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Lana Turner 100th Birthday TCM, beginning at 5 a.m.

Legendary actress and iconic bombshell Lana Turner would have turned 100 today (born Feb. 8, 1921, as Julia Jean Turner), and to celebrate, Turner Classic Movies becomes Lana Turner Classic Movies all day today — the network is offering 12 of the star’s films over 24 hours starting early this morning. The day begins with the romantic musical comedy Latin Lovers (pictured) (1953). The rest of the lineup is a nice mix of very recognizable Turner classics — such as The Postman Always Rings Twice, the 1946 film noir classic with Turner as a quintessential femme fatale; and the Oscar-winning drama The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), with Turner starring alongside Kirk Douglas — as well as lesser-aired films, like Honky Tonk, a 1941 Western featuring her first of four onscreen pairings with Clark Gable; The Big Cube, a psychological (and somewhat psychedelic) thriller from 1969; and some of her early roles in musicals like Ziegfeld Girl (1941), which began Turner’s rise as an MGM star.