Luana Walters

Luana Walters

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.
Known For: Acting
Birthday: 1912-07-22
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
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Movies List of Luana Walters

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Drums of Fu Manchu

1943 Movie
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Drums of Fu Manchu

1940 Movie
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Blondie Plays Cupid

1940 Movie
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The Corpse Vanishes

1942 Movie
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Shoot to Kill

1947 Movie
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Horrible Horror

1986 Movie
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Assassin of Youth

1938 Movie
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Youth on Parole

1937 Movie
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Aces and Eights

1936 Movie
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Girls in Prison

1956 Movie
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Shadow of Chinatown

1936 Movie
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The Kid's Last Ride

1941 Movie
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The Range Busters

1940 Movie
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Arizona Bound

1941 Movie
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Down Texas Way

1942 Movie
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The Speed Reporter

1936 Movie
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Inside the Law

1942 Movie
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Paris Honeymoon

1939 Movie
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No Greater Sin

1941 Movie
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Thanks for the Memory

1938 Movie
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Where the West Begins

1938 Movie
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Captain Midnight

1942 Movie
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Ride 'Em Cowboy

1936 Movie
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Law of the Wolf

1939 Movie
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Fangs of the Wild

1939 Movie
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Honeymoon in Bali

1939 Movie
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Eternally Yours

1939 Movie
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Mexicali Rose

1939 Movie
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Across the Sierras

1941 Movie
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Shadow of Chinatown

1936 Movie
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Millionaire Playboy

1940 Movie
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Thundering Hoofs

1942 Movie
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Under Strange Flags

1937 Movie
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The Third Sex

1934 Movie
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The Durango Kid

1940 Movie
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Misbehaving Husbands

1940 Movie
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Two Seconds

1932 Movie
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Miss Pinkerton

1932 Movie
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Hotel Imperial

1939 Movie
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Cafe Society

1939 Movie
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The Tulsa Kid

1940 Movie
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Bad Men of the Hills

1942 Movie
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Lawless Plainsmen

1942 Movie
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Say It in French

1938 Movie
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The Buccaneer

1938 Movie
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Arthur Takes Over

1948 Movie
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End of the Trail

1932 Movie
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Marie Antoinette

1938 Movie
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Fighting Texans

1933 Movie