Chapter 31 Section 4

Less than a month later, Mr Steele's gifts to Lana included a brooch, a bracelet and a ring, each adorned with the same style of diamond gold leaf.Lana asked, "Do you have a money tree?" Mr. Steele replied, "No, it's a money tree." Lana became more and more curious and wanted to know what the man she was dating was doing.Johnny Steele neither hesitated nor evasive, but at the end, Lana only had a vague impression that this Mr. Steele "seemed" to be in the record business. Lana started calling him "Jonny," introduced him to her friends, and finally, brought him to his mother and daughter.In a few days, the "new friend" said that he bought a horse. I wonder if Xue Luoer would like to learn to ride it?

Lana's heart skipped a beat. Isn't her daughter Xue Luoer just arguing all day to learn how to ride a horse? Johnny added, still casually, that the filly's name was Rowanna. Lana's heart skipped a beat again.She learned to ride a horse by herself a year ago when she was filming the film "Diane" (Diane, also translated as "Dream of the Deep Palace" in Chinese) at MGM. The horse's name was Luo Wanna, but only the film crew Few people know. The real surprise came when Lana saw the horse for herself, and it was the same "Rowana"! "How did you know? How did you get it?" This time, Lana didn't just keep her doubts in her heart.

Johnny Steele shrugged and smiled. Thirteen-year-old Xue Luoer fell in love with "Rowanna" immediately, and also fell in love with "Jonny" who picked her up at the school gate every day to take her riding lessons. Girl, it made Lana feel bad for a while. In the summer, Lana Turner got a call from 20th Century Fox producer Jerry Ward, asking her to play the role of Constance Mackenzie in Peyton Place. The film "Warm and Cold" is adapted from the novel of the same name published by the female writer Grace Metalier in 1956. It tells the story of three women living in a small town in the northeastern United States called "New England" after World War II. The life and love of Constance Mackenthor—the lonely and melancholy Constance, Constance's daughter Alison, and the Mackenthal's maid, Selena Klass from "From the Slums".Constance is forced to admit Alison's illegitimate child in court, exposing a secret each of the three women has been keeping for years.Themes of social inequality and class prejudice run through the story, which deals with rape, adultery, abortion, suicide, murder, and more.The novel sold 60,000 copies in the first ten days of listing, becoming the "second blockbuster in the American publishing industry" after "Gone with the Wind" in 1936, and topped the "New York Times" bestseller list for 59 weeks. "Place" has thus evolved into a synonym for "the place where dirty secrets are hidden" in the mouth of the American people. "Warm and Cold World" was later made into a series with 514 episodes in the 1960s, which was broadcast live from September 15, 1964 to June 2, 1969 on the ABC television station of the American Broadcasting Company.

The heroine of the film, Constance Mackenthal, is the mother of an 18-year-old girl, and all of Lana's previous roles, from a girl to a young woman, have never tried to be a mother.Lana was a little hesitant. She wondered if she was old enough to change the way of acting, and worried that her "youth meal" as an actress had already been eaten. How Lana finally made up her mind to take on the role isn't even clear to herself.In short, she walked into the studio of the famous director Mark Robertson, wearing the whole set of gold leaf and diamond jewelry given to her by Jonny Steele on her wrist.

One day a friend came to visit the studio and said, "Lana, you might tell me to 'go to hell', but I have to tell you - for your own good - something about your 'new friend' thing."