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JARVIS---Chicago (Delighted)
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Date Posted: Wed, November 21 2018, 8:33:45
http://www.lordheath.com/Joy_Lane.html
ADD: Born: Santa Monica, CA.
"Bumped into a short, first person, bio at the "Laurel and Hardy Magazine".
http://www.laurelandhardy.org/joylane.htm
Her bio says:
Sang "Little Grass Shack" in "Mike Fright".
ANM HoF page says "little girl".
One of the children of MOTHER PEEP in "Babes in Toyland".
ANM HoF page says "school girl".
Sang "The Object of My Affection" with ALFALFA in "Our Gang Follies of 1936" and ANM says the same.
As an adult she had a long successful career on radio, TV, and night clubs as a big band singer and performer.
Snippets from "Laurel and Hardy Magazine".
I was born September 19, 1927, at the Loamshire Hospital in Santa Monica, California. My mother, Irene McCauley, had just reached the "ripe old age" of 17 on July 10th of that year. She had met my father the year before while waiting for a bus, with her friend Grace, at the corner of Geary and Market Street.
On our way home, Daddy told me the man I sang for was Gus Meins, the Director of the Our Gang Comedies, and he wanted me back at the Studio on Monday for a voice test. As a result of this test, I was put under contract to Hal Roach Studios from 1934 to 1936 and cast to sing "I Wanna Go Back To My Little Grass Shack" in the next OUR GANG movie called "Mike Fright."
A few month's later, the studio wanted me to play in their new full-length feature film called "Babes In Toyland" with Hal Roach Studios two biggest stars, LAUREL & HARDY. I was cast as one of the children of Mother Peep, "the old lady who lived in a shoe." This wonderful movie has become a Classic over the years!
After "Babes in Toyland" I worked at RKO in the movies, "Kid Carnival" and "Freckles" and then returned to Hal Roach to appear in "Our Gang Follies of 1936". In this Our Gang movie, I sang "The Object of My Affection" with Alfalfa.
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JOY LANE born Santa Monica
