In Lana Turner's Bedroom

When preparing a book on the subject, Gaby Wood travelled to the house of Hollywood femme fatale Lana Turner, to see if the place might yield up some clues about the fatal stabbing of Turner’s lover Johnny Stompanato by her daughter Cheryl Crane.

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