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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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Filmography (Movies)
Girls in Prison
Character:Cellblock guard
Release Date:01/07/1956
Arthur Takes Over
Character:Newspaper Woman
Release Date:07/04/1948
Shoot to Kill
Character:Marian Langdon (as Susan Walters)
Release Date:15/03/1947
Drums of Fu Manchu
Character:Mary Randolph
Release Date:27/11/1943
Bad Men of the Hills
Character:Laurie Bishop
Release Date:13/08/1942
Thundering Hoofs
Character:Nancy Kellogg
Release Date:24/07/1942
Down Texas Way
Character:Mary Hopkins
Release Date:22/05/1942
The Corpse Vanishes
Character:Patricia Hunter
Release Date:08/05/1942
Inside the Law
Character:Dora Mason
Release Date:08/05/1942
Lawless Plainsmen
Character:Baltimore Bonnie Dixon
Release Date:17/03/1942
Captain Midnight
Character:Fury Shark
Release Date:15/02/1942
The Lone Star Vigilantes
Character:Marcia Banning
Release Date:01/01/1942
No Greater Sin
Character:Sandra James
Release Date:29/08/1941
Arizona Bound
Character:Ruth Masters
Release Date:19/07/1941
Across the Sierras
Character:Anne Woodworth
Release Date:13/02/1941
The Kid's Last Ride
Character:Sally Rowell
Release Date:10/02/1941
Misbehaving Husbands
Character:Jane Forbes
Release Date:20/12/1940
Blondie Plays Cupid
Character:Millie
Release Date:31/10/1940
The Range Busters
Character:Carol Thorp
Release Date:22/08/1940
The Tulsa Kid
Character:Mary Wallace
Release Date:16/08/1940
The Durango Kid
Character:Nancy Winslow
Release Date:15/08/1940
The Return of Wild Bill
Character:Kate Kilgore
Release Date:26/06/1940
Drums of Fu Manchu
Character:Mary Randolph
Release Date:15/03/1940
Millionaire Playboy
Character:Resort Girl
Release Date:14/03/1940
Eternally Yours
Character:Girl at Shower (uncredited)
Release Date:07/10/1939
Honeymoon in Bali
Character:Girl Having Her Fortune Told (uncredited)
Release Date:29/09/1939
Mutiny on the Blackhawk
Character:
Release Date:31/07/1939
Law of the Wolf
Character:Ruth Adams
Release Date:15/06/1939
Hotel Imperial
Character:Nurse (uncredited)
Release Date:11/05/1939
Mexicali Rose
Character:Anita Loredo
Release Date:26/03/1939
King of Chinatown
Character:Nightclub Girl (uncredited)
Release Date:17/03/1939
Cafe Society
Character:Cigarette Girl
Release Date:03/03/1939
Paris Honeymoon
Character:Angela
Release Date:27/01/1939
Fangs of the Wild
Character:Carol Dean
Release Date:01/01/1939
Say It in French
Character:Hat Check Girl
Release Date:25/11/1938
Thanks for the Memory
Character:Model (uncredited)
Release Date:11/11/1938
Marie Antoinette
Character:Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)
Release Date:26/08/1938
Assassin of Youth
Character:Joan Barry
Release Date:23/02/1938
The Buccaneer
Character:Suzette
Release Date:04/02/1938
Where the West Begins
Character:Lynne Reed
Release Date:02/02/1938
Youth on Parole
Character:Salesgirl (uncredited)
Release Date:04/10/1937
Under Strange Flags
Character:Dolores de Vargas
Release Date:11/04/1937
Shadow of Chinatown
Character:Sonya Rokoff
Release Date:17/10/1936
Shadow of Chinatown
Character:Sonya Rokoff
Release Date:10/10/1936
Ride 'Em Cowboy
Character:Lillian Howard
Release Date:20/09/1936
Aces and Eights
Character:Juanita Hernandez
Release Date:06/06/1936
The Speed Reporter
Character:May
Release Date:13/05/1936
The Third Sex
Character:Elinor Gordon
Release Date:08/11/1934
Fighting Texans
Character:Jo Ann Carver
Release Date:15/06/1933
End of the Trail
Character:Luana
Release Date:19/12/1932
Two Seconds
Character:Tart (uncredited)
Release Date:28/05/1932
Miss Pinkerton
Character:First Nurse (uncredited)
Release Date:27/05/1932
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