Lana Turner Ranked
by rmailander | created - 23 Nov 2019 | updated - 23 Nov 2019 | PublicA ranking of Lana Turner's film performances.
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1. Imitation of Life (1959)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama
An aspiring white actress takes in an African American widow whose mixed-race daughter is desperate to be seen as white.
Director: Douglas Sirk | Stars: Lana Turner, John Gavin, Sandra Dee, Susan Kohner
Votes: 18,226 | Gross: $13.99M
2. The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Passed | 113 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A married woman and a drifter fall in love and then plot to murder her husband.
Director: Tay Garnett | Stars: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn
Votes: 22,892 | Gross: $8.33M
3. The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Passed | 118 min | Drama, Romance
An unscrupulous movie producer uses an actress, a director and a writer to achieve success.
Director: Vincente Minnelli | Stars: Lana Turner, Kirk Douglas, Walter Pidgeon, Dick Powell
Votes: 16,465
4. Peyton Place (1957)
Approved | 157 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A peaceful New England town hides secrets and scandals.
Director: Mark Robson | Stars: Lana Turner, Lee Philips, Lloyd Nolan, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 6,615 | Gross: $25.60M
5. Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
Passed | 132 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
In the 1920s, three women become performers in the renowned Broadway show the Ziegfeld Follies, where they find fame, love, and tragedy.
Directors: Busby Berkeley, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: James Stewart, Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr, Lana Turner
Votes: 3,454
6. Honky Tonk (1941)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Fast-talking con-man and grifter Candy Johnson rises to be the corrupt boss of Yellow Creek, but his wife's alcoholic father tries to set things right.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Frank Morgan, Claire Trevor
Votes: 1,244 | Gross: $6.31M
7. Madame X (1966)
Approved | 100 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
When her lover is killed, the wife of a wealthy man is convinced to fake her own death, which leads her into greater depths of depravity until fate reunites her with her long-lost son, who is unaware of her real identity.
Director: David Lowell Rich | Stars: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 2,581
8. Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
Passed | 130 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
The misadventures of a group of diverse guests at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in Manhattan.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon, Van Johnson
Votes: 1,342 | Gross: $9.51M
9. Green Dolphin Street (1947)
Approved | 141 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
A young man loved by two sisters becomes a naval officer and sails to New Zealand, where he drunkenly writes a marriage proposal to the wrong sister, profoundly affecting the life of the other.
Director: Victor Saville | Stars: Van Heflin, Lana Turner, Donna Reed, Richard Hart
Votes: 1,807
10. The Three Musketeers (1948)
Not Rated | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
D'Artagnan and his Musketeer comrades thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Lana Turner, Gene Kelly, June Allyson, Van Heflin
Votes: 6,936
11. Homecoming (1948)
Approved | 113 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
At the end of WW2, aboard a repatriation ship, an Army doctor reminisces about his war years while being interviewed by a reporter.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak
Votes: 1,093
12. Portrait in Black (1960)
Approved | 112 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
After a married woman and her lover murder her cruel husband, they find themselves targeted by someone who is aware of their crime.
Director: Michael Gordon | Stars: Lana Turner, Anthony Quinn, Richard Basehart, Sandra Dee
Votes: 1,791
13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Passed | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Jekyll allows his dark side to run wild when he drinks a potion that turns him into the evil Mr. Hyde.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner, Donald Crisp
Votes: 9,874 | Gross: $3.92M
14. Somewhere I'll Find You (1942)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two brother, rival correspondents, find themselves fighting their conservative editor over stories and each other of over the affections of a pretty blonde journalist.
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane
Votes: 977
15. The Merry Widow (1952)
Approved | 105 min | Musical, Mystery, Romance
Operating under royal orders, a count must woo a young and wealthy widow in order to save a kingdom from bankruptcy.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas, Una Merkel, Richard Haydn
Votes: 668
16. A Life of Her Own (1950)
Passed | 108 min | Drama, Mystery
A girl from Kansas arrives in New York City to become a model. Her further success brings her before moral choice.
Director: George Cukor | Stars: Lana Turner, Ray Milland, Tom Ewell, Louis Calhern
Votes: 1,351
17. Johnny Eager (1941)
Passed | 107 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
The step-daughter of a district attorney falls in love with a gangster on parole who her father originally imprisoned.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold, Van Heflin
Votes: 3,420
18. Mr. Imperium (1951)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Musical, Mystery
A beautiful romance between a singer and a persistent prince
Director: Don Hartman | Stars: Lana Turner, Ezio Pinza, Marjorie Main, Barry Sullivan
Votes: 571
19. Marriage Is a Private Affair (1944)
Passed | 116 min | Mystery, Romance, War
Theo has had many boyfriends who wanted to marry her. Since her mother, Mrs. Selworth, has been married many times, Theo is unsure of commitment. Without much thought, she finally accepts ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Lana Turner, James Craig, John Hodiak, Frances Gifford
Votes: 410
20. The Rains of Ranchipur (1955)
Approved | 104 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Despite marital problems, English Lord Albert Esketh and his rich American socialite wife Lady Edwina Esketh travel to India to buy a prize horse from the ruler of Ranchipur.
Director: Jean Negulesco | Stars: Lana Turner, Richard Burton, Fred MacMurray, Joan Caulfield
Votes: 1,154
21. Cass Timberlane (1947)
Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance
Judge Cass Timberlane marries a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, Virginia Marshland. After their baby is stillborn, Virginia turns more and more to Cass' attorney friend Bradd Criley... See full summary »
Director: George Sidney | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Lana Turner, Zachary Scott, Tom Drake
Votes: 1,107
22. Slightly Dangerous (1943)
Passed | 94 min | Comedy, Romance
Peggy is 21 and bored. She has just been awarded a certificate for starting work on time for 1000 days. She decides that she needs a change so she leaves a note, which is taken to be ... See full summary »
Director: Wesley Ruggles | Stars: Lana Turner, Robert Young, Walter Brennan, May Whitty
Votes: 882
23. Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)
Passed | 93 min | Drama, War
A disparate group of women try to adjust to their new lives after enlisting in the Women's Army Corps.
Director: Edward Buzzell | Stars: Lana Turner, Laraine Day, Susan Peters, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 604
24. Two Girls on Broadway (1940)
Passed | 73 min | Musical, Mystery, Romance
Eddie sells his song to a Broadway producer and also lands a job dancing in the musical. He sends for his dance partner-fiancée Molly who brings her younger sister Pat. Upon seeing Molly ... See full summary »
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Lana Turner, Joan Blondell, George Murphy, Kent Taylor
Votes: 504
25. The Lady Takes a Flyer (1958)
Approved | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Husband and wife pilots Mike Dandridge and Maggie Colby try to balance their time and priorities between work and family life.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Lana Turner, Jeff Chandler, Richard Denning, Andra Martin
Votes: 224
26. Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Passed | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
Andy has problems raising the last payment for a used car and juggling three pretty girls with an upcoming country club dance scheduled.
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker
Votes: 2,056
27. Dancing Co-Ed (1939)
Passed | 84 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
After discovering his star dancer is expecting and can't perform, film producer H.W. Workman and his publicist concoct a scheme to stage a college dance contest to find a new star.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Lana Turner, Richard Carlson, Artie Shaw and His Orchestra, Artie Shaw
Votes: 534
28. Latin Lovers (1953)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Music, Romance
Nora Taylor has $37,000,000 but thinks every man she meets prefers her bankbook figure to her own, and that includes her current fiancé, Paul Chevron, who has $48,000,000 of his own. Paul ... See full summary »
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Lana Turner, Ricardo Montalban, John Lund, Louis Calhern
Votes: 586
29. Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
A hunch horse-player's marriage is threatened by his betting ways; in desperation, his wife becomes his bookie.
Director: Daniel Mann | Stars: Dean Martin, Lana Turner, Eddie Albert, Walter Matthau
Votes: 483 | Gross: $3.49M
30. Calling Dr. Kildare (1939)
Passed | 86 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Dr. Gillespie tries to teach Jimmy Kildare a lesson by tossing him into a street clinic. Only Kildare gets called to take a bullet out of a suspected murderer, and when the cops collar him ... See full summary »
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lionel Barrymore, Laraine Day, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 583
31. We Who Are Young (1940)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Two young office workers working at the same large firm secretly marry and defy their employer's policy against coworker fraternization. When the marriage is discovered, Margy (Turner) is ... See full summary »
Director: Harold S. Bucquet | Stars: Lana Turner, John Shelton, Gene Lockhart, Grant Mitchell
Votes: 373
32. Betrayed (1954)
Approved | 108 min | Drama, History, Mystery
A Dutch intelligence officer recruits an Allied woman to act as liaison with dashing Resistance leader "The Scarf" for a British attack on Arnhem.
Director: Gottfried Reinhardt | Stars: Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Victor Mature, Louis Calhern
Votes: 1,332 | Gross: $1.97M
33. Diane (1956)
Approved | 110 min | Drama, History, Mystery
In the sixteenth century, a noblewoman has a love affair with the French King.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Lana Turner, Pedro Armendáriz, Roger Moore, Marisa Pavan
Votes: 522
34. By Love Possessed (1961)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Mystery
Neurotic woman engages in an affair with the law partner of her impotent husband.
Director: John Sturges | Stars: Lana Turner, Jason Robards, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., George Hamilton
Votes: 643
35. Dramatic School (1938)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Romance
Aspiring actress Louise Mauban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at night. She daydreams and "acts" her way ... See full summary »
Director: Robert B. Sinclair | Stars: Luise Rainer, Paulette Goddard, Alan Marshal, Lana Turner
Votes: 476
36. Flame and the Flesh (1954)
Approved | 104 min | Drama, Mystery
American woman in Europe romanced by local gigolo; problems ensue.
Director: Richard Brooks | Stars: Lana Turner, Pier Angeli, Carlos Thompson, Bonar Colleano
Votes: 139 | Gross: $1.30M
37. Another Time, Another Place (1958)
Approved | 91 min | Drama, Romance, War
An American war correspondent falls in love with a BBC reporter, but their relationship seems doomed from the start.
Director: Lewis Allen | Stars: Lana Turner, Barry Sullivan, Glynis Johns, Sean Connery
Votes: 888
38. Love Has Many Faces (1965)
Not Rated | 104 min | Drama, Mystery
Rich playgirl Kit Jordan (nee Katherine Lawson Chandler) is in Acapulco vacationing with her current husband, Pete Jordan, formerly an American beach boy working the Acapulco shores for ... See full summary »
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Lana Turner, Cliff Robertson, Hugh O'Brian, Ruth Roman
Votes: 509
39. The Sea Chase (1955)
Approved | 117 min | Action, Drama, War
As World War II begins, German freighter Captain Karl Ehrlich tries to get his ship back to Germany through a gauntlet of Allied warships.
Director: John Farrow | Stars: John Wayne, Lana Turner, David Farrar, Lyle Bettger
Votes: 3,419
40. These Glamour Girls (1939)
Passed | 79 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A drunken college boy invites a taxi dancer to spend the weekend at his snobbish school.
Director: S. Sylvan Simon | Stars: Lew Ayres, Lana Turner, Tom Brown, Richard Carlson
Votes: 514
41. The Prodigal (1955)
Approved | 112 min | Drama, Mystery
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.
Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Lana Turner, Edmund Purdom, Louis Calhern, Audrey Dalton
Votes: 745
42. Bittersweet Love (1976)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
Young married couple expecting a baby suddenly discover they are half-brother and sister.
Director: David Miller | Stars: Lana Turner, Robert Lansing, Celeste Holm, Robert Alda
Votes: 209
43. The Big Cube (1968)
PG | 98 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A former actress clashes with her wealthy and spoiled stepdaughter over their inheritance after the death of their protector.
Director: Tito Davison | Stars: Lana Turner, George Chakiris, Richard Egan, Dan O'Herlihy
Votes: 837
44. Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
A bachelor author of sleazy books moves to a family-oriented subdivision where he becomes an unofficial relationship advisor to unhappy local housewives, to the dismay of their respective husbands who suspect him of sexual misconduct.
Director: Jack Arnold | Stars: Bob Hope, Lana Turner, Janis Paige, Jim Hutton
Votes: 1,891
45. They Won't Forget (1937)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris, Otto Kruger
Votes: 1,942
46. Witches' Brew (1980)
PG | 98 min | Comedy, Horror
This remake of Fritz Leiber's novel "Conjure Wife" (previously filmed as 1944's "Weird Woman" and 1962's "Night of the Eagle" AKA "Burn, Witch, Burn") is more of a horror spoof, as three ... See full summary »
Directors: Richard Shorr, Herbert L. Strock | Stars: Teri Garr, Richard Benjamin, Lana Turner, James Winkler
Votes: 247
47. Persecution (1974)
PG | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A crippled woman takes pleasure in tormenting her son, blaming him for her condition. Years later, the son returns home with his wife and newborn only to find himself still under her influence and twisted from her prolonged mental abuse.
Director: Don Chaffey | Stars: Lana Turner, Trevor Howard, Ralph Bates, Olga Georges-Picot
Votes: 366
48. Rich Man, Poor Girl (1938)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A rich businessman wants to marry his secretary, but first he has to pass muster with her middle-class family.
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Robert Young, Lana Turner, Lew Ayres, Ruth Hussey
Votes: 395
49. The Adventures of Marco Polo (1938)
Approved | 104 min | Adventure, Biography, Romance
Adventurer Marco Polo travels to China, where he finds the Emperor Kublai Khan, court intrigue, danger, and unexpected love.
Directors: Archie Mayo, John Cromwell | Stars: Gary Cooper, Sigrid Gurie, Basil Rathbone, George Barbier
Votes: 1,162
50. The Great Garrick (1937)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
A Paris troupe puts on outlandish performances for a celebrated 18th-century British actor in order to convince him of their talents. The arrival of a countess complicates the plot.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Brian Aherne, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Everett Horton, Melville Cooper
Votes: 776
51. The Chaser (1938)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
While the county bar association discusses ambulance chasing by unscrupulous attorneys, one of its members, Thomas Z. Brandon, leaves when he learns the location of an accident. After ... See full synopsis »
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Dennis O'Keefe, Ann Morriss, Lewis Stone, Nat Pendleton
Votes: 140
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