Priscilla Lane Bio

Priscilla Lane
Date of Birth

12 June 1915, Indianola, Iowa, USA

Date of Death

4 April 1995, Andover, Massachusetts, USA (lung cancer)

Birth Name
Priscilla Mullican
Nickname

Pat

Height

5′ 2½” (1.59 m)

Mini Biography

Priscilla Lane attended the Eagin School of Dramatic Arts in New York before she began touring with her sisters in the Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Dance Band. She was a popular singer with her sisters and, after 5 years, she was signed to a Hollywood contract with Warner Brothers in 1937. Her first film was Varsity Show (1937) where she had the hard task of portraying a singer with the Fred Waring Band. Priscilla was to play the nice girl against the temperamental star played by her sister Rosemary Lane. Over the years, Priscilla would play an assortment of girlfriends, daughters and fiancees. She would team with her two sisters, Rosemary Lane and Lola Lane, to make a series of drama’s beginning with the film Four Daughters (1938). That film would be the one that made John Garfield a star. In most of her films, all Priscilla had to do was to look attractive and give a good supporting performance. Priscilla would also co-star with Wayne Morris in three 1938 releases. In The Roaring Twenties (1939), she would play the girlfriend of James Cagney. In Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), which was release 3 years after it was filmed, she would play the fiancee of Cary Grant. When Alfred Hitchcock was unable to get Barbara Stanwyck, he cast Priscilla in Saboteur (1942) where she was on the run with the hero. By that time, her movie career was almost finished and she would appear in just a couple of films over the next five years before retiring in 1948.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Tony Fontana

Filmography:

  1. Bodyguard (1948) …. Doris Brewster
  2. Fun on a Weekend (1947) …. Nancy Crane
    … aka The Pretenders (USA: alternative title)
  3. Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) …. Elaine Harper
    … aka Frank Capra’s ‘Arsenic and Old Lace’ (USA: complete title)
  4. The Meanest Man in the World (1943) …. Janie Brown
  5. Silver Queen (1942) …. Coralie Adams
  6. Saboteur (1942) …. Patricia “Pat” Martin
  7. Blues in the Night (1941) …. Ginger ‘Character’ Powell
  8. Million Dollar Baby (1941) …. Pamela ‘Pam’ McAllister
  9. Four Mothers (1941) …. Ann Lemp Deitz
  10. Three Cheers for the Irish (1940) …. Maureen Casey
  11. Brother Rat and a Baby (1940) …. Joyce Winfree
    … aka Baby Be Good (UK)
  12. Four Wives (1939) …. Ann Lemp Dietz
  13. The Roaring Twenties (1939) …. Jean Sherman
  14. Dust Be My Destiny (1939) …. Mabel Alden
  15. Daughters Courageous (1939) …. Buff Masters
    … aka A Family Affair
    … aka American Family
    … aka Family Reunion
  16. Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939) …. Ellen Murray
  17. Brother Rat (1938) …. Joyce Winfree
  18. Four Daughters (1938) …. Ann Lemp
  19. Cowboy from Brooklyn (1938) …. Jane Hardy
    … aka Romance and Rhythm (UK)
  20. Men Are Such Fools (1938) …. Linda Lawrence Hall
  21. Love, Honor and Behave (1938) …. Barbara Blake
  22. Varsity Show (1937) …. Betty Bradley

 

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~ by moviesmusic on April 3, 2008.

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