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Iowa-born Priscilla Lane (12 June 1915 to 4 April 1995) earned a reputation in Hollywood as a warm and affable figure and was the youngest of the four Lane (née Mullican) sisters, each of whom found success before the cameras (Leota, Lola, and Rosemary being the others). Yet it was Priscilla whose fame proved the most enduring.
Priscilla enjoyed her greatest screen success during her years at Warner Brothers, where she was arguably best remembered for starring opposite two heavyweights, James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart, in the 1939 gangster epic The Roaring Twenties. She compiled a formidable résumé by sharing the screen with, among others, Cary Grant, Ronald Reagan, Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, George Brent, and Jack Benny.
After departing Warner Brothers for a brief stint at Universal Pictures, she appeared in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1942 thriller Saboteur, reportedly over the director’s objections, as he felt she was too much of a ‘girl next door’ type for the role.
Following the Second World War, she largely retired from the film industry and eventually settled with her New England-born husband, former US Army Air Corpsman Joseph Howard, in Andover, Massachusetts. For a spell in the late 1950s, she hosted a daytime television talk show on WBZ-TV (Channel 4) in Boston.
She was laid to rest beside her husband at Arlington National Cemetery, her life a testament to the fact that not every Hollywood story requires a tragic ending.
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