Anders appeared in a number of low-budget films, including starring roles in Life Begins at 17 and Reform School Girls along with Sally Kellerman. She made her broadway debut with Rex Harrison in The Reluctant Debutante directed by Peter Brooks, which was later made into a film.
Probably her best known performances were as Vincent Price's sister in Corman's The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) and as a murder victim in Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13 (1963). She also appeared in Curtis Harrington's cult classic Night Tide (1961) opposite Dennis Hopper. Hopper would later cast her as one of the hippie commune girls who go skinny dipping with Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider (1969) and she later worked with Nicholson in The Missouri Breaks (1978), among other films.
Her appearances were in a wide range of episodic television, including The Rifleman, The Andy Griffith Show, One Step Beyond, Dragnet and Hunter.She also appeared briefly on soaps, including the Santa Barbara television soap opera during the 1991 – 1992 season.
As a writer, Anders wrote the original screenplay of Fire On the Amazon (using the pseudonym "Margo Blue") for Roger Corman which featured the screen debut of actress Sandra Bullock. She also co-wrote the comedy film Limit Up for MCEG with Richard Martini.
Robert Altman credited Anders for giving his career a boost when she appeared in his film A Cold Day in the Park which premiered in 1969 at the Cannes Film Festival. Anders' friend Jack Nicholson was being feted at the festival for Easy Rider and he made a point of attending a screening and created a media sensation for Altman's work. Nicholson also worked with Anders several of his films, including The Trip, Goin' South, The Last Detail, and The Two Jakes. Nicholson mentioned her passing in his Oscar acceptance speech for As Good As It Gets.
A lifelong Buddhist and supporter of the American chapter of Soka Gakkai International (SGI,) she died of breast cancer, in 1996.
External links
Luana Anders at the Internet Movie Database
Luana Anders at Allmovie
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