Luana Walters

Туған күні:: 1912-07-22
Қайтыс болған күні:: 1963-05-19
Туған жері:: Los Angeles, California, USA

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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.

Фильмографиясы

Halloween Monster Bash

1991

TMDb 3.0 / 10

Patricia Wilder (archive footage)

Girls in Prison

1956

TMDb 4.5 / 10

Cellblock guard

Arthur Takes Over

1948

TMDb 3.7 / 10

Newspaper Woman

Shoot to Kill

1947

TMDb 4.9 / 10

Marian Langdon (as Susan Walters)

Drums of Fu Manchu

1943

TMDb 5.2 / 10

Mary Randolph

Bad Men of the Hills

1942

TMDb 8.0 / 10

Laurie Bishop

Thundering Hoofs

1942

TMDb 4.9 / 10

Nancy Kellogg

Down Texas Way

1942

TMDb 6.5 / 10

Mary Hopkins

The Corpse Vanishes

1942

TMDb 4.3 / 10

Patricia Hunter

Inside the Law

1942

TMDb 6.7 / 10

Dora Mason

Lawless Plainsmen

1942

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Baltimore Bonnie Dixon

Captain Midnight

1942

TMDb 6.3 / 10

Fury Shark

The Lone Star Vigilantes

1942

TMDb 8.0 / 10

Marcia Banning

No Greater Sin

1941

TMDb 4.8 / 10

Sandra James

Arizona Bound

1941

TMDb 4.2 / 10

Ruth Masters

Across the Sierras

1941

TMDb 4.5 / 10

Anne Woodworth

The Kid's Last Ride

1941

TMDb 4.8 / 10

Sally Rowell

Misbehaving Husbands

1940

TMDb 5.2 / 10

Jane Forbes

Blondie Plays Cupid

1940

TMDb 6.8 / 10

Millie

The Range Busters

1940

TMDb 5.8 / 10

Carol Thorp

The Tulsa Kid

1940

TMDb 6.5 / 10

Mary Wallace

The Durango Kid

1940

TMDb 7.5 / 10

Nancy Winslow

The Return of Wild Bill

1940

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Kate Kilgore

Drums of Fu Manchu

1940

TMDb 6.2 / 10

Mary Randolph

Millionaire Playboy

1940

TMDb 4.5 / 10

Resort Girl

Eternally Yours

1939

TMDb 5.9 / 10

Girl at Shower (uncredited)

Honeymoon in Bali

1939

TMDb 7.5 / 10

Girl Having Her Fortune Told (uncredited)

Mutiny on the Blackhawk

1939

TMDb 8.0 / 10

Law of the Wolf

1939

TMDb 5.2 / 10

Ruth Adams

Hotel Imperial

1939

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Nurse (uncredited)

Mexicali Rose

1939

TMDb 7.0 / 10

Anita Loredo

King of Chinatown

1939

TMDb 5.6 / 10

Nightclub Girl (uncredited)

Cafe Society

1939

TMDb 7.5 / 10

Cigarette Girl

Paris Honeymoon

1939

TMDb 5.5 / 10

Angela

Fangs of the Wild

1939

TMDb 6.2 / 10

Carol Dean

Say It in French

1938

TMDb 7.5 / 10

Hat Check Girl

Thanks for the Memory

1938

TMDb 5.8 / 10

Model (uncredited)

Мария-Антуанетта

1938

TMDb 6.6 / 10

Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)

Assassin of Youth

1938

TMDb 2.9 / 10

Joan Barry

Флибустьер

1938

TMDb 6.4 / 10

Suzette

Where the West Begins

1938

TMDb 6.0 / 10

Lynne Reed

Youth on Parole

1937

TMDb 3.9 / 10

Salesgirl (uncredited)

Under Strange Flags

1937

TMDb 9.0 / 10

Dolores de Vargas

Shadow of Chinatown

1936

TMDb 4.0 / 10

Sonya Rokoff

Shadow of Chinatown

1936

TMDb 5.2 / 10

Sonya Rokoff

Ride 'Em Cowboy

1936

TMDb 10.0 / 10

Lillian Howard

Aces and Eights

1936

TMDb 5.6 / 10

Juanita Hernandez

The Speed Reporter

1936

TMDb 5.7 / 10

May

The Third Sex

1934

TMDb 3.0 / 10

Elinor Gordon

Fighting Texans

1933

TMDb 9.0 / 10

Jo Ann Carver

End of the Trail

1932

TMDb 6.5 / 10

Luana

Две секунды

1932

TMDb 6.3 / 10

Tart (uncredited)

Мисс Пинкертон

1932

TMDb 5.9 / 10

First Nurse (uncredited)