“My life has been a series of emergencies.”

— Lana Turner

Quoted in Wayne, Jane E.: The Golden Girls of MGM: Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly and Others (2003), p. 176.
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