Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she was the daughter of Edith and Clarence Vlasek, After the family moved to Los Angeles, Lang trained at a school of dance and performed in revues in theaters in Los Angeles. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School.\n', ' Lang made her film debut in 1931, with much of her early work coming in minor roles in musical and dramatic films. She caught the eye of Darryl F. Zanuck[citation needed] at 20th Century Fox, gradually securing second lead roles in mostly B movies. Her debut feature film role came in Young Sinners.\n', 'Noted for her fragile and demure appearance, she was usually cast as the little sister or the heroine\'s best friend in light comedies and adventure films. She soon graduated to leading roles, most notably in Bonnie Scotland (with Laurel and Hardy, 1935), in The Road to Glory (with Fredric March, Warner Baxter and Lionel Barrymore—written in part by William Faulkner—1936), and as Joyce Williams in Wee Willie Winkie (directed by John Ford, with Shirley Temple, Cesar Romero, and Victor McLaglen, 1937).\n', '

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