In the 1940s, Lana Turner had her own special table at Ciro’s on the Sunset Strip. “How I’d love to dress up and go dancing with a handsome dark man,” she recalled in her 1982 memoir. “When I was ...

“Would you like to be in the movies?” a stranger asks the 15-year-old girl sipping a Coke in a cafe near her Hollywood school. “I don’t know. I’d have to ask my mother,” she ingenuously replies. This, ...