40 Gorgeous Photos of Rosemary Lane in the 1930s and ’40s

Born 1913 in Indianola, Iowa, American actress and singer Rosemary Lane is known for her performances with Lola and Priscilla as the Lane Sisters and Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians in the 1930s, and for her film career in the 1930s to 1940s.

Lane earned good reviews for The Boys from Syracuse in 1940, based on Rodgers and Hart’s Broadway hit of 1938. The next year she made an unusual move for a film actress of her era by becoming a Broadway star in the musical Best Foot Forward, as Gale Joy, which opened on Broadway at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on October 1, 1941. It closed after 326 performances on the Fourth of July 1942.

Lane closed out her film career in 1945 with Sing Me a Song of Texas, as nightclub singer Laurie Lang, the niece of a wealthy Texas rancher. She began a career selling real estate from an office in Pacific Palisades.

Lane died in 1974, in Woodland Hills, California at the age of 61. In 1942, a street in Burbank, California, was named Rosemary Lane in her honor. Take a look at these gorgeous photos to see the beauty of young Rosemary Lane in the 1930s and 1940s.