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Luana Walters‌

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1912-07-22

Popularity

star2.5

Luana Walters

Los Angeles, California, USA

Luana Walters

Los Angeles, California, USA

Gender

Female

Birthday

calendar1912-07-22

Popularity

star2.5

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.

Movie Credits

Drums of Fu Manchu

Drums of Fu Manchu‌
star3.8
calendar 1943

Drums of Fu Manchu

Drums of Fu Manchu‌
star6.1
calendar 1940

Blondie Plays Cupid

Blondie Plays Cupid‌
star6.7
calendar 1940

The Corpse Vanishes

The Corpse Vanishes‌
star4.2
calendar 1942

Shoot to Kill

Shoot to Kill‌
star4.6
calendar 1947

Horrible Horror

Horrible Horror‌
star7.0
calendar 1986

Assassin of Youth

Assassin of Youth‌
star2.9
calendar 1938

Youth on Parole

Youth on Parole‌
star2.7
calendar 1937

Aces and Eights

Aces and Eights‌
star6.0
calendar 1936

Girls in Prison

Girls in Prison‌
star4.3
calendar 1956

Shadow of Chinatown

Shadow of Chinatown‌
star4.6
calendar 1936

The Kid's Last Ride

The Kid's Last Ride‌
star5.0
calendar 1941

The Range Busters

The Range Busters‌
star5.2
calendar 1940

Arizona Bound

Arizona Bound‌
star4.3
calendar 1941

Down Texas Way

Down Texas Way‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

The Speed Reporter

The Speed Reporter‌
star5.0
calendar 1936

Inside the Law

Inside the Law‌
star5.0
calendar 1942

Paris Honeymoon

Paris Honeymoon‌
star3.0
calendar 1939

No Greater Sin

No Greater Sin‌
star3.5
calendar 1941

Thanks for the Memory

Thanks for the Memory‌
star5.7
calendar 1938

Where the West Begins

Where the West Begins‌
star5.0
calendar 1938

Captain Midnight

Captain Midnight‌
star5.0
calendar 1942

The Return of Wild Bill

The Return of Wild Bill‌
star0.0
calendar 1940

Ride 'Em Cowboy

Ride 'Em Cowboy‌
star0.0
calendar 1936

Law of the Wolf

Law of the Wolf‌
star5.7
calendar 1939

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

Mutiny on the Blackhawk‌
star0.0
calendar 1939

Fangs of the Wild

Fangs of the Wild‌
star5.6
calendar 1939

Honeymoon in Bali

Honeymoon in Bali‌
star6.2
calendar 1939

Eternally Yours

Eternally Yours‌
star5.6
calendar 1939

Mexicali Rose

Mexicali Rose‌
star6.0
calendar 1939

Across the Sierras

Across the Sierras‌
star2.2
calendar 1941

Shadow of Chinatown

Shadow of Chinatown‌
star3.0
calendar 1936

Millionaire Playboy

Millionaire Playboy‌
star2.7
calendar 1940

Thundering Hoofs

Thundering Hoofs‌
star3.2
calendar 1942

Under Strange Flags

Under Strange Flags‌
star0.0
calendar 1937

The Third Sex

The Third Sex‌
star1.0
calendar 1934

The Durango Kid

The Durango Kid‌
star6.0
calendar 1940

Misbehaving Husbands

Misbehaving Husbands‌
star5.2
calendar 1940

Two Seconds

Two Seconds‌
star6.1
calendar 1932

Miss Pinkerton

Miss Pinkerton‌
star5.7
calendar 1932

Hotel Imperial

Hotel Imperial‌
star6.0
calendar 1939

Cafe Society

Cafe Society‌
star6.0
calendar 1939

The Tulsa Kid

The Tulsa Kid‌
star6.0
calendar 1940

The Lone Star Vigilantes

The Lone Star Vigilantes‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

Bad Men of the Hills

Bad Men of the Hills‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

Lawless Plainsmen

Lawless Plainsmen‌
star0.0
calendar 1942

Say It in French

Say It in French‌
star0.0
calendar 1938

The Buccaneer

The Buccaneer‌
star6.5
calendar 1938

Arthur Takes Over

Arthur Takes Over‌
star2.0
calendar 1948

End of the Trail

End of the Trail‌
star0.0
calendar 1932

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette‌
star6.2
calendar 1938

Fighting Texans

Fighting Texans‌
star0.0
calendar 1933

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