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 womans 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 Supermans biological mother Lara in a liveaction 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 BMovie films most of them of the scifi and horror genres She plays a female reporter on the trail of a fiends 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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