Luana Patten

About Luana Patten

Who is it?: Actress, Soundtrack
Birth Day: July 06, 1938
Birth Place:  Long Beach, California, United States
Died On: May 1, 1996(1996-05-01) (aged 57)\nLong Beach, California, U.S.
Birth Sign: Leo
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 1946–1968; 1988
Spouse(s): Ronny Huntley (1954–1959) (divorced) John Smith (1960–1964) (divorced) Jerry D. Mays (1970–1973) (divorced)

Luana Patten Net Worth

Luana Patten was born on July 06, 1938 in  Long Beach, California, United States, is Actress, Soundtrack. One of the first two contract players for Walt Disney Studios, she made her debut in Song of the South (1946) as a poor white child fascinated by the stories told by Uncle Remus. She made three more films as a child star, then left film for over 10 years. She returned as an ingénue in Rock, Pretty Baby (1956), and followed that by several teen films, retiring from Hollywood completely at the end of 1970, except for a brief cameo in Grotesque (1988).
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💰Luana Patten Net worth: $400,000

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Biography/Timeline

1946

Luana Patten was born in Long Beach, California to Harvey T. Patten and Alma (née Miller) Patten, natives of Enid, Oklahoma. At the age of 3 she was a young model and later was hired by Walt Disney. 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.

1947

She appeared again with Bobby Driscoll in the Pecos Bill segment of Disney's Melody Time. 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 1958, Patten played the part of Elizabeth Buckley in the episode "Twelve Guns" of NBC's Cimarron City western television series. It was on Cimarron City that she met her Future second husband, John Smith, whom she married two years later. The couple divorced in 1964.

1959

In 1959, she played "Abbie Fenton" in the episode "Call Your Shot" of Wanted: Dead of Alive, starring Steve McQueen and the same year played "Ruth" in "The Ruth Marshall Story" season 3, episode 13 of Wagon Train that aired Dec 30, 1959. In 1960, she played "Libby Halstead" in Vincente Minnelli's Home from the Hill. In 1966, she played a saloon girl named "Lorna Medford" in the episode "Credit for a Kill" of Bonanza. 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, A Thunder of Drums, and the Rawhide episode "Incident of the Druid Curse" on CBS. That year she also appeared on Perry Mason as defendant Cynthia Perkins in "The Case of the Scarlet Scandal". She retired from the film industry in 1968 except for a brief cameo in the 1988 film Grotesque.