Jaime Rose on why Lana Turner was sacked

[Angela Channing]

Recently, on social media, Jamie Rose responded to suggestion that Jane Wyman got Lana Turner sacked by making the following comment:

"I was there. I was a regular on the show and Lana played my grandmother. The problem was that Lana, as wonderful and gorgeous and glamorous as she was, was habitually late to set—as much as an hour or two. Jane was a consummate professional. She didn’t abide that kind of behavior. I was very disappointed to see Lana go because I just adored her, but I understand why she was let go."

She didn't say whether Jane was instrumental in getting Lana sacked, or whether it was a decision entirely of the producers, but whoever it was, it sounds like that had good grounds to do it.

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Yeah, a lot of us have heard both things. Both sound plausible.

Lana was used to the pampering dynamic of MGM, while Jane was used to the disciplined workaday expectations of Warner Bros.

Nolan Miller tells a story about NIGHT OF 100 STARS when Turner was so dilly-dallying there was almost dead air on the live show because they couldn't get her out of her dressing room.

Was that spoildness, fear, passive-aggression, or just an alternative psychology -- her head in the clouds? Or a blend of all of the above??

Also, Jane told Earl Hamner that Lana "isn't a lady" (all of her affairs, marriages, and murder, one supposes) and the idea that Jacqueline might have become "the other" queen of the valley for Season 3 couldn't have helped.