Leota Lane
Leota Lane | |
|---|---|
 Lane in 1930 | |
| Born | Leotabel Mullican October 25, 1903 Indianola, Iowa, U.S. |
| Died | July 25, 1963 (aged 59) Glendale, California, U.S. |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Spouse(s) |
Michel D. Picard
(m. 1928; div. 1930)Edward Joseph Pitts (m. 1941; div. 19??) Jerome Day (m. 19??) |
Leota Lane (born Leotabel Mullican;[1] October 25, 1903 – July 25, 1963) was an American actress, and the oldest sibling in the Lane Sisters family of singers and actresses. Unlike her sisters, Leota did not find the same success and left Hollywood for New York City before the sisters' breakthrough.[2]
Early years
[edit]Rosemary was born in Indianola, Iowa, in 1903, to dentist Lorenzo Mullican[3] and his wife, Cora Bell Hicks.[4] She had four sisters: Dorothy (Lola), Rosemary, Martha, and Priscilla, three of whom later had careers in entertainment. Lane and her sister Lola graduated from a conservatory at Simpson College.[5]
Career
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Vaudeville entertainer Gus Edwards discovered them performing in a benefit concert in Des Moines, Iowa and put them on the road to their professional career.[6]
Leota and Lola then left to New York and both made their Broadway debuts in the late twenties, Lola in 1928, as Sally Moss in The War Song, which opened on Broadway on August 24, 1928, at the Nederlander Theatre (then known as the National Theatre) and Leota in 1929 as Contrary Mary in Babes in Toyland, which opened on December 23, 1929 at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre.[5] Leota later followed her sister to Hollywood where she made her first screen appearance in a comedy short film Three Hollywood Girls (1931) directed by Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, but soon returned to New York, where she later completed a BS degree in Music at the Juilliard School in May, 1939.[7][8] She originally also had a role in Michael Curtiz's Four Daughters (1938), as Kay Lemp[9] but the director replaced her by Gale Page.[10] She plays a role in You"re Next to Closing, another two-reel[11] Vitaphone production (1939),[12] a source errroneously presented as her "film debut" in certain sources.[8]
Personal life
[edit]Leota was married three times. She married her first husband Mischel D. Picard in 1928, they later divorced in 1930.[13][14] She married Edward Joseph Pitts in 1941, and Jerome Day, they were married until her death in 1963.[citation needed]
Death
[edit]Leota died following open-heart surgery on July 25, 1963 in Glendale, California, aged 59. She was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.[15]
References
[edit]- ^ Peak, Mayme Ober (October 25, 1931). "Cupid Descends on Hollywood And Finds the Hunting Good". Hartford Courant. Connecticut, Hartford. p. Part 5 - p 1. Retrieved May 24, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Liebman, Roy (May 20, 2015). Vitaphone Films: A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-0936-2.
- ^ Oral Hygiene. Robert C. Ketterer. 1938.
- ^ "My Neat Stuff - Webporium Hall of Fame". www.myneatstuff.ca.
- ^ a b "Goings-On in the Theaters". The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. New York, Brooklyn. March 3, 1926. p. 30. Retrieved May 25, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Lola Lane Boosted to Stardom". The Los Angeles Times. California, Los Angeles. April 7, 1929. p. 49. Retrieved May 25, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Four Daughters was Screened too Late for the Father Who Had Five of Them." New York Post, 8 May 1939.
- ^ a b Motion picture daily. MBRS Library of Congress. New York [Motion picture daily, inc.] 1939.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Billips, Connie; Pierce, Arthur (February 26, 2025). Lux Presents Hollywood: A Show-by-Show History of the Lux Radio Theatre and the Lux Video Theatre, 1934-1957. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-8771-4.
- ^ Soister, John T.; Wioskowski, JoAnna (September 2, 2015). Claude Rains: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference to His Work in Film, Stage, Radio, Television and Recordings. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-1278-2.
- ^ The Exhibitor (Jun 1939-Oct 1939) New England Edition. Media History Digital Library. Philadelphia, Jay Emanuel Publications, Inc. 1939.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - ^ Warner Bros. (1939). The Man Who Dared (Warner Bros. Pressbook, 1939). Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Warner Bros.
- ^ "New York Manufacturer Marries Leota Lane." New York Sun, 10 December 1928.
- ^ "Divorces." Billboard, 3 May 1930.
- ^ Wilson, Scott. Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons, 3d ed.: 2 (Kindle Locations 25047-25048). McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. Kindle Edition.
External links
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- Leota Lane at IMDb