Leota Lane
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Leota Lane | |
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 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.
Early years
[edit]Rosemary was born in Indianola, Iowa, in 1903, to dentist Lorenzo Mullican and his wife, Cora Bell Hicks.[2] 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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[3] Leota later followed her sister to Hollywood where she made her 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.[5]
Personal life
[edit]Leota was married three times. She married her first husband Mischel D. Picard in 1928, they later divorced in 1930.[6][7]. Her second husband Edward Joseph Pitts in 1941, and her third husband was Jerome Day, they were married until her death in 1963.
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.[8]
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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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
- Leota Lane at Find a Grave