Lola Lane

Lola Lane was an American actress who worked on stage and in films from the 1920s into the 1940s, one of the four Lane Sisters with Leota, Rosemary and Priscilla. Born in Macy, Indiana, and raised in Indianola, Iowa, she was discovered as a teenager by the vaudeville entertainer Gus Edwards, who renamed her and added her to his touring show Ritz Carlton Nights. She and Leota studied at a Simpson College conservatory, and by 1926 both were performing in New York. Lane worked vaudeville circuits, then Broadway in The War Song, where a talent scout saw her. A screen test followed, and in 1929 she made her first film, Speakeasy. Most of her pictures were Warner Bros. releases. With Priscilla and Rosemary she appeared in Four Daughters (1938), Four Wives and Four Mothers, and she acted opposite Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart in Marked Woman (1937). The comic book writer Jerry Siegel named Superman's Lois Lane after her.