Luana Walters (July 22, 1912-May 19, 1963) was a motion picture actress from Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West
Walters was an expert horsewoman which led to her discovery as an actress at a rodeo in Palm Springs, California. Rodeo (ˈroʊdioʊ or /roʊˈdeɪoʊ/ is a sport which arose out of the working practices of cattle herding in Spain, Mexico, and later the United States Palm Springs is a desert city in Riverside County, California, approximately 111 miles (177 km east of Los Angeles and 136 miles (225 km northeast of 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. This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was excited about her screen possibilities and arranged for a film test. Douglas Fairbanks ( May 23 1883 – December 12 1939) was an American Actor, Screenwriter, director 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. Joseph Michael Schenck ( December 25, 1878 &ndash October 22, 1961) was a pioneer executive who played a key role in the development of Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West 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 (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). For the Roman class see Equestrian (Roman Equestrianism refers to the skill of riding or driving Horses This broad description
On many occasions Walters made films in which her role was cut out. This began when she made Reaching For The Moon with Fairbanks. Her parts were also deleted from Spawn of the North (1938) and Souls At Sea (1937). The former was a Carol Lombard feature and the latter paired Walters with Robert Cummings. Carole Lombard ( October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne Indiana, was an Oscar-nominated Robert Cummings ( June 10, 1908 – December 2, 1990) also known as Bob Cummings, was an American Motion picture
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. A B movie is a motion picture made on a low or modest budget Originally the term was used for films intended for distribution as the less-publicized second half of a Double She plays a female reporter on the trail of a fiend's story in The Corpse Vanishes (1942), with Bela Lugosi. Béla Lugosi (October 20 1882 &ndash August 16 1956 was an iconic Hungarian stage and film actor best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula in the American She appears as a cellblock guard in Girls In Prison (1956). Her final role came in The She Creature (1956).
Luana Walters died of alcoholism in Los Angeles in 1963.
References
- The Helena Independent, Harrison In Hollywood, December 23, 1938, Page 11.
- Ironwood, Michigan Daily Globe, In Hollywood, December 8, 1936, Page 6. Ironwood is a city in Gogebic County in the US state of Michigan, about 18 miles south of Lake Superior.
- Mansfield, Ohio News Journal, Theaters, June 29, 1942, Page 13. Mansfield is a city in the US state of Ohio and the County seat of Richland County.
- Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune, At The Theaters, March 3, 1938, Page 13.
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