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

Born: Los Angeles, California, USA, 1912-07-22

Died: 1963-05-19

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1932	Miss Pinkerton	First Nurse (uncredited)	57
2	1932	Two Seconds	Tart (uncredited)	63
3	1932	End of the Trail	Luana	60
4	1933	Fighting Texans	Jo Ann Carver	0
5	1934	The Third Sex	Elinor Gordon	10
6	1936	The Speed Reporter	May	50
7	1936	Aces and Eights	Juanita Hernandez	48
8	1936	Ride 'Em Cowboy	Lillian Howard	0
9	1936	Shadow of Chinatown	Sonya Rokoff	46
10	1936	Shadow of Chinatown	Sonya Rokoff	30
11	1937	Under Strange Flags	Dolores de Vargas	0
12	1937	Youth on Parole	Salesgirl (uncredited)	28
13	1938	Where the West Begins	Lynne Reed	50
14	1938	The Buccaneer	Suzette	64
15	1938	Assassin of Youth	Joan Barry	28
16	1938	Marie Antoinette	Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)	66
17	1938	Thanks for the Memory	Model (uncredited)	56
18	1938	Say It in French	Hat Check Girl	0
19	1939	Fangs of the Wild	Carol Dean	56
20	1939	Paris Honeymoon	Angela	30
21	1939	Cafe Society	Cigarette Girl	60
22	1939	King of Chinatown	Nightclub Girl (uncredited)	58
23	1939	Mexicali Rose	Anita Loredo	60
24	1939	Hotel Imperial	Nurse (uncredited)	60
25	1939	Law of the Wolf	Ruth Adams	45
26	1939	Mutiny on the Blackhawk		0
27	1939	Honeymoon in Bali	Girl Having Her Fortune Told (uncredited)	62
28	1939	Eternally Yours	Girl at Shower (uncredited)	57
29	1940	Millionaire Playboy	Resort Girl	27
30	1940	Drums of Fu Manchu	Mary Randolph	61
31	1940	The Return of Wild Bill	Kate Kilgore	0
32	1940	The Durango Kid	Nancy Winslow	60
33	1940	The Tulsa Kid	Mary Wallace	60
34	1940	The Range Busters	Carol Thorp	52
35	1940	Blondie Plays Cupid	Millie	67
36	1940	Misbehaving Husbands	Jane Forbes	50
37	1941	The Kid's Last Ride	Sally Rowell	37
38	1941	Across the Sierras	Anne Woodworth	22
39	1941	Arizona Bound	Ruth Masters	35
40	1941	No Greater Sin	Sandra James	35
41	1942	The Lone Star Vigilantes	Marcia Banning	0
42	1942	Captain Midnight	Fury Shark	50
43	1942	Lawless Plainsmen	Baltimore Bonnie Dixon	0
44	1942	The Corpse Vanishes	Patricia Hunter, Reporter	42
45	1942	Inside the Law	Dora Mason	50
46	1942	Down Texas Way	Mary Hopkins	0
47	1942	Thundering Hoofs	Nancy Kellogg	32
48	1942	Bad Men of the Hills	Laurie Bishop	0
49	1943	Drums of Fu Manchu	Mary Randolph	38
50	1947	Shoot to Kill	Marian Langdon (as Susan Walters)	47
51	1948	Arthur Takes Over	Newspaper Woman	20
52	1956	Girls in Prison	Cellblock guard	43

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Year

Title

Role

Vote Average

1932