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Luana Walters
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Luana Walters
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1912-07-22,Los Angeles, California, USA
Gender
Female
Biography
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.

Filmography

Drums of Fu Manchu

5.167

Drums of Fu Manchu
1943-11-27

Drums of Fu Manchu

6.25

Drums of Fu Manchu
1940-03-15

Blondie Plays Cupid

6.857

Blondie Plays Cupid
1940-10-31

The Corpse Vanishes

4.28

The Corpse Vanishes
1942-05-08

4.932

Shoot to Kill
1947-03-15

Assassin of Youth

2.889

Assassin of Youth
1938-02-23

Youth on Parole

3.857

Youth on Parole
1937-10-04

Aces and Eights

5.6

Aces and Eights
1936-06-06

Girls in Prison

4.5

Girls in Prison
1956-07-01

Shadow of Chinatown

5.167

Shadow of Chinatown
1936-10-10

The Kid's Last Ride

4.75

The Kid's Last Ride
1941-02-10

The Range Busters

5.8

The Range Busters
1940-08-22

4.2

Arizona Bound
1941-07-19

6.5

Down Texas Way
1942-05-22

The Speed Reporter

5.667

The Speed Reporter
1936-05-13

6.667

Inside the Law
1942-05-08

Paris Honeymoon

5.5

Paris Honeymoon
1939-01-27

4.75

No Greater Sin
1941-08-29

Thanks for the Memory

5.75

Thanks for the Memory
1938-11-11

Where the West Begins

6

Where the West Begins
1938-02-02

Captain Midnight

6.333

Captain Midnight
1942-02-15

The Return of Wild Bill

7

The Return of Wild Bill
1940-06-26

Ride 'Em Cowboy

10

Ride 'Em Cowboy
1936-09-20

Law of the Wolf

5.2

Law of the Wolf
1939-06-15

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

8

Mutiny on the Blackhawk
1939-07-31

Fangs of the Wild

6.2

Fangs of the Wild
1939-01-01

Honeymoon in Bali

7.5

Honeymoon in Bali
1939-09-29

Eternally Yours

5.857

Eternally Yours
1939-10-07

7

Mexicali Rose
1939-03-26

Across the Sierras

4.5

Across the Sierras
1941-02-13

Shadow of Chinatown

4

Shadow of Chinatown
1936-10-17

Millionaire Playboy

4.5

Millionaire Playboy
1940-03-14

Thundering Hoofs

4.875

Thundering Hoofs
1942-07-24

Under Strange Flags

9

Under Strange Flags
1937-04-11

3

The Third Sex
1934-11-08

The Durango Kid

7.5

The Durango Kid
1940-08-15

Misbehaving Husbands

5.222

Misbehaving Husbands
1940-12-20

6.188

Two Seconds
1932-05-28

5.9

Miss Pinkerton
1932-05-27

7

Hotel Imperial
1939-05-11

7.5

Cafe Society
1939-03-03

6.5

The Tulsa Kid
1940-08-16

The Lone Star Vigilantes

8

The Lone Star Vigilantes
1942-01-01

Bad Men of the Hills

8

Bad Men of the Hills
1942-08-13

Lawless Plainsmen

7

Lawless Plainsmen
1942-03-17

Say It in French

7.5

Say It in French
1938-11-25

6.4

The Buccaneer
1938-02-04

Arthur Takes Over

3.667

Arthur Takes Over
1948-04-07

End of the Trail

6.5

End of the Trail
1932-12-19

Marie Antoinette

6.554

Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26

Fighting Texans

9

Fighting Texans
1933-06-15

King of Chinatown

5.611

King of Chinatown
1939-03-17

Halloween Monster Bash

0

Halloween Monster Bash
1991-10-27