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In bit roles from 1932, American leading lady Luana Walters made the first of several movie-serial appearances as the exotic Sonya in Shadows of Chinatown (1936). Walters also starred in the infamous anti-marijuana tract Assassin of Youth (1938). A Columbia contractee in the 1940s, she was seen in everything from the Andy Clyde two-reeler Lovable Trouble (1942, as a lady baseball player) and the 15-chapter serial Superman (1948, as Lara, Superman's real mom). Luana Walters continued essaying character roles in such low-budgeters as The She-Creature until 1959.