Luana Walters
Data de nascimento:
22/07/1912
Local de nascimento:
Los Angeles, California, USA
Data de falecimento:
19/05/1963
Biografia
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.
Filmes em que atuou
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Horrible Horror (1986)- 7.00 ★Patricia Hunter in 'The Corpse Vanishes'
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Girls in Prison (1956)- 4.30 ★Cellblock guard
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Arthur Takes Over (1948)- 2.00 ★Newspaper Woman
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Shoot to Kill (1947)- 4.60 ★Marian Langdon (as Susan Walters)
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Drums of Fu Manchu (1943)- 3.80 ★Mary Randolph
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Raptor de Noivas (1942)- 4.20 ★Patricia Hunter, Reporter
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Down Texas Way (1942)- 0.00 ★Mary Hopkins
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Inside the Law (1942)- 5.00 ★Dora Mason
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Captain Midnight (1942)- 5.00 ★Fury Shark
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Thundering Hoofs (1942)- 3.20 ★Nancy Kellogg
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The Lone Star Vigilantes (1942)- 0.00 ★Marcia Banning
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Bad Men of the Hills (1942)- 0.00 ★Laurie Bishop
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Lawless Plainsmen (1942)- 0.00 ★Baltimore Bonnie Dixon
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The Kid's Last Ride (1941)- 5.00 ★Sally Rowell
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O Vaqueiro do Arizona (1941)- 4.30 ★Ruth Masters
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No Greater Sin (1941)- 3.50 ★Sandra James
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Across the Sierras (1941)- 2.20 ★Anne Woodworth
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Drums of Fu Manchu (1940)- 6.10 ★Mary Randolph
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Blondie Plays Cupid (1940)- 6.70 ★Millie
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The Range Busters (1940)- 5.20 ★Carol Thorp
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The Return of Wild Bill (1940)- 0.00 ★Kate Kilgore
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Millionaire Playboy (1940)- 2.70 ★Resort Girl
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O Cavaleiro de Durango (1940)- 6.00 ★Nancy Winslow
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Misbehaving Husbands (1940)- 5.20 ★Jane Forbes
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The Tulsa Kid (1940)- 6.00 ★Mary Wallace
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Paris Honeymoon (1939)- 3.00 ★Angela
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Law of the Wolf (1939)- 5.70 ★Ruth Adams
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Mutiny on the Blackhawk (1939)- 0.00 ★
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Fangs of the Wild (1939)- 5.60 ★Carol Dean
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Honeymoon in Bali (1939)- 6.20 ★Girl Having Her Fortune Told (uncredited)
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Eternamente Tua (1939)- 5.60 ★Girl at Shower (uncredited)
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Mexicali Rose (1939)- 6.00 ★Anita Loredo
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Hotel Imperial (1939)- 6.00 ★Nurse (uncredited)
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Cafe Society (1939)- 6.00 ★Cigarette Girl
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Assassin of Youth (1938)- 2.90 ★Joan Barry
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Thanks for the Memory (1938)- 5.70 ★Model (uncredited)
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Where the West Begins (1938)- 5.00 ★Lynne Reed
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Say It in French (1938)- 0.00 ★Hat Check Girl
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Lafitte, O Corsário (1938)- 6.50 ★Suzette
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Maria Antonieta (1938)- 6.20 ★Woman in Gaming House (uncredited)
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Youth on Parole (1937)- 2.70 ★Salesgirl (uncredited)
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Under Strange Flags (1937)- 0.00 ★Dolores de Vargas
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Aces and Eights (1936)- 6.00 ★Juanita Hernandez
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Sombras de Chinatown (1936)- 4.60 ★Sonya Rokoff
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The Speed Reporter (1936)- 5.00 ★May
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Ride 'Em Cowboy (1936)- 0.00 ★Lillian Howard
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Shadow of Chinatown (1936)- 3.00 ★Sonya Rokoff
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The Third Sex (1934)- 1.00 ★Elinor Gordon
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Fighting Texans (1933)- 0.00 ★Jo Ann Carver
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Two Seconds (1932)- 6.13 ★Tart (uncredited)
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Miss Pinkerton (1932)- 5.70 ★First Nurse (uncredited)
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End of the Trail (1932)- 0.00 ★Luana