Lucille Lund
Lucille Lund was an American actress. She is best known for her role in the film The Black Cat.
Background
Lucille Lund was born in Buckley, Washington to Olaf Sylfestson Lund and Laura Lund, who were immigrants from Oppland, Norway. She began her theatrical career as a child doing play extracts and readings. After leaving school she joined Henry Duffy Players, a stock company and toured up and down the Pacific Coast. She then studied drama at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Career
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 that "WAMPAS" selected actresses for that title. Lund had roles in 21 films from 1935 through 1939, many of which were B-movies, such as Prison Shadows. Of her last four films, she was uncredited in three.
Filmography
Horseplay - Iris MarleyFighting Through - LucilleKiss and Make-Up - MagdaYoung and Beautiful The Black Cat - KarenFolies Bergère de Paris - Girl in barTimber War - Sally MartinRange Warfare - Little FeatherBroadway Melody of 1936 - ShowgirlPrison Shadows - Claire ThomasRio Grande Romance - Rose CarterThe Cowboy Star - MotherPanic on the Air - Cigarette girlDon't Get Personal - BridesmaidIt Happened in Hollywood - American girlThe Devil is Driving - DollyBlake of Scotland Yard - The DuchessA Fight to the Finish - MabelWhat Price Vengeance - Babe FosterStart Cheering - FlossieThere's That Woman Again - Receptionist
Later years
In 1937, she married Kenneth Higgins, a radio producer-writer. They were the parents of two daughters. In 1939, she ended her acting career after the birth of her two daughters. After the death of her husband in 1973, she returned to acting in commercials. In 1997 she took part in the documentary Lugosi: Hollywood's Dracula, about the life and career of Bela Lugosi. 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 addition 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.