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American actress Priscilla Lane was trained for a musical career at Iowa's Simpson College. Shortly before graduation Priscilla and her sister Rosemary Lane toured as vocalists with the Fred Waring Band. In 1937, both Lane sisters were signed by Warner Bros. to appear in Varsity Show; they were cast as adversaries, with "nice" Priscilla impersonating "nasty" temperamental movie star Rosemary. A third Lane sister, Lola, joined her siblings and actress Gale Page to play the title characters in Warners' Four Daughters (1938), but it was Priscilla who was shown to best advantage by sharing the "fates are against me" scene with costar John Garfield. The actress had the good luck to work with some of Hollywood's top male stars during her Warners' tenure, including Cary Grant (Arsenic and Old Lace [1941]) and James Cagney (The Roaring Twenties [1939]).
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American actress Priscilla Lane was trained for a musical career at Iowa's Simpson College. Shortly before graduation Priscilla and her sister Rosemary Lane toured as vocalists with the Fred Waring Band. In 1937, both Lane sisters were signed by Warner Bros. to appear in Varsity Show; they were cast as adversaries, with nice Priscilla impersonating nasty temperamental movie star Rosemary.
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Cary Grant, starred, and Priscilla Lane, featured, are paired romantically. They open the picture getting married but are delayed in their honeymoon when Grant finds his two screwy aunts have been bumping off people in their house, burying them in the cellar and even holding thoughtful funeral ceremonies for them. The laughs that surround his efforts to get John Alexander, the "Teddy Roosevelt" of the picture, committed to an institution; troubles that come up when a maniacal long-lost brother shows up after a world tour of various murders with a phony doctor, and other plot elements make for diversion of a very agreeable character. Spicing are thriller-diller ingredients. In one sudden instance, when the action is tense, there was a spontaneous audience scream at the N.Y. Strand, where picture was caught, followed by laughs, which Capra apparently hadn't figured on. With no timing to permit for this, considerable dialog goes downstream as a result though doubtless of little importance.
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Priscilla Lane movies DVDs filmography available to buy at CDUniverse are listed below. Information on films includes: other actor and actress, star cast and crew information, reviews, director, photo of cover art, product pics and more.
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Outside her family, Priscilla was a busy woman. She was devoutly religious, having converted to Roman Catholicism, as had her sister Lola. The family attended church regularly, and she was involved with Catholic charities. She enjoyed tending her garden, growing flowers and vegetables. She ran a girl scout troop and volunteered at local hospitals. She had... become less outgoing as far as public life was concerned.
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Along the way, Lane married and quickly divorced director Oren Haglund, then married Joseph Howard, an Army flier, in 1942. She put her career on hold to be with him, and later gave up movie-making entirely to raise the couple's four children on the East Coast.
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