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Turner and Stompanato in Mexico in early 1958. While filming the romantic comedy The Lady Takes a Flyer in the spring of 1957, [1] American film actress Lana Turner began receiving phone calls and flowers on the set from a former Marine named Johnny Stompanato, using the name "John Steele."
A Handley-Page Halifax bomber "London's Revenge" DK186 ZL L carried the name of Lana Turner into battle over Germany. [96] In July 1942, [97] Turner met her second husband, actor-turned-restaurateur Joseph Stephen "Steve" Crane, at a dinner party in Los Angeles. [98] The two eloped to Las Vegas a week after they began dating. [99]
John Stompanato Jr. (October 10, 1925 – April 4, 1958) was a United States Marine and gangster who became a bodyguard and enforcer for gangster Mickey Cohen. In the mid-1950s, he began an abusive relationship with actress Lana Turner.
Turner’s teenage daughter, Cheryl Crane, took the blame for stabbing Stompanato to protect her mother from a vicious beating from the gangster who claimed she was Turner's boyfriend, although ...
EXCLUSIVE: Lana Turner’s mobster boyfriend Johnny Stompanato was allegedly stabbed to death in her house by her daughter Cheryl Crane in 1958. This incident is the basis for Casey Sherman’s ...
Stephen Crane, Lana Turner, and Cheryl Crane, eight weeks old. Cheryl Crane was born July 25, 1943, [3] [4] at Hollywood Hospital in Los Angeles to actress Lana Turner and actor Steve Crane. At the time of her birth, Crane suffered near-fatal erythroblastosis fetalis due to her mother's Rh-negative blood. [5] Her parents divorced in August 1944 ...
During the film's principal photography in Britain, Connery was confronted on-set by gangster Johnny Stompanato, then-boyfriend of Lana Turner, who suspected the actor was having an affair with Turner. Stompanato pointed a gun at Connery and warned him to keep away from Turner.
Lana Turner's daughter, killer of Turner's abusive boyfriend L [427] David Crane: b. 1957 American Writer, producer G [428] Hart Crane: 1899–1932 American Poet G [429] Nicky Crane: 1958–1993 English Neo-Nazi activist G [430] Scott Cranham: b. 1954 Canadian Diver G [431] Anthony Crank: b. ? English TV presenter G [432] Toller Cranston: b ...