Lola Lane

Lola Lane

Born: May 21, 1906
Died: June 22, 1981
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".

Movies for Lola Lane...

Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Title: Checking Out: Grand Hotel
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film boasted names like Greta Garbo, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery and John and Lionel Barrymore and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. This short documentary takes a look at the making of the classic film.
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They Made Me a Killer
Title: They Made Me a Killer
Character: Betty Ford
Released: May 3, 1946
Type: Movie
A fugitive receives help from a victim's sister as he tries to clear his name of robbery and murder charges.
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Deadline at Dawn
Title: Deadline at Dawn
Character: Edna Bartelli
Released: March 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A young Navy sailor has one night to find out why a woman was killed and he ended up with a bag of money after a drinking blackout.
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Why Girls Leave Home
Title: Why Girls Leave Home
Character: Irene Mitchell
Released: October 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she entangles herself with the mobsters who own the joint and learns too much about their operation. Her boss decides to kill her and make it look like suicide. An intrepid reporter disbelieves the report and exposes the truth to the public.
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Steppin' in Society
Title: Steppin' in Society
Character: The Duchess
Released: July 9, 1945
Type: Movie
In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer.
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Identity Unknown
Title: Identity Unknown
Character: Wanda
Released: April 2, 1945
Type: Movie
A soldier survives a bombing in which his three fellow soldiers were killed. When he recovers he discovers he has amnesia, and since his companions' bodies were burned beyond recognition, the army doesn't know which one of the four he is. He goes AWOL and searches out the families of the three dead soldiers, hoping to find out his own identity.
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Buckskin Frontier
Title: Buckskin Frontier
Character: Rita Molyneaux
Released: May 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A railroad man and the owner of a freight line battle for control of a crucial mountain pass.
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Lost Canyon
Title: Lost Canyon
Character: Laura Clark
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Burton is after Clark's ranch. He gets the banker to refuse to renew Clark's note and then sends his men to rustle his cattle. Hoppy is Clark's new foreman and is on to Burton's scheme. But just as he learns of the rustling and is about to go after the gang, the Sheriff arrives and arrests him for hiding Johnny who has been accused of robbery.
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Miss V from Moscow
Title: Miss V from Moscow
Character: Vera Marova
Released: November 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Set in the shadows of wartime Paris, this 1940s drama directed by Albert Herman stars Lola Lane, Noel Madison and Howard Banks. When a Soviet secret agent discovers her uncanny resemblance to a dead Nazi spy, she infiltrates the enemy and works to save U.S. ships from German submarines. Assisting her on her mission are French underground agents, along with an American serving in the British armed forces.
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Title: Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Character: Herself
Released: October 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
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Mystery Ship
Title: Mystery Ship
Character: Patricia Marshall
Released: September 3, 1941
Type: Movie
FBI agents Allan Harper and Tommy Baker are in charge of a group of subversives, spies and saboteurs that the US government is deporting to foreign countries aboard a ship. The deportees attempt to take over the ship.
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Four Mothers
Title: Four Mothers
Character: Thea Lemp Crowley
Released: January 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Four married sisters face motherhood, financial, marital and family issues together.
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Girls of the Road
Title: Girls of the Road
Character: Ellie
Released: July 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A story of the great-depression era about women hobos, tramps, job-seekers, fugitives and runaways running from or toward something as they hitch-hiked their way across the United States, dodging the police, do-gooders, lustful men and pursuing-husbands in a bad mood. One of them is a killer, another is a girl hitch-hiking to her wedding in order to afford a wedding gown, and there is also the Governor's daughter who crusades on their behalf, while hitch-hiking along with them.
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Gangs of Chicago
Title: Gangs of Chicago
Character: June Whitaker
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.
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Zanzibar
Title: Zanzibar
Character: Jan Browning
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A beautiful young woman organizes an expedition to Africa to search for a sacred skull that is worshiped by the locals.
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Convicted Woman
Title: Convicted Woman
Character: Hazel Wren
Released: January 31, 1940
Type: Movie
A reporter and a lawyer investigate a women's prison and help an inmate who does not belong there.
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Four Wives
Title: Four Wives
Character: Thea Lemp Crowley
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Four Daughters, Ann struggles to move on after the death of her husband as she falls in love with Felix, but on the day of her engagement discovers that she carries Mickey's child.
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Daughters Courageous
Title: Daughters Courageous
Character: Linda Masters
Released: June 23, 1939
Type: Movie
Nan Masters, a single mother living with her four marriageable daughters, plans to marry Sam Sloane, businessman. Out of the blue her 1st husband Jim returns after deserting the family 20 years earlier. The worldly wanderer Jim gets a cool family reception at first but his warm personality gradually wins the affections of his four daughters. In fact, youngest daughter Buff, who has her eye on a maverick of her own in Gabriel Lopez, is pleased when Jim grants his stamp of approval on her relationship. Buff plans to elope with Gabriel on her mother's wedding day, but 'unpredictable' is Gabriel's middle name.
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Four Daughters
Title: Four Daughters
Character: Thea Lemp
Released: August 9, 1938
Type: Movie
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.
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Mr. Chump
Title: Mr. Chump
Character: Jane Mason
Released: August 8, 1938
Type: Movie
A naive young trumpet player inadvertently becomes involved with bank embezzlers. Comedy.
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When Were You Born
Title: When Were You Born
Character: Nita Kenton
Released: June 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A San Francisco astrologer correctly predicts a ship passenger's death and then helps the police look for the murderer.
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Torchy Blane in Panama
Title: Torchy Blane in Panama
Character: Torchy Blane
Released: May 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Torchy, Steve, and Gahagan are on the trail of a bank robber aboard an ocean liner traveling from New York to L.A. via the Panama Canal.
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Hollywood Hotel
Title: Hollywood Hotel
Character: Mona Marshall
Released: January 15, 1938
Type: Movie
After losing a coveted role in an upcoming film to another actress, screen queen Mona Marshall (Lola Lane) protests by refusing to appear at her current movie's premiere. Her agent discovers struggling actress Virginia Stanton (Rosemary Lane) -- an exact match for Mona -- and sends her to the premiere instead, with young musician Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell). After various mishaps, including a case of mistaken identity, Ronnie and Virginia struggle to find success in Hollywood.
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The Sheik Steps Out
Title: The Sheik Steps Out
Character: Phyllis 'Flip' Murdock
Released: September 5, 1937
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.
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Marked Woman
Title: Marked Woman
Character: Dorothy "Gabby" Marvin
Released: April 10, 1937
Type: Movie
In the underworld of Manhattan, a woman dares to stand up to one of the city's most powerful gangsters.
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In Paris, A.W.O.L.
Title: In Paris, A.W.O.L.
Character: Lola
Released: April 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Three vaudeville actors after being suspected of a jewel theft and going off to war in 1917 are reconciled in 1917.
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His Night Out
Title: His Night Out
Character: Lola
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
When a meek purchasing agent is told by a quack doctor that he only has three months to live, he gets involved with a bank robbery and kidnapped by the gang.
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Death from a Distance
Title: Death from a Distance
Character: Kay Palmer
Released: July 3, 1935
Type: Movie
While a distinguished astronomer is giving a lecture in a planetarium, a shot rings out and one of the audience members is found dead. A tough detective and a brassy female reporter lock horns as they both try to break the case.
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Alias Mary Dow
Title: Alias Mary Dow
Character: Minnie
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi-dancer agrees to pose as a girl who had been kidnapped as a child 18 years before.
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Murder on a Honeymoon
Title: Murder on a Honeymoon
Character: Phyllis La Font
Released: February 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher and amateur sleuth suspects foul play when a fellow passenger on a seaplane gets sick and dies. The third and final film with Edna May Oliver and James Gleason as the astute schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers and the New York Police Inspector Oscar Piper busy solving crimes.
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Ticket to a Crime
Title: Ticket to a Crime
Character: Peggy Cummings
Released: December 14, 1934
Type: Movie
After a jeweler hires a private detective to help him find $50,000 missing from his company, he is murdered while attending a society party; and the private eye, aided by his comely secretary, vies with a bumbling police detective to find the murderer among several suspects, including the dead man's daughter, her current husband, her former husband, and an ex-convict.
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Port of Lost Dreams
Title: Port of Lost Dreams
Character: Molly Deshon / Molly Clark Christensen
Released: October 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A gangster's girlfriend on the run from the police, who suspect her of helping her boyfriend commit a robbery, holes up in a waterfront bar. She stows away on a fishing boat headed out to sea, and winds up falling in love with and marrying one of the fishermen, but doesn't tell him about her past. However, a year after they're married and have a child, her ex-boyfriend gets out of jail and comes looking for her.
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Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Title: Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Character: Marjorie Temple
Released: June 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Marjorie Temple, owner of a bus line and an apparently worthless plot of land, is set upon by rich oil speculators who know her land actually is worth millions. When they try to put her out of business for good, young race driver Burn 'em Up Barnes comes to her rescue - again and again and again.
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The Woman Condemned
Title: The Woman Condemned
Character: Jane Merrick
Released: April 3, 1934
Type: Movie
When a radio star is found murdered in her home, everyone assumes that the mysterious young woman discovered with her is the culprit — everyone, that is, but newspaper reporter Jerry Beall, who sets out to prove her innocence.
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Public Stenographer
Title: Public Stenographer
Character: Ann McNair
Released: January 9, 1934
Type: Movie
A stenographer who works at a large hotel finds herself caught in the middle of a major swindle.
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Ex-Bad Boy
Title: Ex-Bad Boy
Character: Letta Lardo
Released: July 15, 1931
Type: Movie
A man gets in trouble with his girlfriend when a beautiful movie star and her fiance come to his small town.
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Hell Bound
Title: Hell Bound
Character: Platinum Reed
Released: May 1, 1931
Type: Movie
Lane and Diane are a young married couple living in a coastal town whose lives are about to be torn apart by an old book of magic.
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The Costello Case
Title: The Costello Case
Character: Mollie
Released: October 14, 1930
Type: Movie
An Irish policeman handles gangsters, a mystery woman and a wise-guy reporter.
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Good News
Title: Good News
Character: Pat
Released: August 22, 1930
Type: Movie
A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
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The Big Fight
Title: The Big Fight
Character: Shirley
Released: May 11, 1930
Type: Movie
Based on the David Belasco stage production of the Max Marcin play in which heavyweight-champion Jack Dempsey played the role of the fighter, Tiger: This "behind-the-scenes look of a heavyweight-championship fight" looks much like all of the other boxing films in which the Champ gets involved in a frame-up and is asked to take a dive.
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Let's Go Places
Title: Let's Go Places
Character: Marjorie Lorraine
Released: February 2, 1930
Type: Movie
A musical comedy in which a young and ambitious singer impersonates a famous operatic tenor.
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The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
Title: The Voice of Hollywood No. 5
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
This short was included on the recently released Harry Langdon: Lost and Found collection. This entertainment show features various Hollywood stars and this episode includes Langdon, Lola Lane, Harry Jolson, Lew Cody and Armida. There's really nothing too special here with the exception of it being of minor historic interest.
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The Girl from Havana
Title: The Girl from Havana
Character: Joan Anders
Released: September 22, 1929
Type: Movie
Joan Anders, a girl detective for a jewelers' protective association, poses as a chorus girl in a musical comedy troupe to capture a gang of jewel thieves.
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Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Title: Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
Character: Lila Beaumont
Released: May 25, 1929
Type: Movie
Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.
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Speakeasy
Title: Speakeasy
Character: Alice Woods
Released: March 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.