After her very first movie role (in a bit part) at the age of 15, Lana Turner’s appearance in a sweater caused a critic to write that she “made a sweater look like something Cleopatra was saving for the next visiting Caesar”, and the nickname of “Sweater Girl” stuck. And in the following decades, it was hard to find a movie that didn’t include her in the cast. Here’s the look that started it all:
And the rest:
I think the reason for her popularity is understandable.