Priscilla Lane

Priscilla Lane on the cover of an Argentine magazine (1945)

Priscilla Lane (born Priscilla Mullican June 12, 1915 in Indianola , Iowa , † April 4, 1995 in Andover , Massachusetts ) was an American actress . She became known through films such as The Wild Twenties (1939), Saboteurs (1942) and Arsenic and Lace Cap (1944).

life and career

Priscilla and her sisters Rosemary, Lola and Leota were early on in show business as singers and dancers. In 1937 Priscilla and Rosemary made the leap into the film business in Hollywood . But in contrast to her sister, who played the spirited star, Priscilla was set on the role of a pretty friend, fiancé or daughter. She starred alongside many great movie stars, such as B. John Garfield , Wayne Morris , James Cagney , Humphrey Bogart, and Cary Grant . In 1938 she appeared with her sisters Rosemary and Lola in the hit father conducted on. Her sister Leota had already played in the play but was unsuitable for the film role. It has been replaced by Gale Page . The film was so successful that it drew two sequels. In 1939 she was slated for the role of Melanie Wilkes in Gone With the Wind , but she didn't get the role.

In the next few years, Lane was particularly successful as a classic leading lady , for example alongside James Cagney in the crime film The Wild Twenties (1939). When Barbara Stanwyck was not available for the female lead in the Hitchcock thriller Saboteurs (1942), Priscilla got the role, which became one of her career highlights. She was seen as the newlyweds of Cary Grant in the comedy classic Arsen und Lace Cap, which was filmed in 1941 but was not published until 1944 . Then she appeared in a few films and let her career end in 1948.

Priscilla was in a relationship with assistant director and screenwriter Oren Haglund in 1938 . The two were married on January 14, 1939 in Yuma , Arizona . But the next day Priscilla left her husband, the marriage was annulled in May. In May 1942 she married the Air Force officer Joseph Howard. She had four children with him. After her film career, she accompanied her husband around the world to sing for the soldiers at his post. 19 years after the death of her husband, Priscilla Lane died of lung cancer in 1995 at the age of 79. She was buried next to her husband in Arlington National Cemetery .

Filmography

1937: Varsity Show

1938: Love, Honor and Behave

1938: Men Are Such Fools

1938: Cowboy from Brooklyn

1938: Father conducts (Four Daughters)

1938: Brother Council

1939: Yes, My Darling Daughter

1939: Four daughters clean up (Daughters Courageous)

1939: Dust Be My Destiny

1939: The Roaring Twenties (The Roaring Twenties)

1939: Four Wives

1940: Brother Rat and a Baby

1940: Three Cheers for the Irish

1941: Four Mothers

1941: The Dollar Rain (Million Dollar Baby)

1941: Blues in the Night

1942: Saboteurs (saboteurs)

1942: Silver Queen

1943: The Meanest Man in the World

1944: Arsenic and Old Lace (Arsenic and Old Lace)

1947: Fun on a Week-End

1948: Bodyguard

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personal data
SURNAME	Lane, Priscilla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Mullican, Priscilla (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	US-american actress
DATE OF BIRTH	June 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH	Indianola , Iowa
DATE OF DEATH	April 4, 1995
Place of death	Andover , Massachusetts