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person_profile-Luana Walters

Luana Walters Died at age: 50

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Luana Walters

Date of Birth:

Jul 22, 1912

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

May 19, 1963

Biography of

Luana Walters

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

    Luana Walters (July 22, 1912 - May 19, 1963) was a motion picture actress from Los Angeles, California.

    Walters was an expert horsewoman which led to her discovery as an actress at a rodeo in Palm Springs, California. She won a woman's bucking contest which was being watched by a movie scout, who noticed her.

    Her film career began when she visited a friend on a United Artists lot. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was excited about her screen possibilities and arranged for a film test. However, only three days later Fairbanks went to Europe, and the test was never completed. Not long afterwards Joe Schenck saw Walters on the dance floor at the Cocoanut Grove in Los Angeles, California. After viewing the abbreviated test made by Fairbanks, Schenck offered her a contract with United Artists. The studio did not make a movie in the next six months so Walters' option was not taken up.

    Walters' screen credits start with an uncredited role in Reaching For The Moon (film) (1930). Her skill as an equestrian helped her in parts in westerns like Ride 'Em Cowboy (1936), Where The West Begins (1938), Mexicali Rose (1939), and Law Of The Wolf (1939).

    On many occasions Walters made films in which her role was cut out. This began when she made Reaching for the Moon (film) with Fairbanks. Her parts were also deleted from Spawn of the North (1938) and Souls At Sea (1937). The former was a Carole Lombard feature and the latter paired Walters with Robert Cummings.

    Walters was the first actress to portray Superman's biological mother Lara in a live-action format. She appeared in "Superman Comes to Earth", the first chapter of the 1948 Superman movie serial. Portions of this depiction appear in flashback in "At the Mercy of Atom Man!", the seventh chapter of the 1950 serial Atom Man vs. Superman.

    In the latter portion of her career Walters was in a number of B-Movie films, most of them of the sci-fi and horror genres. She plays a female reporter on the trail of a fiend's story in The Corpse Vanishes (1942), with Bela Lugosi. She appears as a cellblock guard in Girls In Prison (1956). Her final role came in The She Creature (1956).

    Luana Walters died of liver failure due to alcoholism in Los Angeles in 1963.

    Description above from the Wikipedia article Luana Walters, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Luana Walters

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Filmography of

Luana Walters

Found 53 Movies in total

Horrible Horror

Patricia Hunter in 'The Corpse Vanishes' ( Actor )

... 1986

Girls in Prison

Cellblock guard ( Actor )

... 1956

Arthur Takes Over

Newspaper Woman ( Actor )

... 1948

Shoot to Kill

Marian Langdon (as Susan Walters) ( Actor )

... 1947

Drums of Fu Manchu

Mary Randolph ( Actor )

... 1943

Bad Men of the Hills

Laurie Bishop ( Actor )

... 1942

Thundering Hoofs

Nancy Kellogg ( Actor )

... 1942

Down Texas Way

Mary Hopkins ( Actor )

... 1942

Inside the Law

Dora Mason ( Actor )

... 1942

The Corpse Vanishes

Patricia Hunter, Reporter ( Actor )

... 1942

Lawless Plainsmen

Baltimore Bonnie Dixon ( Actor )

... 1942

Captain Midnight

Fury Shark ( Actor )

... 1942

The Lone Star Vigilantes

Marcia Banning ( Actor )

... 1942

No Greater Sin

Sandra James ( Actor )

... 1941

Arizona Bound

Ruth Masters ( Actor )

... 1941

Across the Sierras

Anne Woodworth ( Actor )

... 1941

The Kid's Last Ride

Sally Rowell ( Actor )

... 1941

Misbehaving Husbands

Jane Forbes ( Actor )

... 1940

Blondie Plays Cupid

Millie ( Actor )

... 1940

The Range Busters

Carol Thorp ( Actor )

... 1940

The Tulsa Kid

Mary Wallace ( Actor )

... 1940

The Durango Kid

Nancy Winslow ( Actor )

... 1940

The Return of Wild Bill

Kate Kilgore ( Actor )

... 1940

Drums of Fu Manchu

Mary Randolph ( Actor )

... 1940

Millionaire Playboy

Resort Girl ( Actor )

... 1940

Eternally Yours

Girl at Shower (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Honeymoon in Bali

Girl Having Her Fortune Told (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Law of the Wolf

Ruth Adams ( Actor )

... 1939

Hotel Imperial

Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Mexicali Rose

Anita Loredo ( Actor )

... 1939

King of Chinatown

Nightclub Girl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1939

Cafe Society

Cigarette Girl ( Actor )

... 1939

Paris Honeymoon

Angela ( Actor )

... 1939

Fangs of the Wild

Carol Dean ( Actor )

... 1939

Say It in French

Hat Check Girl ( Actor )

... 1938

Thanks for the Memory

Model (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

Marie Antoinette

Woman in Gaming House (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1938

Assassin of Youth

Joan Barry ( Actor )

... 1938

The Buccaneer

Suzette ( Actor )

... 1938

Where the West Begins

Lynne Reed ( Actor )

... 1938

Youth on Parole

Salesgirl (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1937

Under Strange Flags

Dolores de Vargas ( Actor )

... 1937

Shadow of Chinatown

Sonya Rokoff ( Actor )

... 1936

Shadow of Chinatown

Sonya Rokoff ( Actor )

... 1936

Ride 'Em Cowboy

Lillian Howard ( Actor )

... 1936

Aces and Eights

Juanita Hernandez ( Actor )

... 1936

The Speed Reporter

May ( Actor )

... 1936

The Third Sex

Elinor Gordon ( Actor )

... 1934

Fighting Texans

Jo Ann Carver ( Actor )

... 1933

End of the Trail

Luana ( Actor )

... 1932

Two Seconds

Tart (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932

Miss Pinkerton

First Nurse (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1932