John Osborne "A Better Class of Person", Osborne describes feeling an immediate and intense attraction towards his first wife. The pair were both members of an acting troupe in Bridgwater. Though Alison Porter in "Look Back in Anger" was based on Pamela, Osborne describes Lane's parents as "much coarser" and how at one point they hired a private detective to follow him after a fellow actor was seen 'fumbling' with his knee in a teashop. Though he admits that it was true at least that the actor in question did have a homosexual crush on him. Lane and Osborne married in secret
Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (play) went on to win the Best Film Award at the Chicago International Film Festival. The Broadway version of "Jimmy Dean" was not well-received with critics. "The New York Times"<nowiki>'</nowiki> Frank Rich commented that "Neither the gimmicky plot nor its cliched participants are credible." John Simon of "New York Magazine" wrote, "Although the play becomes a little less boring in the second act, it is too little too late, and at the cost of some whopping improbabilities. Hit-and-miss directorial bravura and an expensive production are not enough to justify so much ado." Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean,