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Article: Obituary: Priscilla Lane
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 10, 1995
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Priscilla Mullican (Priscilla Lane), actress, singer: born
Indianola, Iowa 12 June 1917; twice married; died Andover,
Massachusetts 4 April 1995.
There were the Talmadges in the Silent era, Constance, Norma and
Natalie, but the most famous movie sisters have to be Joan Fontaine
and Olivia de Havilland. But before Fontaine emerged as a star, the
Lanes - Rosemary, Lola and Priscilla - were the best-known sister
act in movies, and Priscilla, the youngest of them, was briefly
Warner Bros' biggest female star after Bette Davis and de
Havilland.
Lane does not make all of the record books today, but if you
catch the superb matching of Cagney and Bogart in The Roaring
Twenties (1939) you will find ...