33. Notorious | Lana Turner

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

History, True Crime

4.7 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Actress Lana Turner was one of the many famous faces who embraced Dominick when he first made Hollywood his home in the mid-1950s. His timing was impeccable; a few short years after the Dunnes moved to Los Angeles, Lana Turner was caught up in the scandalous killing of her gangster boyfriend, Johnny Stompanato. Sources: The Way We Lived Then: Recollections of a Well-Known Name Dropper, by Dominick Dunne (amazon.com) Ava Gardner: The Secret Conversations, by Peter Evans and Ava Gardner (amazon.com) Lana: The Lady, The Legend, The Truth, by Lana Turner (amazon.com) LANA: The Memories, the Myths, the Movies, by Cheryl Crane and Cindy De La Hoz (amazon.com) Detour: A Hollywood Story, by Cheryl Crane and Cliff Jahr (amazon.com) Blonde Ambition, by Dominick Dunne (vanityfair.com) Intimate Partner Violence Resources If you are suffering with intimate partner abuse, here are resources for different countries. Please ask for help: US Crisis Text Line: 741741 US National Domestic Violence Hotline: 800-799-7233 UK Domestic Abuse Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Australia Rape & Domestic Violence Hotline: https://www.1800respect.org.au or 1800 RESPECT Canada: http://thelifelinecanada.ca./help/call/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Done and Done. I'm Alicia, your host to us on this podcast journey, All Things, Dominic Dunn.
0:07.6	Surprise, friends. It is an extra episode this week. We are celebrating all the things.
0:13.7	Year 2 of Done and Done. Patreon is live. We have a Done and Done Facebook now, too.
0:19.9	It's all just too good not to really stick the landing
0:22.5	on a brand new everything for the coming year. And Will Valentine's Week 2? There's nothing I love
0:28.7	more than done. I am so happy you are here with me today. In this episode, we are picking up with
0:35.7	the thread that was left in yesterday's episode
0:38.1	when our nine-year-old Nick recalls being obsessed with Lana Turner being discovered at
0:43.6	Schwab's drugstore by Mervyn LaRoy. Dunn will later write, there is a mythology of the
0:49.8	great blonde movie stars and I happen to enjoy it. I still want to believe that Lana Turner was discovered
0:56.5	at the soda fountain of Schwab's drugstore on the sunset strip, even though I know it isn't true.
1:02.8	No, it's not true, and even the timeline is out of sync with our nine-year-old Nick's recollections.
1:08.8	But we are going to talk about the real life, Lana Turner
1:12.3	origin story today, and then spend a little more time with Lana, legendary and notorious.
1:20.2	Lana Turner will make an enormous impact in Dominic Dunn's life in 1958 upon the death of her lover,
1:27.4	Johnny Stompinado. A previous Dun and Dunn's life in 1958 upon the death of her lover, Johnny Stompano.
1:29.4	A previous Dunn and Dunn profile, Ava Gardner, who is a great friend of Lana Turner's,
1:35.5	will say, Lana Turner says that life is what happens to you while the crow's feet are
1:41.1	fucking up your good looks. Lana has a name and a story for every goddamn
1:46.8	wrinkle on her face. This episode will attempt to explain a few of those wrinkles. Let's pose a few
1:54.1	questions in our continuing quest. How does Lana Turner really get discovered? How does Dominic
2:00.3	Dunn fulfill those nine-year-old star-struck ambitions and get himself back to Hollywood?
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