Luana Walters

Known for ActingBorn 1912-07-22Died 1963-05-19Los Angeles, California, USA

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.Read more

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Ride 'Em Cowboy

Under Strange Flags

Fighting Texans

The Lone Star Vigilantes

Bad Men of the Hills

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

The Durango Kid

Honeymoon in Bali

Cafe Society

Say It in French

Lawless Plainsmen

The Return of Wild Bill

Mexicali Rose

Hotel Imperial

Blondie Plays Cupid

Inside the Law

Marie Antoinette

Down Texas Way

The Tulsa Kid

End of the Trail

The Buccaneer

Captain Midnight

Drums of Fu Manchu

Fangs of the Wild

Two Seconds

Where the West Begins

Eternally Yours

Miss Pinkerton

The Range Busters

Thanks for the Memory

The Speed Reporter

King of Chinatown

Aces and Eights

Paris Honeymoon

Misbehaving Husbands

Drums of Fu Manchu

Law of the Wolf

Shadow of Chinatown

Shoot to Kill

Thundering Hoofs

The Kid's Last Ride

No Greater Sin

Girls in Prison

Across the Sierras

Millionaire Playboy

The Corpse Vanishes

Arizona Bound

Shadow of Chinatown