In late 1937, LeRoy was hired as a senior executive at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and asked Jack L. Warner to allow Turner to move with him to MGM. [52] Warner agreed, believing that Turner would “lead nowhere.” [53] Turner left Warner Bros. and signed a contract with MGM for $100 per week ($1,800 in 2020 [43]). That same year, she was loaned to United Artists for a small role as a maid in The Adventures of Marco Polo.[54] [47] Your first lead role for MGM was supposed to be an adaptation of The Sea-Wolf starring Clark Gable, but the project was eventually put on hold. Instead, it was used alongside teenage idol Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland in Andy Hardy`s film Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938). [56] During filming, Turner completed his studies with an education social worker, which allowed him to graduate from high school that year. [57] The film was a box office success,[58] and her appearance in it as a flirtatious high school girl convinced studio director Louis B. Mayer that Turner could be the next Jean Harlow, a sex symbol who died six months before Turner`s arrival at MGM.

[59] How does it work? Does Allen Chu know? What will he do? If he suspends the contract, what happens to the father`s business? Noila Mo was in chaos. The material in the collection, which refers to each book, varies greatly in the type of material and volume. For some titles, researchers can trace the history of the book from first contact with the author and contractual negotiations, through production and printing, to newspaper clippings of book reviews after publication and publication of subsequent editions. For other titles, existing materials are scarce. In some cases, there is material for books that Grove considered (and may have had under contract) but ultimately were not published. In late 1947, Turner was cast as Lady de Winter in The Three Musketeers, her first Technicolor film. [134] [135] It was at this time that she began dating Henry J. “Bob” Topping Jr., a millionaire celebrity and brother of New York Yankees owner Dan Topping and a grandson of tin magnate Daniel G. Reid. Topping proposed to her at the 21St Club of New York by placing a diamond ring in her martini, and they married shortly after in April 1948 at the Topping family mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut. [136] [137] Turner`s wedding celebrations disrupted her filming schedule for The Three Musketeers, and she arrived three days late on set.

[138] [139] Studio Director Louis B. Wilkerson, editor-in-chief of the Hollywood Reporter. Wilkerson was drawn to her beauty and physique and asked her if she was interested in appearing in movies, to which she replied, “I have to ask my mom first.” [38] With her mother`s permission, Turner was referred by Wilkerson to talented actor/comedian/agent Zeppo Marx. In December 1936, Marx introduced Turner to director Mervyn LeRoy, who signed her with Warner Bros. for a weekly $50 deal.[42] .