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Birthday:
1912-07-22
Place of birth:
Los Angeles, California, USA
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Luana Walters

Overview

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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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1986 Horrible Horror Actor Patricia Hunter in 'The Corpse Vanishes' 59
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1956 Girls in Prison Actor Cellblock guard 58
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1948 Arthur Takes Over Actor Newspaper Woman 58
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1947 Shoot to Kill Actor Marian Langdon (as Susan Walters) 58
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1943 Drums of Fu Manchu Actor Mary Randolph 59
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1942 Bad Men of the Hills Actor Laurie Bishop 59
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1942 Thundering Hoofs Actor Nancy Kellogg 58
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1942 Down Texas Way Actor Mary Hopkins 58
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1942 Inside the Law Actor Dora Mason 59
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1942 The Corpse Vanishes Actor Patricia Hunter, Reporter 56
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1942 Lawless Plainsmen Actor Baltimore Bonnie Dixon N/A
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1942 Captain Midnight Actor Fury Shark 59
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1942 The Lone Star Vigilantes Actor Marcia Banning N/A
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1941 No Greater Sin Actor Sandra James 58
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1941 Arizona Bound Actor Ruth Masters 58
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1941 Across the Sierras Actor Anne Woodworth 58
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1941 The Kid's Last Ride Actor Sally Rowell 59
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1940 Misbehaving Husbands Actor Jane Forbes 59
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1940 Blondie Plays Cupid Actor Millie 59
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1940 The Range Busters Actor Carol Thorp 58
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1940 The Tulsa Kid Actor Mary Wallace 59
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1940 The Durango Kid Actor Nancy Winslow 59
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1940 The Return of Wild Bill Actor Kate Kilgore N/A
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1940 Drums of Fu Manchu Actor Mary Randolph 59
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1940 Millionaire Playboy Actor Resort Girl 58
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1939 Eternally Yours Actor Girl at Shower (uncredited) 58
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1939 Honeymoon in Bali Actor Girl Having Her Fortune Told (uncredited) 59
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1939 Mutiny on the Blackhawk Actor N/A
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1939 Law of the Wolf Actor Ruth Adams 59
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1939 Hotel Imperial Actor Nurse (uncredited) 59
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1939 Mexicali Rose Actor Anita Loredo 59
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1939 Cafe Society Actor Cigarette Girl 59
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1939 Paris Honeymoon Actor Angela 58
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1939 Fangs of the Wild Actor Carol Dean 59
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1938 Say It in French Actor Hat Check Girl N/A
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1938 Thanks for the Memory Actor Model (uncredited) 59
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1938 Marie Antoinette Actor Woman in Gaming House (uncredited) 59
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1938 Assassin of Youth Actor Joan Barry 58
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1938 The Buccaneer Actor Suzette 59
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1938 Where the West Begins Actor Lynne Reed 59
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1937 Youth on Parole Actor Salesgirl (uncredited) 58
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1937 Under Strange Flags Actor Dolores de Vargas N/A
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1936 Shadow of Chinatown Actor Sonya Rokoff 59
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1936 Shadow of Chinatown Actor Sonya Rokoff 58
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1936 Ride 'Em Cowboy Actor Lillian Howard N/A
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1936 Aces and Eights Actor Juanita Hernandez 59
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1936 The Speed Reporter Actor May 59
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1934 The Third Sex Actor Elinor Gordon N/A
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1933 Fighting Texans Actor Jo Ann Carver N/A
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1932 End of the Trail Actor Luana N/A
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1932 Two Seconds Actor Tart (uncredited) 59
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1932 Miss Pinkerton Actor First Nurse (uncredited) 58
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