Born Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner in Wallace, ID. Quintessential rags-to-riches blonde lead of the 1940s, allegedly "discovered" while playing hooky from school and sipping a soda at Schwab's drugstore. A popular pin-up during the war and packaged as "The Sweater Girl," Turner's glamorous poise and elegant beauty assured her stardom. Her personal life was torridly publicized, particularly her love affairs, which included marriages to band leader Artie Shaw (for 7 months in 1940) and cinematic Tarzan Lex Barker. In 1958, between Turner's superb performance in PEYTON PLACE (1957) and her equally memorable role in Douglas Sirk's masterful weepy, IMITATION OF LIFE (1959), her daughter, Cheryl Crane, stabbed to death Turner's then-boyfriend, gangster Johnny Stompanato. Though Crane was acquitted on grounds of justifiable homicide, the fiasco included public readings of Turner's heated correspondence with the deceased, which only served to heighten her oversexed image. A veteran of seven marriages (She once said: "I planned on having one husband and seven children, but it turned out the other way around."), Turner dressed the set in most of her movies, but rose to the fore when a strong director guided her performances. Highlights of her career include: ZIEGFELD GIRL (1941), JOHNNY EAGER (1941), THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946), THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL (1952) (in a role based on Diana Barrymore) and MADAME X (1966). Turner also did occasional TV work, notably on the nighttime soap "Falcon Crest."  Nominated for Actress 1957: PEYTON PLACE 1 nomination