A typically plump early silent screen heroine, blonde Anna Luther came to the screen in 1913 and starred for such early producers as Reliance, Selig, Keystone, and Fox, often appearing in highly sensationalistic fare. Later a minor league serial queen, Luther was George Larkin's leading lady in The Lurking Peril (1919) and played imperiled twin sisters opposite Charles Hutchison in The Great Gamble (1919). Both were produced by minor companies and Luther mainly played in poverty row quickies thereafter. She was reunited with Hutchison in The Fatal Plunge (1924) but this was merely a five-reel re-edited version of their 1919 serial. Luther became an extra after the changeover to sound and may be glimpsed in the background as late as the 1953 Esther Williams extravaganza Easy to Love.
by Hans J. Wollstein
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