Lana Turner

72 years ago this month a sixteen year-old student cutting class was discovered sipping soda at the Top Hat Cafe. One year later she had catapulted to the heights of Hollywood as Lana Turner. The photos below are from Lana Turner’s “Discovery Anniversary” Party on November 3, 1937.

Original caption: Actress Gets Repeat Order On Soda [...]

Original caption: Actress Celebrates “Discovery” At Soda Fountain. Anne Shirley (Mrs. John Payne), Carol Stone, Rosina Lawrence, Lana Turner, Vicki Lester and Natalie Draper (Mrs. Tom Brown) are pictured (left to right) as they sipped a “pumpkin soda” at the party given by Miss Turner in the Hollywood, California, soda fountain where she was “discovered” [...]