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LANE, Lola (1906-1981)

LANE

Posted By: Karon Velau (email)
Date: 12/9/2018 at 15:08:02

Lola Lane (born Dorothy Mullican)
(May 21, 1906 – June 22, 1981)

Fairfield Ledger, Fairfield, Iowa, Thurs., June 25, 1981, p.3, col.1
Iowa-born Actress Dead
Santa Barbara, Calif (AP) – Actress Lola Lane, who died at the age of 75 after a long fight with inflammation of the arteries, has been buried in Calvary Cemetery. The former movie star, who was buried Wednesday, died Monday at her Santa Barbara home, leaving Priscilla Lane as the only survivor of the actress Lane sisters. Lola Lane was the first of the sisters to become famous in Hollywood. Rosemary Lane died in 1974, and a fourth sister, Leota, a singer, died in 1963. Another sister, Martha, who did not choose a show business career, also preceeded Lola in death.
Born Dorothy Mulligan, the eldest daughter of an Indianola, Iowa dentist, Lola sang professionally with her sister Leota in their home state. She wrote to songwriter Gus Edwards asking for an audition, and he launched her on a career as a follies performer and actress with the name Lola Lane. The first of her 37 films was “Speakeasy” in 1929. She starred in a series of films with her sisters from 1938 to 1940. She was married five times, to actor Lew Ayres, director Alexander Hall, yacht broker Henry Dunham, Roland West, and the man to whom she was married at her death, Robert Hanlon, a retired aircraft executive. In addition to her husband and sister, Priscilla, she is survived by four nieces and a nephew. A convert to Catholicism, she was honored by Cardinal Timothy Manning with Pope Pius X medal in 1967 for her work with religious training for the retarded.


 

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