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Birth name.....Jackie Lane ....16 May 1937, Vienna, Austria
One of the most stunningly beautiful, and overlooked, actresses to grace the screen, Jocelyn Lane was born Jackie Lane, reportedly in 1937. She was the younger sister of Mara Lane, who was considered one of the most beautiful models in the UK during the early 1950s. Whether because or in spite of her glamorous older sister, Jackie had established herself as a popular model and cover girl by the time she was 18, appearing on the covers or within the pages of numerous British, and later U.S., magazines. Jackie was not above fibbing about her age; in a 1957 photo pictorial by Russ Meyer in "Modern Man", the twenty-year old Jackie is referred to as "Mara's eighteen-year old sister". Soon Mara became yesterday's news and Jackie's extraordinary beauty found her being heralded as the "British Bardot". Her movie roles during this period are often confused with those of the "other" Jackie Lane, who played Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet opposite William Hartnell's Doctor Who during part of 1966. Our Jackie moved to Hollywood in the early 1960s, and changed her name to Jocelyn Lane, perhaps to avoid confusion with the Jackie Lane who remained in England, UK. There seems to have been some trouble in getting the new name to stick. In the October 4, 1964 Life magazine, where she was the feature photo in the article "The End of [Hollywood's] Great Girl Drought", she is already billed as Jocelyn. Yet early publicity for her 1965 Elvis vehicle "Tickle Me" still refers to her as Jackie, as does her January 1966 cover photo on Popular Photography magazine. Although Jocelyn feigned a convincing American actress, her aloof and haughty screen persona did not endear her to USA audiences, despite several showy leading roles in popular B-films. She retired from the screen in the early 1970s, but remains in the memory, literally becoming a fixture of her times. One image of her, used on the poster of one of her last films, "Hell's Belles", features a ground-level shot of the 32-year old Jocelyn (looking all of 22) in a black leather mini-skirt and boots, staring haughtily at the camera, has become an icon of 1960s pop culture.
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1. Bullet for Pretty Boy, A (1970) .... Betty
2. Land Raiders (1969) .... Luisa Rojas ...... aka Day of the Landgrabber
3. Hell's Belles (1968) .... Cathy ... aka Girl in the Leather Suit
4. Bel Ami 2000 oder Wie verführt man einen Playboy? (1966) .... Ginette ... aka How to Seduce a Playboy
5. Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966) .... Society Photographer
6. Incident at Phantom Hill (1966) .... Memphis
7. Sword of Ali Baba, The (1965) .... Princess Amara
8. Tickle Me (1965) .... Pamela Meritt
9. Congiura dei Borgia, La (1958) .. aka Conspiracy of the Borgias