In separate autobiographies, Lana Turner and her daughter Cheryl Crane recall their remarkable lives—and the fatal incident that almost ruined them.
The killing was ruled a justifiable homicide. But while Turner’s career continued to soar thanks to her casting in films like, Crane, racked with guilt and anger, justifiably blamed her mother for their new infamy. “Considering all that she and I had just been through, I suppose our relationship was destined to be like gasoline and matches,” Crane writes. “I wanted to defy anything she stood for.”
But remarkably, Crane found the inner strength to change. She went to work with her father at his Hollywood hotspot, The Luau. Over the next 15 years, she would rise to become vice president of her father’s wildly successful hospitality company. “I think I radiated what I was feeling, which was that I like myself, was proud of my work, and was determined to have a good time,” she writes. “I was discovering a profound truth; when you accept yourself, people accept you.
But relations between mother and daughter remained tense. Turner admits in her book that she came to rely too much on alcohol, while Crane wryly claims that the trauma of the Stompanato affair sent Turner permanently into haughty movie star mode, a character Crane referred to as L.T.
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