Priscilla Lane
Priscilla Lane ( born June 12, 1915 in Indianola, Iowa as Priscilla Mullican, † April 4, 1995 in Andover, Massachusetts ) was an American actress.
Priscilla and her sisters Rosemary, Lola and Leote were employed early in show business as singers and dancers. 1937 managed Priscilla and Rosemary the plunge into the film business to Hollywood. But unlike her sister, who played the temperamental star, Priscilla was set to the role of the pretty girlfriend, fiance or daughter. She played on the side of many film stars such as John Garfield, Wayne Morris, James Cagney and Cary Grant. In 1938, she appeared with her sisters Rosemary and Lola in the hit father conducts on. Her sister Leota had already played in the play, but was not suitable for the movie role. It was replaced by Gale Page. The film was so successful that he moved two sequels. In 1939, she was considered for the role of Melanie Wilkes in Gone with the Wind, but she did not get the role. The height of her film career came already in 1942. Having Barbara Stanwyck was not for the Hitchcock thriller saboteurs available, Priscilla got the role. After that, they still appeared in several films and trailed off her career in 1948.
Priscilla 1938 was romantically involved with the assistant director and screenwriter Oren Haglund. On 14 January 1939, the two were married in Yuma, Arizona. But the very next day Priscilla left her husband, the marriage was annulled in May. In May 1942, she then married the Air Force officer Joseph Howard. With him she had four children. After her film career, she accompanied her husband around the world to sing at his post for the soldiers. 19 years after the death of her husband died Priscilla Lane in 1995 from lung cancer. She was buried in Arlington National Cemetery next to her husband.