Luana Anders

Luana Anders
Luana Anders in trailer to Dementia 13
Born	Luana Margo Anderson (1938-05-12)May 12, 1938 New York City, New York, U.S.
Died	July 21, 1996(1996-07-21) (aged 58) Mar Vista, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	breast cancer
Occupation	Film and television actress
Years active	1955–1996

Luana Anders (May 12, 1938 – July 21, 1996) was an American film and television actress.

Anders, born Luana Margo Anderson, began her career appearing in several supporting roles in low budget B-movies for American International Pictures, quite a few of them directed by Roger Corman. She was part of a group of well-known actors who met in the acting class of actor Jeff Corey. Fellow thespians included Jack Nicholson, Sally Kellerman, Robert Towne and eventually Corman, who cast his early films directly out of the class which he also attended.

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.

Her best known performances may have been 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 appeared in Curtis Harrington's cult film 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).