Lola Lane Filmography

They Made Me a Killer

Actors: Robert Lowery, Barbara Britton, Frank Albertson, Lola Lane, James Bush

Synopsis: This Pine-Thomas Production was scripted by Geoffrey Homes (aka Daniel Mainwaring), best known as the author of the novel upon which the "film noir" classic Out of the Past was based. Robert Lowery plays victim-of-circumstance Tom Durling, in the wrong place at the wrong time when a bank robbery Read More

Identity Unknown

Actors: Richard Arlen, Cheryl Walker, Roger Pryor, Bobby Driscoll, Lola Lane

Synopsis: Predating 20th Century-Fox's Somewhere in the Night by at least a year, Identity Unknown is one of the first (if not the first) 1940s melodramas centering around an amenisiac ex-GI. Richard Arlen plays Johnny March, who returns from WW2 with nary a clue as to his true identity or the details of Read More

Steppin' in Society

Actors: Gladys George, Ruth Terry, Robert Livingston, Jack LaRue

Synopsis: In this crime comedy, a prominent judge's vacation is interrupted during a sudden storm that forces him to seek refuge in a shady nightclub where he is mistaken by the mobsters for a highly esteemed racketeer. Unfortunately, mayhem erupts when a moll recognizes him as the judge who sent her Read More

Why Girls Leave Home

Actors: Sheldon Leonard, Pamela Blake, Paul Guilfoyle

Synopsis: In this crime drama a young woman leaves her unhappy life at home to become a sophisticated night club singer. Her first job is nearly fatal when she entangles herself with the mobsters who own the joint and learns too much about their operation. Her boss decides to kill her and make it look like Read More

Lost Canyon

Actors: William "Hopalong" Boyd, Jay Kirby, Andy Clyde, Lola Lane, Douglas Fowley

Synopsis: A virtual remake of Rustlers' Valley (1937), this average "Hopalong Cassidy" Western features Jay Kirby as Johnny Travers, a Hoppy associate framed for a bank robbery and supposedly killed during the ensuing chase. Johnny, however, to Hoppy and California Carlson's (Andy Clyde) great relief Read More

Buckskin Frontier

Actors: Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Lee J. Cobb, Victor Jory

Synopsis: Originally slated for Paramount release, Buckskin Frontier was ultimately distributed by United Artists. Richard Dix stars as railroad troubleshooter Stephen Bent, assigned to supervise the building of 120 miles of track through the treacherous Santa Fe cutoff. He is opposed in this mission by Read More

Miss V from Moscow

Actors: Lola Lane, Noel Madison, Howard Banks, Paul Weigel

Synopsis: Miss V From Moscow was singled out by B-film historian Don Miller as "one of the worst movies ever made by any standards, certainly the worst movie of its year." Seen today, the film seems to be simply another mediocre wartime meller from the cramped studios of PRC. Lola Lane plays Soviet secret Read More

Four Mothers

Actors: Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page, Claude Rains

Synopsis: Four Mothers was the last of three films inspired by Fannie Hurst's sentimental novel Sister Act. As in the earlier Four Daughters and Four Wives, the quartet of heroines-Ann, Kay, Thea and Emma Lemp-are enacted by real-life siblings Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola Lane, and by Gale Page as the Read More

Mystery Ship

Actors: Paul Kelly, Lola Lane, Larry Parks, Trevor Bardette

Synopsis: Mystery Ship was one of the last of Columbia's pre-Pearl Harbor "preparedness" melodramas. Paul Kelly and Larry Parks are cast as G-men Allan Harper and Tommy Baker, assigned to maintain control on a most unusual prison ship. The "passengers" are crooks and saboteurs who've been designated as Read More

Zanzibar

Actors: Lola Lane, James Craig, Eduardo Ciannelli, Tom Fadden, Robert C. Fischer

Synopsis: Lola Lane and James Craig play explorers working on behalf of the British government. Lane and Craig have been assigned to venture deep into the wilds of Africa to retrieve the sacred skull of a long-deceased Sultan. Whoever possesses the skull will have total control over the native Read More

Gangs of Chicago

Actors: Lloyd Nolan, Barton MacLane, Lola Lane, Ray Middleton, Astrid Allwyn

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a young man becomes a criminal lawyer after witnessing the police shooting of his father, a thief. Most of his clients are criminals and he soon finds himself involved with a mob boss. Together they build a new crime syndicate. Unfortunately, the attorney's partner is secretly Read More

Girls of the Road

Actors: Ann Dvorak, Helen Mack, Lola Lane, Ann Doran, Marjorie Cooley

Synopsis: The lives of female hoboes in the Great Depression are chronicled in this interesting drama. In order to fully understand the travails of their existence, the governor's daughter dresses down and joins them. There in the hobo camps she experiences their aimless unlucky lives as they hitchhike Read More

Convicted Woman

Actors: Rochelle Hudson, Frieda Inescort, June Lang, Lola Lane, Glenn Ford

Synopsis: Convicted Woman was Columbia's annual "all girl" B picture, allowing studio executives to decide which of their female contractees would be retained and which would be dropped. Rochelle Hudson plays Betty Andrews, a jobless girl who through a series of unfortunate setbacks ends up in a girl's Read More

Four Wives

Actors: Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn, John Garfield, Frank McHugh, May Robson, Eddie Albert, Priscilla Lane

Synopsis: In this drama, the sequel to Four Daughters, the daughters are now adults. Three of the sisters rally together to find a new love for the fourth sister whose husband recently committed suicide. The widowed woman then discovers that she is pregnant with her deceased husband's child and this causes Read More

Mr. Chump

Actors: Johnnie Davis, Lola Lane, Penny Singleton, Donald Briggs, Chester Clute

Synopsis: In this lighthearted drama, a lazy trumpeter has developed a sure-fire system for making big bucks in the stock market. His system is appropriated by two bank officers, but for them, it doesn't work and they end up in jail. Fortunately, the trumpet player saves the day. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Torchy Blane in Panama

Actors: Paul Kelly, Tom Kennedy, Anthony Averill, Larry Williams, Betty Compson

Synopsis: With Glenda Farrell having temporarily taken leave of Warner Bros., the actress' signature role of fast-talking girl reporter Torchy Blane was taken over by Lola Lane in Torchy Blane in Panama. Also absent from the proceedings is Barton MacLane as Torchy's loudmouthed police-lieutenant boyfriend Read More

Four Daughters

Actors: Claude Rains, May Robson, Priscilla Lane, Lola Lane, Rosemary Lane

Synopsis: Fannie Hurst's Sister Act was the source for this money-making Warners weeper. The four daughters of the title are played by the Lane Sisters--Priscilla, Rosemary and Lola--and by Gale Page. All are musical prodigies, and all are daughters of master-musician Claude Rains. To help make ends meet, Rains Read More

When Were You Born?

Actors: Margaret Lindsay, Anna May Wong, Lola Lane, Anthony Averill, Charles Wilson

Synopsis: Astrology and murder meet head-on in the Warner Bros. programmer When Were You Born? When horoscope specialist Mary Lee Liang (Anna May Wong) predicts the death of importer Philip Corey (James Stephenson), her prophecy comes true in a surprisingly short time thanks to a mysterious killer. Mary Read More

Hollywood Hotel

Actors: Dick Powell, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Johnnie Davis, Ted Healy, Alan Mowbray, Hugh Herbert

Synopsis: In this lighthearted musical comedy from legendary director Busby Berkeley, Henry Bowers (Dick Powell) is a saxophonist in a jazz band who wins a talent contest. His prize is a ten-week contract with a movie studio, Miracle Pictures (whose slogan is "If it's a good picture, it's a Miracle"). One Read More

Marked Woman

Actors: Bette Davis, Humphrey Bogart, Isabel Jewell, Eduardo Ciannelli, Lola Lane, Rosalind Marquis

Synopsis: Bette Davis' famous walk-out from her home studio of Warner Bros. may have hurt her financially, but in the long run it paid off with bigger parts in better films. Like many Warners films of the period, Marked Woman was "torn from today's headlines." Specifically, it was inspired by the recent Read More

The Sheik Steps Out

Actors: Ramon Novarro, Lola Lane, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Burke, Stanley Fields

Synopsis: In this romantic adventure, a wealthy Arab sheik has a reputation for breeding some of the fastest horses in the world. Meanwhile, the spoiled daughter of a corkscrew magnate bets her British betrothed that she can find a horse that can beat any nag in his stable. She and her father then set out Read More

Death from a Distance

Actors: Russell Hopton, Lola Lane, George F. Marion, Lee Kohlmar

Synopsis: Eccentric professor Einfeld (Lee Kohlmar) is lecturing a select group of scientists at a darkened planetarium when one of the spectators is shot to death. Homicide detective Ted Mallory (Russell Hopton) can't get a straight story from the witnesses and refuses to allow reporter Kay Palmer (Lola Lane Read More

In Paris, A.W.O.L.

Port of Lost Dreams

Actors: Lola Lane, George F. Marion

Synopsis: In this drama, a gun moll eludes the pursuing police by hiding out on a fishing vessel. There she meets and falls in love with captain. They get married, and she quietly--he knows nothing of her past--goes straight. Trouble ensues when the police finally capture her. Though she has a baby, they Read More

Murder on a Honeymoon

Actors: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane, Chick Chandler, George Meeker

Synopsis: Though it wasn't RKO Radio's final "Hildegarde Withers" mystery, Murder on a Honeymoon represented the final appearance of Edna May Oliver as Stuart Palmer's spinsterish schoolmarm sleuth. This entry was wittily adapted by Seton I. Miller and Robert Benchley from Palmer's Puzzle of the Pepper Read More

Alias Mary Dow

Actors: Sally Eilers, Ray Milland, Henry O'Neill, Katherine Alexander, Chick Chandler

Synopsis: Little Mary Dow (Baby Jane, aka Juanita Quigley) disappears from hearth and home on her 3rd birthday. Eighteen years later, Mary's fatally ill mother Evelyn (Katherine Alexander) makes a deathbed request to see her daughter one last time. Hoping to grant Evelyn's final request, wealthy Henry Dow (Henry O'Neill Read More

His Night Out

Actors: Edward Everett Horton, Irene Hervey, Robert McWade, Jack LaRue, Willard Robertson

Synopsis: In this rather black comedy, a nervous office worker goes to a local quack for a check up and learns that he has only three months left to live. The mild-mannered man decides that if he is going to go, he is going to go with gusto. When he finds someone has robbed his boss's safe, he decides to Read More

Ticket to Crime

Actors: Ralph Graves, Lois Wilson, Lola Lane, James Burke, Charles Ray

Synopsis: This bottom-barrel quickie is elevated by its cast, comprised chiefly of old silent-film favorites. Ralph Graves stars as private eye Clay Holt, perennial "friendly enemy" of police lieutenant McGinniss (James Burke). Time and time again, McGinniss is forced to rely on Holt's expertise to crack a Read More

Public Stenographer

Actors: Lola Lane, William Collier, Jr., Esther Muir, Jason Robards, Sr., Duncan Renaldo

Synopsis: Wisecracking Public Stenographer Ann McNair (Lola Lane) spends most of her time fending off the Roamin' Fingers and Rushin' Hands of her employers. En route to another job, Ann's car stalls on a lonely stretch of road. She is rescued by handsome Jim Martin (William Collier Jr.), who at first Read More

Burn 'em up Barnes [Serial]

Actors: Frankie Darro, Jack Mulhall, Lola Lane, Jason Robards, Sr.

Synopsis: A serialized remake of a popular 1919 film, the 12-chapter Burn 'Em Up Barnes was simultaneously released as a 74-minute feature version. Jack Mulhall plays stalwart racing-car champion Burn 'Em Up Barnes, while top-billed Frankie Darro portrays his adopted son Bobbie. The two heroes take on Read More

Woman Condemned

Actors: Claudia Dell, Lola Lane, Richard Hemingway, Jason Robards, Sr., Mischa Auer

Synopsis: Slow moving, overly complicated, and badly acted in key roles, this low-budget melodrama from Poverty Row company Progressive Pictures was directed by silent screen actress Dorothy Davenport, the widow of the late matinee idol Wallace Reid. A girl detective, Barbara Hammond (Claudia Dell) is found Read More

Ex-Bad Boy

Actors: Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur, Jason Robards, Sr., Spencer Charters, Grayce Hampton

Synopsis: Any movie that teams Robert Armstrong with Jean Arthur is certainly worth at least one look. Armstrong plays Chester Binney, a small-town rube who hopes to impress local beauty Ethel Simmons (Arthur). Aware that Ethel is ga-ga about "men of the world," Chester invents a shady past for Read More

Hell Bound

Actors: Leo Carrillo, Lola Lane, Helene Chadwick

Synopsis: A "B" picture with "A" ambitions, Hell Bound stars Leo Carrillo as ruthless but basically decent racketeer Nick Cotrelli. Worried that singer Platinum Reed (Lola Lane) may know too much about his crooked operation, Cotrelli marries the girl so that she can't testify against him in court. Believing Read More

Let's Go Places

Actors: Joseph Wagstaff, Lola Lane, Frank Richardson, Walter Catlett

Synopsis: In this backstage musical, an aspiring actor comes to Hollywood to get his big break. Trouble ensues when he is mistaken for a famous opera star and given red-carpet treatment wherever he goes. He even stays at the singer's mansion until he gets his break. Unfortunately, he soon loses his Read More

The Costello Case

Actors: Tom Moore, Lola Lane, Wheeler Oakman, Roscoe Karns

Synopsis: Originally slated for release through Tiffany Pictures, James Cruze Production's The Costello Case ended up being distributed by Educational, a firm usually limited to cheap two-reel comedies. Tom Moore lays on plenty o' blarney as an Irish cop who befriends would-be burglar Lola Lane. Turns out Read More

The Big Fight

Synopsis: Produced by Fox Studios, The Big Fight was ultimately released by a lesser firm, Sono-Art. Lola Lane stars as manicurist Shirley, who only has eyes for lovable prizefighter Tiger (Guinn "Big Boy" Williams). Unfortunately, Shirley's weakling brother Lester (James Eagle) is up to his snap-brimmed Read More

Good News

Actors: Mary Lawlor, Stanley Smith, Bessie Love, Cliff Edwards, Gus Shy

Synopsis: The DeSylva-Brown-Henderson Broadway musical Good News was first brought to the screen by MGM in 1930. The scene is Tait College, where everyone is in a blue funk over the dilemma of gridiron star Tom (Stanley Smith). Since the only thing he's ever passed is a football, Tom is in danger of Read More

Speakeasy

Actors: Paul Page, Lola Lane, Henry B. Walthall, Helen Ware, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: Much of this drama is comprised of newsreel footage. It chronicles the exploits of a luckless college prize-fighter attempting to go professional. Unfortunately he is exploited by his dishonest manager. The innocent pugilist is eventually befriended and assisted by a pretty reporter who helps free Read More

The Girl from Havana

Actors: Lola Lane, Paul Page, Ken Thomson, Natalie Moorhead, Warren Hymer

Synopsis: The Girl from Havana is a kaleidoscopic early-talkie brew of comedy, melodrama, romance, and high-steppin' musical numbers. Lola Lane, a detective for a jeweler's protective association, disguises herself as a chorus girl and books passage on a Havana-bound liner. Her quarry is young Paul Page Read More

Fox Movietone Follies of 1929

Actors: John Breeden, Sue Carol, DeWitt Jennings, David Rollins, Lola Lane, Stepin Fetchit, Warren Hymer, Arthur Stone

Synopsis: In this musical comedy, a young man from Virginia who is heir to a wealthy estate falls in love with a girl who longs to be a Broadway star. He moves to New York to be with her but discovers that she's a lot more interested in her career than in settling down. Hoping to turn her gaze away from the Read More