Luana Anders

Actor

About

Also Known As

Lu Anders

Birth Place

California, USA

Born

May 12, 1938

Died

July 21, 1996

Cause of Death

Breast Cancer

Biography

Filmography

Point of Betrayal (1996)

American Strays (1996)

Martha

Nowhere To Run (1993)

Heart and Souls (1993)

Doppelganger (1993)

Hearts On Fire (1992)

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Dementia 13 (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Raised On Promises

Dementia 13 (1963) -- (Movie Clip) Entitled To Nothing

Biography

Versatile performer Luana Anders kindled two significant partnerships while studying acting in the 1950s. The first was with schlocky genre director Roger Corman, who cast Anders as the sister of iconic horror antagonist Vincent Price in his big-screen adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's macabre masterwork "The Pit and the Pendulum." Corman also introduced her to would-be auteur Francis Ford Coppola, with whom she worked on his cheapo 1963 thriller "Dementia 13," playing a scheming widow. In 1993, Anders adopted the pseudonym Margo Blue to pen the screenplay for "Fire on the Amazon," a Corman-produced B-movie notable for featuring a young Sandra Bullock. It was during that same '50s acting class where she met Corman that Anders befriended legendary actor Jack Nicholson. Besides being personal friends, the two collaborated frequently on projects, both appearing in the drifter bible "Easy Rider," with Anders as a skinny-dipping hippie, and in the salty naval comedy "The Last Detail," in which she played a similarly free-spirited party girl. Anders also appeared in small roles in two of Nicholson's four directorial efforts-the Western comedy "Goin' South" and "The Two Jakes," a follow-up to Roman Polanski's Nicholson-led noir, "Chinatown." Anders died in 1996, and Nicholson honored their friendship during his Best Actor acceptance speech for "As Good as It Gets" two years later.

Filmography

Life Events

1957

Co-starred in "Reform School Girl" with Sally Kellerman for American International Pictures

1957

Starred in "Life Begins at 17," "The Notorious Mr. Monks," "Night Tide" and "How Sweet It Is!"

1963

Featured in Francis Ford Coppola's "Dementia 13"

1969

Appeared in Dennis Hopper's "Easy Rider" starring Jack Nicholson and Robert Altman's "That Cold Day In the Park"

1972

Had a role in Robert Downey's "Greaser's Palace"

1973

Featured a role in Hal Ashby's "The Last Detail"

1975

Appeared in "Shampoo" also directed by Hal Ashby

1976

Starred in "The Missouri Breaks" with Authur Penn directing

1978

Ex-class mate Jack Nicholson cast her in his directing debut film "Goin' South"

1978

Starred in an Oscar-winning short film "Board and Care"

1982

Appeared in Robert Towne's "Personal Best"

1988

Appeared in "You Can't Hurry Love"

1989

Acted and co-wrote in stock-market comedy "Limit Up" under the pseudonym Lu Anders

1991

Wrote the Roger Corman production of "Fire On the Amazon" starring Sandra Bullock

Photo Collections

The Pit and the Pendulum - Lobby Card Set

Here is a set of Lobby Cards from AIP's The Pit and the Pendulum (1961), starring Vincent Price and directed by Roger Corman. Lobby Cards were 11" x 14" posters that came in sets of 8. As the name implies, they were most often displayed in movie theater lobbies, to advertise current or coming attractions.

The Killing Kind - Movie Poster

Here is the American one-sheet movie poster for The Killing Kind (1973), directed by Curtis Harrington. One-sheets measured 27x41 inches, and were the poster style most commonly used in theaters.