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Priscilla Lane attended the Eagin School of Dramatic Arts in New York before she began touring with her sisters in the Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Dance Band. She was a popular singer with her sisters and, after 5 years, she was signed to a Hollywood contract with Warner Brothers in 1937. Her first film was Varsity Show (1937) where she had the hard task of portraying a singer with the Fred Waring Band. Priscilla was to play the nice girl against the temperamental star played by her sister Rosemary Lane. Over the years, Priscilla would play an assortment of girlfriends, daughters and fiancees. She would team with her two sisters, Rosemary Lane and Lola Lane, to make a series of dramas beginning with the film Four Daughters (1938). That film would be the one that made John Garfield a star. In most of her films, all Priscilla had to do was to look attractive and give a good supporting performance. Priscilla would also co-star with Wayne Morris in three 1938 releases. In The Roaring Twenties (1939), she would play the girlfriend of James Cagney. In Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), which was released 3 years after it was filmed, she would play the fiancee of Cary Grant. When Alfred Hitchcock was unable to get Barbara Stanwyck, he cast Priscilla in Saboteur (1942) where she was on the run with the hero. By that time, her movie career was almost finished and she would appear in just a couple of films over the next five years before retiring in 1948.

Joel West was born on 6 April 1975 in Indianola, Iowa, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for CSI: Miami (2002), Heroes (2006) and The Disciple (2010). He has been married to Anna Bocci since August 2002. They have two children.

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.

Hope Newell was born on 12 February 1921 in Indianola, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Charlie's Angels (1976) and Starsky and Hutch (1975). She was married to James Daly. She died on 27 December 2009 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

Leota Lane was born on 25 October 1903 in Indianola, Iowa, USA. She was an actress, known for Three Hollywood Girls (1931) and You're Next to Closing (1939). She was married to Edward Joseph Pitts, C. Mischel Picard and Jerome Day. She died on 25 July 1963 in Glendale, California, USA.

Patricia Ann Wenig was born on February 13, 1936 in Indianola, Iowa, the daughter of Curtis Meyers and Mabel (Hoffman) Meyers, and raised in Sacramento, California. In 1955 she went to study at a New York television production school and after graduation began working as a secretary for Benton and Bowles Advertising agency. Seven months later she became a production secretary on the new Proctor & Gamble daytime serial The Edge of Night (1956). After one year she moved to the rank of production assistant on As the World Turns (1956). She left the show after a six-year stint moving to San Francisco where she worked at the CBS affiliate station for one year before going back to New York. She became assistant to the producer on As the World Turns' prime-time spin-off Our Private World (1965). Unemployed due to the cancellation of the show, she received a California call from Ted Corday and soon went to work for him as a production secretary on Columbia Pictures Television's Days of Our Lives (1965) and the short-lived Morning Star (1965)series. She ventured to New York again to function as a production assistant on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (1967)but returned to the West Coast four months later to be married. She married Michael Wenig on December 9, 1967 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Before joining The Young and the Restless (1973)'s production team in January 1973, she held posts on the production teams of various variety and serial programs. Wenig was an associate producer during the early years of The Young and the Restless, promoted to producer in January 1976 - working closely with legendary producer John Conboy taking care of the day-to-day operations of the then new hit show. She went on to serve as producer and supervising producer for 14 months at Days of our Lives (1981-1982) before moving over to John Conboy's Capitol (1982) as supervising producer from 1982-1986. Then, Wenig left the entertainment industry and moved to the Midwest with her husband and their children Jeff and and Sandy. Patricia Wenig died on March 27, 2015 in Hollister, Missouri, at age 79.

Hugh B. Evans Jr. was born on 18 October 1897 in Indianola, Iowa, USA. He was a producer, known for The Stranger (1920) and The Sagebrush Trail (1922). He was married to Ruth Allen. He died on 18 February 1929 in Los Angeles, California, USA.