Luana Patten

Luana Patten
Born	July 6, 1938(1938-07-06) Long Beach, California, U.S.
Died	May 1, 1996(1996-05-01) (aged 57) Long Beach, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1946–1968; 1988
Spouse	Ronny Huntley (1954–1959) (divorced) John Smith (1960–1964) (divorced) Jerry D. Mays (1970–1973) (divorced)

Luana Patten (July 6, 1938 – May 1, 1996) was an American film actress.

Career

In Song of the South. Clockwise from left: Ginny (Luana Patten), Uncle Remus (James Baskett), Johnny (Bobby Driscoll) and Toby (Glenn Leedy)

Luana Patten was born in Long Beach, California, the daughter to Harvey T. Patten and Alma Miller. Patten made her first film appearance in Joel Chandler Harris's 1946 musical Song of the South with Bobby Driscoll. They also appeared together in Song of the South's sister film So Dear to My Heart.

She appeared again with Bobby Driscoll in the Pecos Bill segment of Disney's Melody Time. In 1957 she also co-starred with Jock Mahoney in Joe Dakota. In 1947, she appeared with Edgar Bergen, Charlie McCarthy, and Mortimer Snerd during the live action scenes in Fun and Fancy Free. She played the role of Priscilla Lapham in Disney's 1957 production of Johnny Tremain.

In 1959 she played the role of Abbie Fenton in the Wanted: Dead of Alive episode "Call Your Shot". In 1960, she played the role of Libby Halstead in Vincente Minnelli's melodrama Home from the Hill. In 1966 she had a small part as Nora White, the new bride of the reformed "Whitey" played by Kurt Russell, in Follow Me, Boys!. She also appeared in Fun and Fancy Free and A Thunder of Drums, and the Rawhide episode "Incident of the Druid Curse". She retired from the film industry in the 1960s, but returned to make a cameo as an elderly woman in Grotesque.

Death

Luana Patten died from respiratory failure in her home at Long Beach, California, aged 57. She is interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Long Beach, California.^[1]

Filmography

Features:

• Song of the South (1946)
• Little Mister Jim (1947)
• Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
• Melody Time (1948)
• So Dear to My Heart (1948)
• Rock, Pretty Baby (1956)
• Johnny Tremain (1957)
• Joe Dakota (1957)
• The Restless Years (1958)
• The Young Captives (1959)
• Home from the Hill (1960)
• The Music Box Kid (1960)
• Go Naked in the World (1961)
• The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (1961)
• A Thunder of Drums (1961)
• Shoot Out at Big Sag (1962)
• Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
• They Ran for Their Lives (1968)
• Grotesque (1988)

Short Subjects:

• Unusual Occupations: Film Tot Holiday (1947)
• Pecos Bill (1948)

References

External links

Biography portal

• Luana Patten at the Internet Movie Database
• Luana Patten at Find a Grave

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