Priscilla Lane, attended the Eagin School of Dramatic Arts in New York, before she began touring with her sisters in the Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Dance Band. She was a popular singer with her sisters and after 5 years, she was signed to a Hollywood contract with Warner Brothers in 1937.
Her first film was Varsity Show (1937) where she performed as a singer with the Fred Waring Band. Priscilla was to play the nice girl against the temperamental star played by her sister Rosemary Lane.
Over the years, Priscilla would play girlfriends, daughters and fiancees. She would team with her two sisters, Rosemary Lane and Lola Lane, in the film, Four Daughters (1938). That film would be the one that made John Garfield a star.
In most of her films, all Priscilla had to do was to look pretty and give a good supporting performance.
Priscilla would also co-star with Wayne Morris in three 1938 releases. In The Roaring Twenties (1939), (video below).
In Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), which was released 3 years after it was filmed, she would play the fiancee of Cary Grant.
When Alfred Hitchcock was unable to get Barbara Stanwyck, he cast Priscilla in, Saboteur (1942) where she was on the run with the hero.
She would appear in just a couple of films over the next five years before retiring in 1948. After which, she followed her Air Force husband around from the world from base to base, singing at camp shows.
They eventually settled in New England and had four children: Joseph Lawrence (1945), Hannah (1950), Judith (1953) and James (1955).
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