![]() In 1937, Waring was engaged by Warner Bros. Rosemary and Priscilla remained with Fred Waring for almost five years. Priscilla Lane in Cowboy from Brooklyn, 1938 Mullican instituted divorce proceedings against his wife on the grounds of desertion, and the divorce was granted in 1933. Rosemary sang the ballads, while Priscilla performed the swing numbers and wisecracked with Waring and various guests. Priscilla, who at this time adopted the surname Lane, quickly became known as the comedienne of the group. He found them attractive and talented and soon signed them to a radio contract. ![]() During a tryout at a music publishing office, orchestra leader and radio personality Fred Waring heard them harmonizing. Cora immediately went to work pushing her two young daughters into attending auditions for various prospective Broadway productions, without success. In 1932, Cora and Rosemary arrived in New York. Neither Hepburn nor Sullavan were approved, and neither received a contract from MGM at the time. Margaret Sullavan, the Broadway actress, was there too!" A follow-up letter said that her test had proven unsuitable. ![]() Her name is said to be Catherine Hepburn. One was a strange looking girl with her hair slicked back in a sort of a bun. Priscilla wrote to a friend in Indianola, "Leota accompanied me to a sort of theater in a New York skyscraper. At this time, talent agent Al Altman saw Priscilla performing in one of Fagen's school plays and invited her to screentest for MGM. Priscilla enrolled at the nearby Fagen School of Dramatics, and Leota paid the fee. ![]() Priscilla, then 15, performed on stage as part of the entertainment accompanying the release of her sister Lola's Hollywood movie Good News (1930).Īfter graduating from high school, Priscilla was permitted to travel to New York to visit a third sister, Leota (the eldest of the five Mullican sisters), then appearing in a musical revue in Manhattan. The girls made their first professional appearance September 30, 1930, at Des Moines' Paramount Theater. This film is an undiscovered comedy gem, I'm so happy TCM decided to air it, hopefully it will be back soon.Priscilla and one of her sisters, Rosemary, traveled to Des Moines every weekend to study dancing with Rose Lorenz, a renowned dance teacher at the time. What he does to concert pianist Fritz Feld's piano is positively hilarious. Along the way they pick up a big boxer dog who adopts them and who likes to chew very high class mahogany style wood. However that doesn't detract one bit from the witty lines and incredible situations that Bracken and Lane bluff their way through. Fun On A Weekend was an independent film shot on a shoestring and released by United Artists. But with his name and the fact that Bracken and Lane decide to pretend they're married, they go off on a wild revolving con game getting all kinds of things charged to their non-existent credit because the rich and famous think they're two of them. ![]() Bracken and Lane are a pair of tourists on vacation in Florida, but who apparently planned poorly because they've got no money between them and can't even get a meal at Allen Jenkins greasy spoon restaurant on the beach front. But what they do give him is the incredibly posh and WASPy name of Peterson Price Porterhouse and the film puts forth the proposition that if you've got a high falutin' name like that doors just automatically open with the right gift of gab. Borrowing quite liberally from the Mark Twain short story classic The Million Pound Note, Fun On A Weekend doesn't even give protagonists Eddie Bracken and Priscilla Lane even a note for a $1.25. ![]()
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