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Lola Lane

May 21, 1906 - Jun 22, 1981 (75 years old) in Macy, Indiana, USA

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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".

Known For

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Four Mothers
Thea Lemp Crowley
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Daughters Courageous
Linda Masters
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Deadline at Dawn
Edna Bartelli
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Ticket to a Crime
Peggy Cummings
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Four Daughters
Thea Lemp
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Hollywood Hotel
Mona Marshall
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Murder on a Honeymoon
Phyllis La Font
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When Were You Born
Nita Kenton
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Convicted Woman
Hazel Wren
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They Made Me a Killer
Betty Ford

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