Luana Walters
Age: 50 | From: Los Angeles, California, United States
Person Details
Birthday: 1912-07-22 17:48:24
Death: 1963-05-19 17:48:24
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Female
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, United States
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 38
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Marie Antoinette
(1938) Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)
The Corpse Vanishes
(1942) Patricia Hunter, Reporter
Shoot to Kill
(1947) Marian Langdon (as Susan Walters)
Drums of Fu Manchu
(1940) Mary Randolph
The Buccaneer
(1938) Suzette
Girls in Prison
(1956) Cellblock guard
Arizona Bound
(1941) Ruth Masters
The Kid's Last Ride
(1941) Sally RowellActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 | Patricia Hunter in 'The Corpse Vanishes' | |
| 1956 | Cellblock guard | |
| 1948 | Newspaper Woman | |
| 1947 | Marian Langdon (as Susan Walters) | |
| 1943 | Mary Randolph | |
| 1942 | Laurie Bishop | |
| Nancy Kellogg | ||
| Mary Hopkins | ||
| Patricia Hunter, Reporter | ||
| Dora Mason | ||
| Baltimore Bonnie Dixon | ||
| Fury Shark | ||
| Marcia Banning | ||
| 1941 | Sandra James | |
| Ruth Masters | ||
| Anne Woodworth | ||
| Sally Rowell | ||
| 1940 | Jane Forbes | |
| Millie | ||
| Carol Thorp | ||
| Mary Wallace | ||
| Nancy Winslow | ||
| Kate Kilgore | ||
| Mary Randolph | ||
| Resort Girl | ||
| 1939 | Girl at Shower (uncredited) | |
| Girl Having Her Fortune Told (uncredited) | ||
| N/A | ||
| Ruth Adams | ||
| Nurse (uncredited) | ||
| Anita Loredo | ||
| Cigarette Girl | ||
| Angela | ||
| Carol Dean | ||
| 1938 | Hat Check Girl | |
| Model (uncredited) | ||
| Woman in Gaming House (uncredited) | ||
| Joan Barry | ||
| Suzette | ||
| Lynne Reed | ||
| 1937 | Salesgirl (uncredited) | |
| Dolores de Vargas | ||
| 1936 | Sonya Rokoff | |
| Sonya Rokoff | ||
| Lillian Howard | ||
| Juanita Hernandez | ||
| May | ||
| 1934 | Elinor Gordon | |
| 1933 | Jo Ann Carver | |
| 1932 | Luana | |
| Tart (uncredited) | ||
| First Nurse (uncredited) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
