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Rosemary Lane(1913-1974)

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Rosemary Lane in Blackwell's Island (1939)
Kitty Brown, the maid of Frances Lewis, a nightclub star, gets a Hollywood contract after Frances' fiance forbids her to appear in the club.
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Time Out for Rhythm (1941)
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Rosemary Lane of the singing Lane sisters (their actual birth name was Mullican) got her start as a vocalist with bandleader Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians. Her career was somewhat overshadowed by that of her more famous sister, Priscilla, who was also a member of that band and who would go on to bigger and better things. Both Rosemary and Priscilla appeared in the musical Varsity Show (1937)which featured the Waring orchestra and starred Dick Powell.

With a Warner Brothers contract in hand, Rosemary starred (with another one of her sisters, Lola) in Hollywood Hotel (1937), again with Dick Powell. While she did quite well, she and the rest of the cast were seriously upstaged by Busby Berkeley's sumptuous stage design and by the 'king of swing' Benny Goodman, whose orchestra was featured in no less than eight musical numbers. She then played second fiddle to Priscilla in a series of films featuring three of the four Lane sisters (Leota was the fourth): Four Daughters (1938), Daughters Courageous (1939) and Four Wives (1939).

After that, Rosemary called it quits, commenting "that was the end of it as far as I was concerned" ( New York Times, November 27 1974). Rosemary Lane eschewed Hollywood for Broadway and enjoyed a successful run as star of George Abbott's 1941 musical comedy 'Best Foot Forward', alongside Nancy Walker and June Allyson. Her part, ironically, was that of a sophisticated, but fading film star. After 1945, Rosemary settled down in Pacific Palisades and worked for a while selling real estate.
BornApril 4, 1913
DiedNovember 25, 1974(61)
BornApril 4, 1913
DiedNovember 25, 1974(61)
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Rosemary Lane and Dick Powell in Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Rosemary Lane in Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Rosemary Lane and Dick Powell in Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Rosemary Lane and Dick Powell in Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Rosemary Lane and Dick Powell in Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Rosemary Lane in Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Rosemary Lane and Dick Powell in Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Rosemary Lane in Hollywood Hotel (1937)
Rosemary Lane and Dick Powell in Varsity Show (1937)
Rosemary Lane and Dick Powell in Varsity Show (1937)
Rosemary Lane and Dick Powell in Varsity Show (1937)
Eddie Albert, Dick Foran, Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Frank McHugh, and Gale Page in Four Mothers (1941)

Known for

George Reeves, John Eldredge, and Rosemary Lane in Always a Bride (1940)
Always a Bride
5.2
  • Alice Bond
  • 1940
Evelyn Ankers, Neil Hamilton, Patric Knowles, and Rosemary Lane in All by Myself (1943)
All by Myself
6.3
  • Val Stevenson
  • 1943
Eddie Bartell, Sydney Chatton, Johnny Downs, Jimmy Hollywood, Rosemary Lane, and The Radio Rogues in Harvest Melody (1943)
Harvest Melody
5.0
  • Gilda Parker
  • 1943
John Garfield, Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, and Gale Page in Four Daughters (1938)
Four Daughters
6.9
  • Kay Lemp
  • 1938

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Actress

  • Noah Beery, Rosemary Lane, Slim Summerville, Tom Tyler, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, and Hal McIntyre's Orchestra in Sing Me a Song of Texas (1945)
    Sing Me a Song of Texas
  • Rosemary Lane in Trocadero (1944)
    Trocadero
  • Eddie Bartell, Sydney Chatton, Johnny Downs, Jimmy Hollywood, Rosemary Lane, and The Radio Rogues in Harvest Melody (1943)
    Harvest Melody
  • Evelyn Ankers, Neil Hamilton, Patric Knowles, and Rosemary Lane in All by Myself (1943)
    All by Myself
  • Joe E. Brown, Judy Canova, and Rosemary Lane in Chatterbox (1943)
    Chatterbox
  • Time Out for Rhythm (1941)
    Time Out for Rhythm
  • Four Mothers (1941)
    Four Mothers
  • George Reeves, John Eldredge, and Rosemary Lane in Always a Bride (1940)
    Always a Bride
  • Charles Butterworth, Irene Hervey, Samuel S. Hinds, Allan Jones, Rosemary Lane, Alan Mowbray, Joe Penner, and Martha Raye in The Boys from Syracuse (1940)
    The Boys from Syracuse
  • Rosemary Lane and Wayne Morris in Ladies Must Live (1940)
    Ladies Must Live
  • Eddie Albert, Ronald Reagan, Rosemary Lane, Wayne Morris, Ruth Terry, and Jane Wyman in An Angel from Texas (1940)
    An Angel from Texas
  • Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Gale Page, and May Robson in Four Wives (1939)
    Four Wives
  • Humphrey Bogart, Rosemary Lane, Dennis Morgan, and Wayne Morris in The Return of Doctor X (1939)
    The Return of Doctor X
  • Claude Rains, John Garfield, Fay Bainter, Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Gale Page, and May Robson in Daughters Courageous (1939)
    Daughters Courageous
  • James Cagney in The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
    The Oklahoma Kid

Soundtrack

  • Noah Beery, Rosemary Lane, Slim Summerville, Tom Tyler, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, and Hal McIntyre's Orchestra in Sing Me a Song of Texas (1945)
    Sing Me a Song of Texas
    • ("Sing Me a Song of Texas")
  • Rosemary Lane in Trocadero (1944)
    Trocadero
  • Evelyn Ankers, Neil Hamilton, Patric Knowles, and Rosemary Lane in All by Myself (1943)
    All by Myself
    • (uncredited)
  • Time Out for Rhythm (1941)
    Time Out for Rhythm
  • Four Mothers (1941)
    Four Mothers
    • (uncredited)
  • Rosemary Lane and Wayne Morris in Ladies Must Live (1940)
    Ladies Must Live
  • Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Gale Page, and May Robson in Four Wives (1939)
    Four Wives
    • (uncredited)
  • Claude Rains, John Garfield, Fay Bainter, Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, Gale Page, and May Robson in Daughters Courageous (1939)
    Daughters Courageous
    • (uncredited)
  • John Garfield, Lola Lane, Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Jeffrey Lynn, and Gale Page in Four Daughters (1938)
    Four Daughters
    • (uncredited)
  • Ethelreda Leopold, Helen Blizard, and Mary Rosetti in Gold Diggers in Paris (1938)
    Gold Diggers in Paris
    • (uncredited)
  • Hugh Herbert, Johnnie Davis, Glenda Farrell, Benny Goodman, Ted Healy, Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane, Frances Langford, Alan Mowbray, Louella Parsons, and Dick Powell in Hollywood Hotel (1937)
    Hollywood Hotel
    • (uncredited)
  • Rosemary Lane, Dick Powell, and Fred Waring in Varsity Show (1937)
    Varsity Show
    • ("Sing, You Son of a Gun" (1937), uncredited)

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Original Theatrical Trailer
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Varsity Show
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Varsity Show
Gold Diggers in Paris
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Gold Diggers in Paris

Personal details

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    • April 4, 1913
    • Indianola, Iowa, USA
    • November 25, 1974
    • Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA(diabetes and pulmonary obstruction)
    • Bud WestmoreDecember 28, 1941 - 1954 (divorced, 1 child)
  • Other works
    Active on Broadway in the following production:

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    Sister of Leota Lane, Lola Lane and Priscilla Lane.

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