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Rosemary Lane (born Rosemary Mullican;[1] April 4, 1913 – November 25, 1974) was an American actress and one of the Lane Sisters with her sisters Leota, Lola, and Priscilla Lane.[2] She appeared in films from the 1930s to 1940s.

Rosemary Lane
Trailer for Four Daughters (1938)
Born	Rosemary Mullican (1913-04-04)April 4, 1913 Indianola, Iowa, U.S.
Died	November 25, 1974(1974-11-25) (aged 61) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Resting place	Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1937–1945
Spouse	Bud Westmore ​ ​ (m. 1941; div. 1954)​
Children	1

Early years

Rosemary and one of her sisters, Priscilla, traveled to Des Moines every weekend to study dancing with Rose Lorenz, a renowned dance teacher[3] at the time. The girls made their first professional appearance September 30, 1930, at Des Moines' Paramount Theater. Rosemary, then 17, performed on stage as part of the entertainment accompanying the release of her sister Lola's Hollywood movie Good News (1930). Rosemary, a member of the National Honor Society, graduated from Indianola High in 1931 and attended Simpson College for a while, playing on the freshman basketball team.[3]

In the meantime, Cora had left her husband and in 1932, accompanied by Rosemary, arrived in New York. Cora immediately went to work pushing her two young daughters into attending auditions for various prospective Broadway productions, without success. It was while the girls were trying out numbers at a music publishing office that Fred Waring, an orchestra leader, heard them harmonizing. He found them attractive and individually talented. In early 1933 with Cora's approval they were signed to a contract with Waring. Cora acted as chaperone to Rosemary and Priscilla who at this time adopted the name Lane.

Fred Waring not only toured with his band, known as "The Pennsylvanians", but had a weekly radio show. Priscilla quickly became known as the comedienne of the group. Rosemary sang the ballads while Priscilla performed the swing numbers and wisecracked with Waring and various guests. Dr. Mullican instituted divorce proceedings against his wife on the grounds of desertion, and the divorce was granted in 1933.

Film career

Rosemary and Priscilla remained with Fred Waring for almost five years. In 1937, Waring was engaged by Warner Bros. in Hollywood to appear with his entire band in Varsity Show, a musical starring Dick Powell. Both Rosemary and Priscilla were tested and awarded feature roles in the film. Rosemary shared the romantic passages with Powell, while Priscilla played a high-spirited college girl.

Warner Bros. purchased Priscilla and Rosemary's contract from Fred Waring and signed them to seven-year pacts.[4] Rosemary's first film after Varsity Show was the musical Hollywood Hotel, in which she co-starred with sister Lola and former co-star Dick Powell, before starring in Gold Diggers in Paris, opposite Rudy Vallee.

Also in 1938, Priscilla, Rosemary and third sister Lola Lane appeared as three of four sisters (the fourth being Gale Page) in Four Daughters, the similarly themed Daughters Courageous the following year, and two sequels to Four Daughters a few years later, Four Wives and Four Mothers.

Upon completion of this film Warners sent Priscilla, Rosemary, Errol Flynn, and Ann Sheridan among others on a personal appearance tour in conjunction with the release of Flynn's first western Dodge City.

Rosemary earned good reviews for 1940's The Boys from Syracuse, based on Rodgers and Hart's Broadway hit of 1938. The next year she made an unusual move for a film actress of her era by becoming a Broadway star in the musical Best Foot Forward, as Gale Joy, which opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 1, 1941. It closed after 326 performances on the fourth of July 1942. However she lost the subsequent movie role to Lucille Ball. Good movie roles dwindled and Rosemary closed out her film career in 1945 with Sing Me a Song of Texas, as nightclub singer Laurie Lang, the niece of a wealthy Texas rancher. She began a career selling real estate from an office in Pacific Palisades.

Personal life

Rosemary married Hollywood makeup artist George H. "Bud" Westmore on December 28, 1941.[5] The marriage lasted 13 years and produced a daughter. She sued Westmore for separate maintenance in November 1952, saying he walked out on her four months earlier. Frank Westmore, in his book The Westmores of Hollywood, said Lane and Westmore "had been very happy, or so everyone thought, including Rosemary." The couple went through a messy divorce in 1954.[6]

Death

Rosemary died on November 25, 1974 in Woodland Hills, California at the aged of 61. She was buried in an unmarked grave at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California with a grave marker finally placed on 2012.[7]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1937	Varsity Show	Barbara 'Babs' Steward
1937	Hollywood Hotel	Virginia Stanton
1938	Gold Diggers in Paris	Kay Morrow
1938	Four Daughters	Kay Lemp
1939	Blackwell's Island	Mary 'Sunny' Walsh
1939	The Oklahoma Kid	Jane Hardwick
1939	Daughters Courageous	Tinka Masters
1939	The Return of Doctor X	Joan Vance
1939	Four Wives	Kay Lemp
1940	An Angel from Texas	Lydia Weston
1940	Ladies Must Live	Pat Halliday
1940	The Boys from Syracuse	Phyllis
1940	Always a Bride	Alice Bond
1941	Four Mothers	Kay Lemp Forrest
1941	Time Out for Rhythm	Frances Lewis
1943	Chatterbox	Carol Forrest
1943	All by Myself	Val Stevenson
1943	Harvest Melody	Gilda Parker
1944	Trocadero	Judy
1945	Sing Me a Song of Texas	Laurie Lang

References

External links

• Rosemary Lane at IMDb
• Rosemary Lane at Find a Grave

На других языках

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[de] Rosemary Lane

Rosemary Lane (* 4. April 1913 in Indianola, Iowa, als Rosemary Mullican; † 25. November 1974 in Woodland Hills, Kalifornien)[1] war eine US-amerikanische Sängerin und Filmschauspielerin der 1930er und 1940er Jahre.

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- [en] Rosemary Lane (actress)

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[es] Rosemary Lane

Rosemary Lane (4 de abril de 1914 – 25 de noviembre de 1974) fue una actriz estadounidense.

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[ru] Лейн, Розмари

Ро́змари Лейн (англ. Rosemary Lane; 4 апреля 1914 или 4 апреля 1913[1], Индианола, Айова — 25 ноября 1974, Вудленд-Хиллз, Калифорния) — американская киноактриса и исполнительница песен в фильмах[2]. Одна из четырёх «Сестёр Лейн[en]» (Лиота, Лола, Розмари и Присцилла).

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