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Lucille Lund (June 3, 1913 – February 15, 2002) was an American film actress of the 1930s.
Lucille Lund was born in Buckley, Washington to Oluf and Laura (Skjelkvale) Lund, and was of Norwegian descent. She began her theatrical career as a child doing play extracts and readings. After leaving school she joined a stock company, the Henry Duffy Players, and toured up and down the Pacific Coast. She then studied drama at Northwestern University in Chicago. Lund studied drama while attending Northwestern University.
In 1933 she won a nationwide contest, "The Most Beautiful College Coed",... MORE
Lucille Lund (June 3, 1913 – February 15, 2002) was an American film actress of the 1930s.
Lucille Lund was born in Buckley, Washington to Oluf and Laura (Skjelkvale) Lund, and was of Norwegian descent. She began her theatrical career as a child doing play extracts and readings. After leaving school she joined a stock company, the Henry Duffy Players, and toured up and down the Pacific Coast. She then studied drama at Northwestern University in Chicago. Lund studied drama while attending Northwestern University.
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 starred in six films. That year she starred in The Black Cat, a horror film starring Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi. 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. It was the last year LESS
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