He is best known for The Jazz Singer (1927), the first of the new talkies that changed the course of film history.
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His movies and TV shows were surreal trips, reflecting a twisted yet lyrical and idiosyncratic mind that saw the film medium and its surrounding world like nobody else.
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Turner, Time Magazine’s Man of the Year in 1991, transformed the world of TV, inventing 24-hour news with CNN and pioneering national basic cable.
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Movie Stars: Russell, Jane–Sex Symbol of 1940s and 1950s
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Jane Russell played Dorothy Shaw in the hit film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) opposite Marilyn Monroe for 20th Century Fox.
