Sally Blane


Actor

About

Also Known As
Sally Blaine, Elizabeth Jane Young
Birth Place
Salida, Colorado, USA
Born
July 11, 1910
Died
August 27, 1997

Biography

Sally Blane got her start in the world of acting at the ripe age of 17. Blane's earliest roles were in film, including "Casey at the Bat" (1927), "King Cowboy" (1928) and "Her Summer Hero" (1928). She also appeared in "Fools For Luck" (1928), "Tanned Legs" (1929) and "Half Marriage" (1929). She kept working in film throughout the thirties, starring in "Spirit of Notre Dame" (1931)...

Family & Companions

Norman Foster
Husband
Actor, director. Born 1900; died 1976; formerly married to Claudette Colbert.

Biography

Sally Blane got her start in the world of acting at the ripe age of 17. Blane's earliest roles were in film, including "Casey at the Bat" (1927), "King Cowboy" (1928) and "Her Summer Hero" (1928). She also appeared in "Fools For Luck" (1928), "Tanned Legs" (1929) and "Half Marriage" (1929). She kept working in film throughout the thirties, starring in "Spirit of Notre Dame" (1931), the drama "Ten Cents a Dance" (1931) with Barbara Stanwyck and "The Star Witness" (1931). She also appeared in "The Phantom Express" (1932) with J Farrell MacDonald. Film continued to be her passion as she played roles in "City Limits" (1934), the Buster Crabbe drama "She Had to Choose" (1934) and "The Silver Streak" (1934). She also appeared in "Angel's Holiday" (1937) and "One Mile From Heaven" (1937). Blane more recently appeared in "On Trial" (NBC, 1955-56). Blane's husband was Norman Foster and Blane had two children. Blane passed away in August 1997 at the age of 87.

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

A Bullet for Joey (1955)
Marie
Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
Stella Essex
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939)
Gertrude Hubbard
Way Down South (1939)
Claire Bouton
Fighting Mad (1939)
Ann Fenwick
Crashing Through Danger (1938)
Ann Foster
Numbered Woman (1938)
Linda Morgan
One Mile from Heaven (1937)
Barbara Harrison
Angel's Holiday (1937)
Pauline Kaye
The Great Hospital Mystery (1937)
Ann Smith
This Is the Life (1935)
Helen Davis
Against the Law (1934)
Martha Gray
City Limits (1934)
Helen Matthews
Half a Sinner (1934)
Phyllis
The Silver Streak (1934)
Ruth Dexter
City Park (1934)
Rose Wentworth
Stolen Sweets (1934)
Patricia Belmont
She Had to Choose (1934)
Clara Berry
No More Women (1934)
Helen [Young]
Advice to the Lovelorn (1933)
Louise [Boley]
Hello, Everybody! (1933)
Lily Smith
Night of Terror (1933)
Mary Rinehart
Trick for Trick (1933)
Constance Russell
Crime on the Hill (1933)
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932)
Alice
The Pride of the Legion (1932)
Peggy
Heritage of the Desert (1932)
Judy
The Local Bad Man (1932)
Marion Meade
The Phantom Express (1932)
Carolyn Nolan
Escapade (1932)
Kay Whitney
Cross-Examination (1932)
Grace Varney
Wild Horse Mesa (1932)
Sandy Melberne
Probation (1932)
Janet [Holman]
The Reckoning (1932)
Judy
Forbidden Company (1932)
Jeanette Blake
Good Sport (1931)
Marge Delarme
The Spirit of Notre Dame (1931)
Peggy
Once a Sinner (1931)
Hope Patterson
Law of the Sea (1931)
Betty Merton
Annabelle's Affairs (1931)
Dora
X Marks the Spot (1931)
Sue
Women Men Marry (1931)
Rose Bradley
A Dangerous Affair (1931)
Marjory Randolph
Shanghaied Love (1931)
Mary
Ten Cents a Dance (1931)
Molly
Star Witness (1931)
Sue Leeds
The Little Accident (1930)
Madge
The Show of Shows (1929)
Half Marriage (1929)
Sally
Eyes of the Underworld (1929)
Florence Hueston
Wolves of the City (1929)
Helen Marsh
Outlawed (1929)
Anne
The Vagabond Lover (1929)
Jean
The Very Idea (1929)
Nora
Tanned Legs (1929)
Janet Reynolds
Her Summer Hero (1928)
Grace
Dead Man's Curve (1928)
Ethel Hume
The Vanishing Pioneer (1928)
June Shelby
A Horseman of the Plains (1928)
Dawn O'Day
King Cowboy (1928)
Polly Randall
Fools for Luck (1928)
Louise Hunter
Wife Savers (1928)
Colette
Casey at the Bat (1927)
Other Florodora Girls
Shootin' Irons (1927)
Lucy Blake

Cast (Special)

On Trial (1955)

Cast (Short)

Sunday Night at the Trocadero (1937)
Herself

Life Events

1917

Screen debut in "Sirens of the Sea"

1927

Appeared in "Casey at the Bat" with Wallace Beery

1932

Performed in the Western "Wild Horse Mesa"

1939

Co-starred in "The Story of Alexander Graham Bell" with sister Loretta Young and Dom Ameche

1954

Came out of retirement to appear in "A Bullet for Joey"

Family

Polly Ann Young
Sister
Actor. Older; pre-deceased her.
Loretta Young
Sister
Actor. Younger; survived her.
Georgiana Young
Sister
Half-sister, younger; married to actor Ricardo Montalban; survived her.
John Lindley
Brother
Survived her; died on December 2, 1997.
Robert Foster
Son
Survived her.
Gretchen Foster Cotta
Daughter
Survived her.

Companions

Norman Foster
Husband
Actor, director. Born 1900; died 1976; formerly married to Claudette Colbert.

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