- Lucille Lund
infobox actress
birthdate=birth date|1913|6|3
birthplace=Buckley, Washington ,U.S.
deathdate=death date and age|2002|2|15|1913|6|3
deathplace=Rolling Hills, California
spouse=Kenneth Higgins (1937-1973) 2 daughters
occupation=Film actress Lucille Lund (
June 3 ,1913 –February 15 ,2002 ) was an Americanfilm actress of the 1930s.Born in
Buckley, Washington , Lund first attendedNorthwestern University , studyingdrama . In 1933 she won a nationwide contest, "The Most Beautiful College Coed", which included a smallUniversal 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 oppositeRobert 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 andBela Lugosi , which would become her most memorable film in her career. She also starred in the lead role oppositeReb 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 beHelen Cohan ,Gigi Parrish , andJulie 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 incommercial s 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 byRobert 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 includedBeverly Roberts ,Muriel Evans andMiriam 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 inRolling Hills, California in 2002, aged 88.External links
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* [http://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/northwestern/summer2002/classnotes/inmemoriam.htm Northwestern University Lucille Lund]
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