Vicky Lane was born Grace Patricia Rose Coghlan to an aristocratic family in Dublin, Ireland in 1926. At a relatively young age, she had already traveled around the world twice before finally settling with her family in Mexico, and later, Beverly Hills.
While perhaps best known for her role as the ape woman, Paula Dupree, in the 1945 Universal Studios horror film, "The Jungle Captive', Lane also had roles in other films of the early to mid-1940s, such as Presenting Lily Mars and The Cisco Kid Returns. She quit acting after 1945 to pursue other interests.
During her time as a budding starlet, she met her first husband, the actor and all-around Hollywood bad boy, Tom Neal. They married in Las Vegas in 1944, and were divorced in 1949.
By the late-1950s, Vicky had recorded two singles and a full length jazz album, the swinging and sultry, "I Swing For You". Her creative muse and co-conspirator in these recordings was her second husband, esteemed jazz trumpeter, Pete Candoli, whom she married in 1953. She had one child, a daughter, Tara, with Mr. Candoli in 1954. Pete and Vicky divorced in 1958.
Ms. Lane passed away in Florida in 1983 at the age of 57.
While perhaps best known for her role as the ape woman, Paula Dupree, in the 1945 Universal Studios horror film, "The Jungle Captive', Lane also had roles in other films of the early to mid-1940s, such as Presenting Lily Mars and The Cisco Kid Returns. She quit acting after 1945 to pursue other interests.
During her time as a budding starlet, she met her first husband, the actor and all-around Hollywood bad boy, Tom Neal. They married in Las Vegas in 1944, and were divorced in 1949.
By the late-1950s, Vicky had recorded two singles and a full length jazz album, the swinging and sultry, "I Swing For You". Her creative muse and co-conspirator in these recordings was her second husband, esteemed jazz trumpeter, Pete Candoli, whom she married in 1953. She had one child, a daughter, Tara, with Mr. Candoli in 1954. Pete and Vicky divorced in 1958.
Ms. Lane passed away in Florida in 1983 at the age of 57.
Vicky Lane was born Grace Patricia Rose Coghlan to an aristocratic family in Dublin, Ireland in 1926. At a relatively young age, she had already traveled around the world twice before finally settling with her family in Mexico, and later, Beverly Hills.
While perhaps best known for her role as the ape woman, Paula Dupree, in the 1945 Universal Studios horror film, "The Jungle Captive', Lane also had roles in other films of the early to mid-1940s, such as Presenting Lily Mars and The Cisco Kid Returns. She quit acting after 1945 to pursue other interests.
During her time as a budding starlet, she met her first husband, the actor and all-around Hollywood bad boy, Tom Neal. They married in Las Vegas in 1944, and were divorced in 1949.
By the late-1950s, Vicky had recorded two singles and a full length jazz album, the swinging and sultry, "I Swing For You". Her creative muse and co-conspirator in these recordings was her second husband, esteemed jazz trumpeter, Pete Candoli, whom she married in 1953. She had one child, a daughter, Tara, with Mr. Candoli in 1954. Pete and Vicky divorced in 1958.
Ms. Lane passed away in Florida in 1983 at the age of 57.
While perhaps best known for her role as the ape woman, Paula Dupree, in the 1945 Universal Studios horror film, "The Jungle Captive', Lane also had roles in other films of the early to mid-1940s, such as Presenting Lily Mars and The Cisco Kid Returns. She quit acting after 1945 to pursue other interests.
During her time as a budding starlet, she met her first husband, the actor and all-around Hollywood bad boy, Tom Neal. They married in Las Vegas in 1944, and were divorced in 1949.
By the late-1950s, Vicky had recorded two singles and a full length jazz album, the swinging and sultry, "I Swing For You". Her creative muse and co-conspirator in these recordings was her second husband, esteemed jazz trumpeter, Pete Candoli, whom she married in 1953. She had one child, a daughter, Tara, with Mr. Candoli in 1954. Pete and Vicky divorced in 1958.
Ms. Lane passed away in Florida in 1983 at the age of 57.
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