Blonde on Blonde - Lana Turner

Mariella Frostrup tells the dramatic story of film actress Lana Turner, Queen of Film Noir and the original Sweater Girl. The epitome of the platinum blonde bombshell of her day, she had a penchant for marriage, amassing seven husbands in all, even marrying one of them for a second time, and once found herself in the witness box at a murder trial defending her own daughter for the murder of one of her lovers, a minor gangster called Johnny Stompanato. Some say it was the performance of her life, others prefer 'The Postman Always Rings Twice', one of the classic films of the 1940's. Lana Turner's gutter-to-the-stars life - being discovered sipping a soda at the age of 15 in a Hollywood drugstore and being propelled to fame as a glamorous platinum blonde film star - inspired the dreams of a hundred would be starlets - no soda fountain bar stool would be empty again.