BLONDE VS BRUNETTE
“Betrayed" Gives Audiences Chance to Decide Which Lana Turner They Prefer
Lana Turner, who rose to Hollywood stardom as a blonde glamour girl, recently has revealed a marked change both in the type of roles she plays on the screen and in the color of her tresses.
The erstwhile Glamour Queen has developed into a top-ranking actress, with highly acclaimed dramatic portrayals in “The Bad and the Beautiful” and “Flame and the Flesh.”
In her newest picture, “Betrayed,” filmed by M-G-M in color in Holland, with Clark Gable, Victor Mature and Louis Calhern in an all-star cast, Lana plays another demanding characterization as a girl who joins the Dutch Resistance during World War II.
As the cynical film star of “The Bad and the Beautiful,” she appeared as a golden blonde. As the worldly heroine of “Flame and the Flesh,” she switched to a brunette. In “Betrayed” she is seen as both.
The plot of the new drama calls for Miss Turner to appear first as the young wife of a wealthy Dutchman, and in these scenes she has blonde hair. Later, when she “doubles" for an espionage agent who has been liquidated by the Nazis, she is seen as a brunette,
Asked which hair color she prefers, Lana chooses the darker.
“I like being a brunette,” she says, “With dark hair I don't feel like a movie siar and it gives me a privacy I never enjoyed before. When we were filming 'Flame and the Flesh' in Italy, I could wander where I wished without attracting attention.
“It was the same when we went to Holland for 'Betrayed.' During an interval of a few days when I was not needed before the cameras, I flew over to Paris to buy some clothes. One Of the dresses required alterations and I arranged to come back for another fitting the following week.
“In the meantime, I resumed work in 'Betrayed' in scenes which called for me to be a blonde. When I went back to the Paris shop, the proprietress refused to give me the dress. She refused to believe that I was the same client. I had to rustle up a few credentials to convince her!”
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