Rosemary Lane

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Rosemary Lane (born April 4, 1913 in Indianola , Iowa , as Rosemary Mullican, † November 25, 1974 in Woodland Hills , California ) was an American singer and film actress of the 1930s and 1940s.

Career

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Rosemary Lane and her three sisters Lola , Leota and Priscilla sang their musical talents in the dream factories of Hollywood in the 1930s. For Rosemary and Priscilla, the journey there began with an engagement with band leader Fred Waring , with whose "Pennsylvanians" Rosemary made her radio debut in 1933 as a soloist. Both sisters often sang together, hence they were also known as the "Lane Sisters". Waring was, as it were, her door opener for Hollywood, as they could appear with his band in the music film Varsity Show (1937) and Rosemarie became a co-star of Dick Powell on the occasion . She sang for Powell in 1937 and 1938 on his radio show. This was followed by roles in around 20 films by 1945 - alone or together with her sisters Lola and Priscilla. The serial comedies Vater Dirigiert (1938), Four Wives (1940) and Four Mothers (1941), in which the Lane sisters acted as three of the four daughters of the Lemp family, should be emphasized in this context . Rosemary's role in George Abbott's Broadway musical comedy Best Foot Forward (1941) was also successful. There she played - irony of fate - a film star of dwindling importance. Looking back on 1941, Rosemary judged self-critically: "That's it, as far as it was my concern" and was probably referring to her rather second-rate films between 1941 and 1945.

She ended her career after 1945 and worked as a real estate agent for a while. In 1941 Rosemary married the Hollywood make-up specialist George (Bud) Westmoore (divorced in 1954). Rosemary Lane succumbed to complications from diabetes and lung disease in 1974.

Filmography

  • 1937: Varsity Show
  • 1937: Hollywood Hotel
  • 1938: Gold Diggers in Paris
  • 1938: Father conducts (Four Daughters)
  • 1938: Swingtime in the Movies (short film)
  • 1939: Blackwell's Island
  • 1939: Oklahoma Kid (The Oklahoma Kid)
  • 1939: Four daughters clean up (Daughters Courageous)
  • 1939: The second life of Dr. X (The Return of Dr. X)
  • 1939: Four Wives
  • 1940: An Angel from Texas
  • 1940: Ladies Must Live
  • 1940: The Boys from Syracuse
  • 1940: Always a Bride
  • 1941: Four Mothers
  • 1943: Time Out for Rhythm
  • 1943: Chatterbox
  • 1943: All by Myself
  • 1943: Harvest Melody
  • 1944: Trocadero
  • 1945: Sing Me a Song of Texas

Web links

Commons : Rosemary Lane  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Findagrave.com: Rosemary Lane. Retrieved on March 18, 2020 (The information there, including a photo of the tombstone, corresponds to the age given in their obituaries in 1974, given as 61 years. Other sources, deviating from this, mention 1914 or 1916 as the year of birth.).
  2. ^ Dick Westergaard, "Dialing" - Clipped From The Des Moines Register . In: The Des Moines Register . Des Moines, Iowa May 7, 1933 p. 41 ( newspapers.com [accessed March 18, 2020] There: "Rosemary Lane (...) made her debut as a soloist last week. She and her sister now singing with Waring's Pennsylvanians.").
  3. ↑ a b Kinkle, Roger D .: The complete encyclopedia of popular music and jazz, 1900-1950. L through Z . 1st edition. tape 3 . Arlington House Publishers, New Rochelle 1974, ISBN 0-87000-229-5 , pp. 1287 ( worldcat.org ).
  4. ↑ a b Rosemary Lane of Singing Lanes Dies . In: The New York Times . November 27, 1974, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed March 18, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Lane, Rosemary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mullican, Rosemary (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American singer and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Indianola , Iowa ,
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1974
Place of death Woodland Hills , California