Lucille Lund

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Lucille Lund Biography

Born in Buckley, Washington, Lund first attended Northwestern University, studying drama. In 1933 she won a nationwide contest, "The Most Beautiful College Coed", which included a small Universal Pictures contract as a prize. Her first film was Horseplay in 1933, in which she had a minor role, with her first noticeable film being opposite Robert Young in the 1933 movie Saturday`s Millions.

In 1934 she would star in six films. That year she starred in The Black Cat, a horror film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, which would become her most memorable film in her career. She also starred in the lead role opposite Reb Russell in Range Warfare, and would be named a "WAMPAS Baby Star". Of the thirteen girls selected that year to be "WAMPAS Baby Stars", only four would see any success as actresses. Along with Lund, the other three would be Helen Cohan, Gigi Parrish, and Julie Bishop. It would be the last year that "WAMPAS" selected actresses for that title.

Lund would have roles in twenty one films from 1935 through 1939, many of which were B-movies. Of her last four films, however, she would be uncredited in three. She married Kenneth Higgins, and would continue acting in commercials well into her 50s, but otherwise disappeared from the Hollywood scene until the 1990s when she was invited to a film festival. She attended, and other invitations followed.

In 1997 she took part in the documentary Lugosi: Hollywood`s Dracula, a documentary about the life and career of Bela Lugosi which also featured other actors and actresses such as Howard W. Koch, Louise Currie, and narrated by Robert Clarke. In 2000 Lund took part in the documentary I Used to be in Pictures, which featured many actresses from the early years of Hollywood, which included Beverly Roberts, Muriel Evans and Miriam Seegar, in edition to Lund and others. The documentary searched into Hollywood`s early beginnings, and its pioneers. It would be Lund`s last on-camera work. She died at her home in Rolling Hills, California in 2002, aged 88.
 

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  • Studied drama at Northwestern University. She won a nationwide contest for ``most beautiful college coed,`` in 1933 which included a small acting contract with Universal Studios.
  • Minor 30s leading lady known for her long blonde tresses who came to Hollywood after winning a beauty and talent contest sponsored by Universal. Though she made about 30 films, her best known role was in The Black Cat (1934) as the beautiful victim/sacrifice of satanic high priest Boris Karloff. She retired for marriage and family, but returned sometimes on the film festival circuits, often making the amusing remark that people only remembered her because she "went to bed with Boris Karloff" (referring to a scene in the film).
  • She made her film debut in "Saturday`s Millions", a 1933 Universal football saga starring Robert Young, followed by "Horseplay", a slapstick comedy starring Slim Summerville.
  • Although she made some television commercials in her 50s, she remained out of the spotlight until the early 1990s, when she was invited to be a guest at the Memphis Film Festival. Invitations to other festivals followed.
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