the Monterey Historics. On Leslie Howard – true words! Didn’t know about the Churchill angle.
Poor Leslie Howard. He got on a plane with a man who looked like Churchill in Lisbon. As if Churchill would fly commercial. The Germans shot it down anyway.
A bit more info: https://lady.co.uk/why-did-nazis-murder-leslie-howard
….The plane was full, and they had to pull VIP status to have two passengers bumped off the flight.
Lucky 2!
I would keep the Timex if someone gave it to me, but I could not buy one for myself. The first thing that caught my eye was the tick marks in lieu of 3-6-9-12. I’m not a big fan of that. Then I saw the roman numerals at the 10-11 positions and my mind immediately thought “did they use IV or IIII for the 4 o’clock position? And that’s when my anxiety levels rose!
The 1962 hairdo in the dancing scene. That was a bouffant to end all bouffants. Lana Turner, the “Sweater Girl” musing about dress designing. She got away with stabbing Johnny Stompanato unless 14 year old Cheryl really did it.
I ran across a story that involved Sean Connery in the whole thing.
First time I’ve seen a C type Jaguar. Nice. Have a nice weekend.
What an interesting story! It seems that sex and logic (and common sense) are mutually exclusive. For men and women.
The D-Type is what naturally evolved from the C-Type. Both were made strictly for racing. Althopugh I believe the C-Type is a lot rarer. You should come to the Monterey Historic races sometime (although hotel pricing is scandalous)
And why, you wonder, do they call it a “California” dial?