Vicky Lane (born Grace Patricia Rose Coghlan (April 23, 1926 â€"
August 1, 1983) was an Irish-American film actress who also worked as
a singer.Lane first went to Mexico with her family, then to the United
States. As a teenager, her first Hollywood role was in 1942. She
became known for her role as the Ape Woman Paula Dupree in the horror
film The Jungle Captive (1945, directed by Harold Young), a role she
took over from Acquanetta, who had played the character in two
previous instalments of Universal's Ape Woman film series. It was
followed by supporting roles in films such as The Cisco Kid Returns
(1945) and later appearances in TV series such as Dad's Army, in 'The
Day the Balloon went Up', (1969), as the girl on the tandem.After a
brief marriage to film actor Tom Neal (1948â€"49), Lane married jazz
musician and bandleader Pete Candoli in 1953, with whom she had a
daughter. Around 1953, she recorded several songs for the Sunset label
with Candoli, Jimmy Rowles, Joe Mondragon and Shelly Manne such as 'S
Wonderful and I Is not Got Nothin' But the Blues. Candoli also
arranged the songs for her only solo album, which she recorded with
the Candoli Orchestra in 1959 for Time Records, I Swing for You. Then
she performed songs in the jazz-oriented style like Love Is Not Born,
My Romance, The Song Is You and The Trolley Song. In 1958, the couple
divorced. Lane left Hollywood in 1963 and lived in Florida.
August 1, 1983) was an Irish-American film actress who also worked as
a singer.Lane first went to Mexico with her family, then to the United
States. As a teenager, her first Hollywood role was in 1942. She
became known for her role as the Ape Woman Paula Dupree in the horror
film The Jungle Captive (1945, directed by Harold Young), a role she
took over from Acquanetta, who had played the character in two
previous instalments of Universal's Ape Woman film series. It was
followed by supporting roles in films such as The Cisco Kid Returns
(1945) and later appearances in TV series such as Dad's Army, in 'The
Day the Balloon went Up', (1969), as the girl on the tandem.After a
brief marriage to film actor Tom Neal (1948â€"49), Lane married jazz
musician and bandleader Pete Candoli in 1953, with whom she had a
daughter. Around 1953, she recorded several songs for the Sunset label
with Candoli, Jimmy Rowles, Joe Mondragon and Shelly Manne such as 'S
Wonderful and I Is not Got Nothin' But the Blues. Candoli also
arranged the songs for her only solo album, which she recorded with
the Candoli Orchestra in 1959 for Time Records, I Swing for You. Then
she performed songs in the jazz-oriented style like Love Is Not Born,
My Romance, The Song Is You and The Trolley Song. In 1958, the couple
divorced. Lane left Hollywood in 1963 and lived in Florida.
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