Priscilla Lane

Pretty Priscilla Lane captured in a newly restored tri-chrome sitting from November 1940. Lane was born on June 12, 1915, in Indianola, Iowa, the youngest of five daughters. She 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) and over the next decade, Priscilla would play an assortment of girlfriends, daughters and fiancees. She would team up with her two sisters, Rosemary Lane and Lola Lane, to make a series of dramas beginning with "Four Daughters" (1938) and also co-starred with Wayne Morris in three 1938 releases. In "The Roaring Twenties" (1939), she played the girlfriend of James Cagney, appeared opposite Ronald Reagan in the light-hearted comedy, "Million Dollar Baby" and as a night club singer in "Blues in the Night" (both 1941). In "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1944), she played the fiancee of Cary Grant and 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 starting to slow down and she would appear in just a couple of films over the next five years before retiring in 1948. In her later years she busied herself with volunteer work and her garden. Priscilla Lane was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1994 and passed away on April 4, 1995, aged 79.

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