Nora Schilling (1905-48) was approached by a casting agent asking if she wanted to be in pictures and, unlike many others, actually got a career out of it.
Lane appeared in at least 80 films in a relatively short career. She made her debut in 1927 and was soon playing lead roles. One of rare uncredited appearances was in Madam Satan.
She appeared in many westerns, including four Hopalong Cassidy pictures. In Western Frontier (1935), Lane even got to play the villainous leader of an outlaw gang.
Sadly, Nora Lane’s husband died unexpectedly in 1948 and she committed suicide a few weeks later.
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