1. Priscilla Lane is best remembered for her roles in the films The Roaring Twenties co-starring with James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart; Saboteur, an Alfred Hitchcock film in which she plays the heroine; and Arsenic and Old Lace, in which she portrays Cary Grant's fiancee and bride.
Priscilla Lane was the youngest of five daughters of Lorenzo Mullican and his wife, Cora Bell Hicks.
Priscilla Lane enrolled at the nearby Fagen School of Dramatics, and Leota paid the fee.
Priscilla Lane's name is said to be Catherine Hepburn [sic].
Priscilla Lane found them attractive and talented and soon signed them to a radio contract.
Rosemary sang the ballads, while Priscilla Lane performed the swing numbers and wisecracked with Waring and various guests.
Rosemary and Priscilla Lane remained with Fred Waring for almost five years.
Rosemary shared the romantic passages with Powell, while Priscilla Lane played a high-spirited college girl.
Also in 1938, Priscilla, Rosemary and third sister Lola Lane appeared as three of four sisters in Four Daughters, the similarly themed Daughters Courageous the following year, and two sequels to Four Daughters a few years later, Four Wives and Four Mothers.
Priscilla Lane was next assigned the lead in Brother Rat, which had been a very successful Broadway play.
Priscilla Lane's contract was terminated by mutual agreement after five years with the studio.
Priscilla Lane freelanced next, signing a one-picture deal with Universal Studios where she starred with Robert Cummings in Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur.
Hitchcock felt Priscilla Lane was too much the girl next door.
Priscilla Lane played the owner of a gambling house in 1870s San Francisco.
Priscilla Lane was generous with her talents and often performed at camp shows.
Priscilla Lane accepted the offer of the lead role opposite Lawrence Tierney in a film noir, Bodyguard, starring as Doris Brewster.
Priscilla Lane returned to show business briefly in 1958 with her own show on a local television station broadcasting from Boston.
Priscilla Lane enjoyed the television experience, but family demands proved too much, and she gave up after a year.
On June 14,1941, Lane's mother announced Priscilla's engagement to newspaper publisher John Barry, whom Priscilla had first met in 1939.
Priscilla Lane was scouting the area for likely sites for air bases and had taken a short vacation.
Priscilla Lane fell in love with New England, and the couple settled with their children in Andover, Massachusetts.
Priscilla Lane gave birth to a second daughter, Judith, on August 22,1953.
Priscilla Lane was devoutly religious, having converted to Roman Catholicism, as had her elder sisters Lola and Rosemary.
Priscilla Lane enjoyed tending her garden, and growing flowers and vegetables.
Priscilla Lane ran a Girl Scout troop and volunteered at local hospitals.
In July 1972, Joe Howard retired from business, and he and Priscilla Lane moved to their summer home at 7 Howards Grove in Derry, New Hampshire.
Priscilla Lane was still in the Air Force Reserve, which he had joined after his discharge from active duty in 1946.
Priscilla Lane was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors.
Priscilla Lane moved to a nursing home, Wingate, in Andover near her son Joe and his family.