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Luana Walters

Actor
Born July 22, 1912Died May 19, 1963 (50 years)
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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.

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • A Star Is Born
  • The Corpse Vanishes
  • Eternally Yours
  • Shoot to Kill
  • Assassin of Youth
  • Bells of San Angelo
  • Down Texas Way
  • Fangs of the Wild

Known For

  • The Corpse Vanishes
  • Assassin of Youth
  • Shoot to Kill
  • Aces and Eights
  • The Durango Kid
  • Shadow of Chinatown
  • Arizona Bound
  • Blondie Plays Cupid
  • Shadow of Chinatown
  • Across the Sierras
  • Misbehaving Husbands
  • Thundering Hoofs
  • Mexicali Rose
  • Law of the Wolf
  • No Greater Sin
  • The Range Busters
  • Down Texas Way
  • Captain Midnight
  • Fangs of the Wild
  • The Kid's Last Ride
  • Where the West Begins
  • Inside the Law

Filmography

1986
Horrible Horror · as Patricia Hunter, In Clips From 'the Corpse Vanishes'
1956
The She-Creature · as Party Guest
1956
Girls in Prison · as Cellblock Guard
1949
Mighty Joe Young · as Nightclub Patron
1948
Superman · as Lara
1947
1947
Shoot to Kill · as Marian Langdon (as Susan Walters)
1943
Drums of Fu Manchu · as Mary Randolph
1942
Thundering Hoofs · as Nancy Kellogg
1942
Down Texas Way · as Mary Hopkins
1942
The Corpse Vanishes · as Patricia Hunter, Reporter
1942
Inside the Law · as Dora Mason
1942
Captain Midnight · as Fury Shark
1941
No Greater Sin · as Sandra James
1941
Arizona Bound · as Ruth Masters
1941
Across the Sierras · as Anne Woodworth
1941
The Kid's Last Ride · as Sally Rowell
1940
Misbehaving Husbands · as Jane Forbes
1940
Blondie Plays Cupid · as Millie
1940
The Range Busters · as Carol Thorp
1940
The Tulsa Kid · as Mary Wallace
1940
The Durango Kid · as Nancy Winslow
1940
The Return of Wild Bill · as Kate Kilgore
1940
Drums of Fu Manchu · as Mary Randolph
1940
Millionaire Playboy · as Resort Girl
1939
Eternally Yours · as Girl At Shower (uncredited)
1939
Honeymoon in Bali · as Girl Having Her Fortune Told (uncredited)
1939
1939
The Magnificent Fraud · as Brunette
1939
Law of the Wolf · as Ruth Adams
1939
Hotel Imperial · as Nurse (uncredited)
1939
Mexicali Rose · as Anita Loredo
1939
King of Chinatown · as Nightclub Girl (uncredited)
1939
Cafe Society · as Cigarette Girl
1939
St. Louis Blues · as Dancer
1939
Disbarred · as Office Worker
1939
1938
Paris Honeymoon · as Angela
1938
Say It in French · as Hat Check Girl
1938
Thanks for the Memory · as Model (uncredited)
1938
Marie Antoinette · as Woman In Gaming House (uncredited)
1938
Algiers · as Native Waitress
1938
1938
The Buccaneer · as Suzette
1938
Where the West Begins · as Lynne Reed
1937
Youth on Parole · as Salesgirl (uncredited)
1937
Souls at Sea · as Eloise
1937
1936
Shadow of Chinatown · as Sonya Rokoff
1936
Shadow of Chinatown · as Sonya Rokoff
1936
Suzy · as Check Room Girl
1936
Aces and Eights · as Juanita Hernandez
1936
1935
1934
The Merry Widow · as Maid To Sonia
1933
Midshipman Jack · as Gloria
1933
Secrets of Hollywood · as A Young Actress
1933
Fighting Texans · as Jo Ann Carver
1932
End of the Trail · as Luana
1932
Miss Pinkerton · as First Nurse (uncredited)
1932
Two Seconds · as Tart (uncredited)
1930
Reaching for the Moon · as Undetermined Subordinate Role

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