59 Lana Turner Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Imitation of Life is a drama film which tells the story of two mothers, who are facing problems in dealing with the rebellious nature of their young daughters.

Nick Smith, owner of a roadside diner, hires a drifter Frank Chambers to work at his restaurant. Soon, Frank begins an affair with Nick’s pretty wife Cora. The two eventually think of murdering Nick as well as seizing all his assets. Although they succeed, a local prosecutor Kyle starts to suspect them.

Considered as the ‘greatest musical,’ the film depicts silent era’s popular on-screen pair Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont who are perceived as real-life couple by many, including Lina. When their movie is transformed into a musical, Don sails through beautifully, while Lina’s shrill voice is secretly dubbed by Kathy Selden whom Don is dating. What happens when Lina finds out the truth? 

The Bad and the Beautiful is an American drama film which tells the story of a film producer who starts to distance himself from everyone around him. The film then shows us his past in a series of flashbacks.

This short film revolves around radio programs in which various film stars had appeared to perform in accordance to requests from American servicemen stationed around the world.

Peyton Place is a drama film which takes us to a small town in New England, where the townspeople are known to have high moral standards, which they try to pass on to their children. However, when a young woman is tried for murder, it begins to reveal several scandals and hypocrisies.

The Three Musketeers is an action adventure drama film which revolves around D’Artagnan, a young provincial noble who comes to Paris, hoping to become a Musketeer. Throughout his journey, he meets love, and also gets involved in politics. Meanwhile, he also develops a friendship with three Musketeers.

George and Marion are a rich but irresponsible couple. After an accident due to reckless driving, they soon find themselves as ghosts. They realize that they have neither been good enough to be sent to heaven, nor have committed any evil deeds to be sent to hell. They decide that they should free their old friend Cosmo Topper from his strict lifestyle, as this will be their “good deed” which will give them their ticket to heaven.

Self-centered Dr. Ulysses Johnson joins the army during WWII, but is censured by friend Dr. Sunday as being unsentimental towards his patients. Johnson meets Nurse Jane ‘Snapshot’ McCall during the voyage, falls in love with her and learns enormously from her; but feels guilty about betraying wife Penny. After experiencing the horrors of war, Dr. Johnson who returns home, is a changed person. 

Glamorous socialite Sheila Cabot devises a plan to be free of her ailing tyrannical husband while retaining his fortune by convincing her lover, Dr. David Rivera, to poison him during his treatment. One death leads to another after they are blackmailed for the crime, and the plot is further complicated when the doctor threatens to confess.

Dr. Jekyll believes that every individual has a good side and an evil side, and to explore his evil side, he creates a potion that transforms him into Mr. Hyde, his dark and evil side, which kills Ivy, a woman who had expressed interest in Jekyll, and Sir Charles, the father of Jekyll’s fiancée.

Love Finds Andy Hardy is a romantic comedy film which tells the story of Andy Hardy, the teen son of Judge James K Hardy, who gets entangled with three different girls at the same time.  

After being bored with her life, a waitress, leaves her city, and decides to go to New York for a makeover. However, after a freak accident, she is believed to be the daughter of wealthy industrialist gone missing, which causes comic consequences.  

This historical comedy film, tells the story of the famous eighteenth-century British actor David Garrick, who travels to France to star in a guest appearance at the French National Theater. However, when French actors hear rumors that the main reason for his trip is to teach them the art of acting, they decide to play a prank on him to teach him a lesson.  

The setting of this movie, based on the 1932 classic Grand Hotel, is the luxurious Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York and the focus is on a group of guest who are staying there during a weekend. Among them are a lone actress and a war correspondent who meet just by chance, a soldier awaiting to undergo a critical surgery and a cub reporter trying to expose a dubious deal.

Flame and the Flesh is a drama film which tells the story of a woman Madeline, who gets evicted from her apartment, as she is unable to pay the rent. A musician named Ciccio Duvario takes pity on her, and invites her home, but due to her manipulative nature, she starts taking advantage of his kindness.

Con-man ‘Candy’ Johnson manages to escape an angry crowd and travels to a small town, Yellow Creek, where he pretends to be an altruist to impress Elizabeth Cotton, daughter of ‘Judge’ Cotton, another sharpster like Candy. Soon, returning to his old ways, Candy tries to control the town. When he marries Elizabeth, Judge exposes Candy’s true intentions. Will they be happy together?  

Cass Timberlane, a middle-aged small-town judge with an immaculate reputation, falls in love with and marries Virginia ‘Jinny’ Marshland, a working-class girl, which creates ripples in his society. Feeling restless with the staid life, Jinny gets involved with Cass’s friend Bradd Criley, and leaving Cass, goes away with Bradd. Will she ever return to Cass? Can they share the same bond again?

Lily James moves from Kansas to New York and becomes a top model even though her friend and mentor, top model Mary, commits suicide. Lily then falls in love with mine-owner, Steve Harleigh, who is married to the paraplegic Nora. As the two begin an affair, Lily experiences a change of heart after meeting Nora. 

Realizing that Pat Buckley, owner of the paper, is planning to close it down, reporter Jean Christy suggests that he hire former employee,  Robert Lansford, now in public relation business, to improve the paper’s circulation. Initially unwilling, Robert agrees to take up the assignment only after he learns that Pat is dating Lorri, whose grandfather is a millionaire.  

Coatroom attendant, Louis Blore, adores the nightclub's star singer, May Daly, who is in love with poor dancer Alec Howe but wants to marry an arrogant patron for money. When Louis wins a huge sum in sweepstakes, he immediately wants to marry May, but after having a spiked drink, slips into a dream that changes his perspective.

Keep Your Powder Dry is an American drama film which tells the story of three women who join the Women's Army Corps during World War II. It portrays how they try to adjust to the difficulties in their new lives. 

In the 16th Century France, King Francis I asks Diane de Poitier to tutor his son Henri, which leads to a romance between the two. Diane becomes mistress of Prince Henri who later becomes King Henri II. Though he gets married to Catherine de Medici, Diane continues to be his mistress, and an influential advisor. After Henri’s death, Catherine sends rival Diane away.

An acting student, who attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day, works at a factory at night. After she meets a charming nobleman, she starts lying to her fellow students telling them that she is his lover. 

Dr. James Kildare’s mentor, Dr. Gillespie, assigns him to a street clinic to gain realistic experience and stations Nurse Mary to spy on him. Kildare is called to take a bullet out of wounded Nick Lewett. Despite recognizing Nick as a murder suspect, Kildare believes in his claims of innocence and besotted with Nick’s sister Rosalie, decides to help her find real murderer.

A war drama film adapted from a screenplay by Ronald Millar and George Froeschel, Betrayed is set in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during World War II. It revolves around Colonel Pieter Deventer, an intelligence agent of the exiled Dutch government who is now involved in the Dutch resistance movement.

Jonny and Kirk Davis, two brothers and war correspondents, return from Germany to the US in October 1941.  Here they are fired for muckraking and become interested in the same women, a lady reporter assigned to Pacific front. They next follow her to Indochina, ready to fight for her love, eventually reuniting in Manila on 7 December, the day USA joins the WWII. 

Stuck in a loveless marriage, British aristocrat, Lord Esketh, and his wife, Lady Edwina, arrive in Ranchipur, India to purchase some horses. When Esketh announces his intention to divorce her on returning to England, Edwina tries to seduce physician Dr. Rama Safti. Eventually the two fall in true love, but fate has other plans for them. 

The king of an impoverished country, orders a prince from a small kingdom to win the heart of a rich American widow so that the money stays in the country and the kingdom is saved from bankruptcy.

The Youngest Profession is a comedy drama film, which revolves around a lively teenage girl Joan and her best friend Patricia, who are dedicated autograph seekers. Together they run around New York City attempting to meet celebrities and get their autographs.  

Set towards the end of the Second World War, the story focuses on the relationship between an American reporter stationed in London and her British counterpart, who works for BBC. Although they develop a romantic relationship she later discovers that he is married with a son. Yet, they continue with their affair, trying to sort out their problem.  

Melanie, who initially suspects that her preoccupied husband, Steve Flood, is having an affair, discovers that he is losing money on horse-betting. Concocting a plan, she persuades Steve’s associate Clint to set her up as Steve’s bookie, to save his losses. Instead, Steve starts winning, which makes the syndicate boss search for the mysterious bookie, landing Melanie in a hot spot. 

Theo has had several boyfriends who wanted to marry her, although she is unsure of commitment herself. However, she finally accepts the proposal of Tom West, an Air Corps Lieutenant. Unfortunately, Tom loses his father after the wedding and he has to go into the defense industry. He has to work constantly, and hardly finds any time for his wife Theo, and their baby.

Famed Venetian explorer Marco Polo and his assistant Binguccio, travel to Peking to seek out the palace of Chinese Emperor Kublai Khan. Upon reaching, Marco becomes a favorite of the Khan and also falls in love with the Princess Kukachin. However, he has to contend with the emperor’s devious adviser, Ahmed, who wants to overthrow the Khan. 

The film, set in small eastern town, follows lives of three prominent law-firm partners, Julius Penrose, Arthur Winner and Noah Tuttle. Marjorie Penrose gets involved in a love-affair with Arthur Winner, after a car crash leaves her husband Julius sexually disabled. Arthur Winner has difficulties with unruly behavior of his insolent son, because of whom all associated people have to face problems.

Being a millionaire, she fears that men are more interested in her money than her.  Although her current boyfriend is wealthier she is still not convinced; nonetheless follows him to Brazil, when he goes there to play polo, fearing he may fall for some beautiful Latin woman. But there she meets a dashing Brazilian, who sweeps her off her feet.

Kit is vacationing with her husband Pete when they discover a body washed ashore. The body eventually turns out to be a man who was a friend of Pete and a former lover of Kit. Situations soon get complicated, and the stability of Kit’s and Pete’s marriage is put to the test.    

Freda, an up-coming American singer meets a European prince, Alex, at an Italian resort. As they start coming closer, news comes that Alex’s father is dying and so he rushes back home, sending an explanation to Freda through his minister. But the minister conveys a different message to her.  Freda returns home to become a big star. 

Lisa, the rebellion daughter of business tycoon Charles Winthrop, has all along detested her father’s new wife, Broadway star Adriana Roman. When he dies of an accident, leaving his wife the executor of his will, Lisa’s fortune hunter boyfriend finds it easy to convince her that Adriana has murdered her father and conspire to drive her insane. 

Bittersweet Love is a romantic drama film which tells the story of a young married couple who are expecting a baby, but they suddenly discover that they are related as half-siblings. The woman visits her doctor to check if she can obtain an abortion, but eventually decides not to do it. However, her mother requests her to consider ending the pregnancy, or at least give up the baby for adoption.

Wealthy widow Carrie Masters, a crippled cat-lover, takes out all her bitterness on son David. Years later, when he returns with wife Janie and young son, Carrie again dominates and tortures him. Janie suffers breakdown when Carrie’s cat suffocates her baby. Carrie hires a nurse, mainly to separate the couple; but when David loses Janie, he goes after Carrie to take revenge. 

This comedy horror film revolves around a group of wives who use witchcraft to advance the careers of their husbands.