Birthday:
05-21-1906
Deathday:
06-22-1981 (75 years)
Birthplace:
Macy, Indiana, USA
Biography
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The Lane Sisters were a family of American singers and actresses. The sisters were Leota Lane (October 25, 1903 – July 25, 1963), Lola Lane (May 21, 1906 – June 22, 1981), Rosemary Lane (April 4, 1913 – November 25, 1974) and Priscilla Lane (June 12, 1915 – April 4, 1995).
Lola, Rosemary, and Priscilla co-starred in four films together: Four Daughters (1938), Daughters Courageous (1939), Four Wives (1939) and Four Mothers (1941). Leota did not find the same success as her sisters and left Hollywood for New York City before the sisters' breakthrough. [Lola] was second lead to Bette Davis in the melodrama, Marked Woman, and won critical acclaim. Lola played the part of Gaby, a tough clip joint "hostess". Warners awarded her a contract in 1937 and her looks suited the hard-edged roles she found at Warners.
Lola continued her career into the 1940s with her tough girl persona in dramas such as Convicted Woman (1940), Gangs of Chicago (1940), Mystery Ship (1941), Miss V from Moscow (1942) and Lost Canyon (1942), although she desperately wanted to break away from her type-casting . She retired at the age of forty in 1946. Her last three films – Why Girls Leave Home (1945) as Irene Mitchell, Deadline at Dawn (1946) as Edna Bartelli, and They Made Me a Killer (1946) as Betty Ford – had her in supporting roles.
The above is from the Wikipedia article for "Lane Sisters".
The Lane Sisters were a family of American singers and actresses. The sisters were Leota Lane (October 25, 1903 – July 25, 1963), Lola Lane (May 21, 1906 – June 22, 1981), Rosemary Lane (April 4, 1913 – November 25, 1974) and Priscilla Lane (June 12, 1915 – April 4, 1995).
Lola, Rosemary, and Priscilla co-starred in four films together: Four Daughters (1938), Daughters Courageous (1939), Four Wives (1939) and Four Mothers (1941). Leota did not find the same success as her sisters and left Hollywood for New York City before the sisters' breakthrough. [Lola] was second lead to Bette Davis in the melodrama, Marked Woman, and won critical acclaim. Lola played the part of Gaby, a tough clip joint "hostess". Warners awarded her a contract in 1937 and her looks suited the hard-edged roles she found at Warners.
Lola continued her career into the 1940s with her tough girl persona in dramas such as Convicted Woman (1940), Gangs of Chicago (1940), Mystery Ship (1941), Miss V from Moscow (1942) and Lost Canyon (1942), although she desperately wanted to break away from her type-casting . She retired at the age of forty in 1946. Her last three films – Why Girls Leave Home (1945) as Irene Mitchell, Deadline at Dawn (1946) as Edna Bartelli, and They Made Me a Killer (1946) as Betty Ford – had her in supporting roles.
The above is from the Wikipedia article for "Lane Sisters".
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Marked Woman
Act like Dorothy "Gabby" Marvin
event1937 star_border 6.5
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In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
Deadline at Dawn
Act like Edna Bartelli
event1946 star_border 6.2
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A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
They Made Me a Killer
Act like Betty Ford
event1946 star_border 5.6
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A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
Hollywood Hotel
Act like Mona Marshall
event1938 star_border 5.4
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After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
Four Daughters
Act like Thea Lemp
event1938 star_border 6.5
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Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
Lost Canyon
Act like Laura Clark
event1942 star_border 5
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Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
Girls of the Road
Act like Ellie
event1940 star_border 5
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A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
Murder on a Honeymoon
Act like Phyllis La Font
event1935 star_border 6.2
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A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
Identity Unknown
Act like Wanda
event1945 star_border 5.8
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A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
Four Wives
Act like Thea Lemp Crowley
event1939 star_border 5.1
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In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
Buckskin Frontier
Act like Rita Molyneaux
event1943 star_border 6
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A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
Daughters Courageous
Act like Linda Masters
event1939 star_border 6.2
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Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her first husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
Four Mothers
Act like Thea Lemp Crowley
event1941 star_border 5.7
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Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
Convicted Woman
Act like Hazel Wren
event1940 star_border 3.7
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A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Act like Marjorie Temple
event1934 star_border 5.2
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Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich oil speculators who know her land actually is worth millions. When they try to put her out of business for good, young race driver Burn 'em Up Barnes comes to her rescue - again and again and again.
Death from a Distance
Act like Kay Palmer
event1935 star_border 4.8
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While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
Torchy Blane in Panama
Act like Torchy Blane
event1938 star_border 5.3
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Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
Mr. Chump
Act like Jane Mason
event1938
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A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
The Woman Condemned
Act like Jane Merrick
event1934 star_border 4.5
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When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman discovered with her is the culprit — everyone, that is, but newspaper reporter Jerry Beall, who sets out to prove her innocence.
Public Stenographer
Act like Ann McNair
event1934 star_border 4.5
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A stenographer who works at a large hotel finds herself caught in the middle of a major swindle.
Port of Lost Dreams
Act like Molly Deshon / Molly Clark Christensen
event1934 star_border 6
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A gangster's girlfriend on the run from the police, who suspect her of helping her boyfriend commit a robbery, holes up in a waterfront bar. She stows away on a fishing boat headed out to sea, and winds up falling in love with and marrying one of the fishermen, but doesn't tell him about her past. However, a year after they're married and have a child, her ex-boyfriend gets out of jail and comes looking for her.
Why Girls Leave Home
Act like Irene Mitchell
event1945 star_border 5
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In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she entangles herself with the mobsters who own the joint and learns too much about their operation. Her boss decides to kill her and make it look like suicide. An intrepid reporter disbelieves the report and exposes the truth to the public.
Ticket to a Crime
Act like Peggy Cummings
event1934 star_border 4
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After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the private eye, aided by his comely secretary, vies with a bumbling police detective to find the murderer among several suspects, including the dead man's daughter, her current husband, her former husband, and an ex-convict.
When Were You Born
Act like Nita Kenton
event1938 star_border 5.2
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A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.
Good News
Act like Pat
event1930 star_border 5
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A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2004 star_border 7
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Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.
The Big Fight
Act like Shirley
event1930 star_border 3
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Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other boxing films in which the Champ gets involved in a frame-up and is asked to take a dive.
His Night Out
Act like Lola
event1935
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When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
Ex-Bad Boy
Act like Letta Lardo
event1931
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A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his small town.
Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Act like Lila Beaumont
event1929 star_border 3
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Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.
Miss V from Moscow
Act like Vera Marova
event1942 star_border 5
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Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
Alias Mary Dow
Act like Minnie
event1935 star_border 6.2
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A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
The Sheik Steps Out
Act like Phyllis 'Flip' Murdock
event1937 star_border 4
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In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
The Girl from Havana
Act like Joan Anders
event1929
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Joan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a musical comedy troupe to capture a gang of jewel thieves.
Steppin' in Society
Act like The Duchess
event1945
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In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
Mystery Ship
Act like Patricia Marshall
event1941
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FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.
Gangs of Chicago
Act like June Whitaker
event1940 star_border 5.3
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A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
In Paris, A.W.O.L.
Act like Lola
event1936
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Three vaudeville actors after being suspected of a jewel theft and going off to war in 1917 are reconciled in 1917.
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Act like Herself
event1942 star_border 6
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Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
The Costello Case
Act like Mollie
event1930
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An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
Speakeasy
Act like Alice Woods
event1929 star_border 5
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Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.
Let's Go Places
Act like Marjorie Lorraine
event1930
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A musical comedy in which a young and ambitious singer impersonates a famous operatic tenor.
Zanzibar
Act like Jan Browning
event1940
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A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
Hell Bound
Act like Platinum Reed
event1931
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Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.
The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
Act like Self
event1930
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This short was included on the recently released Harry Langdon: Lost and Found collection. This entertainment show features various Hollywood stars and this episode includes Langdon, Lola Lane, Harry Jolson, Lew Cody and Armida. There's really nothing too special here with the exception of it being of minor historic interest.
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