Lucille Lund

Lucille Lund (June 3, 1913 – February 15, 2002) was an American actress. She is best known for her role in the film The Black Cat.

Background Lucille Lund was born on June 3, 1913, who had emigrated from Norway. As a child, she began performing play extracts and readings. After leaving school she joined Henry Duffy Players, a stock company and toured up and down the Pacific Coast. graduating in 1933. She was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.

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. Her final film was The Awful Goof (1939).

Later years 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.

Personal life and death In 1937, Lund married Kenneth Higgins, whom she met when they were students at Northwestern. (1937–1973), a radio producer-writer. In 1939, she ended her acting career after the birth of her two daughters.

Horse Play (1933) - Iris Marley Fighting Through (1934) - Lucille Kiss and Make-Up (1934) - Magda Young and Beautiful (1934) The Black Cat (1934) - Karen Folies Bergère de Paris (1935) - Girl in bar Timber War (1935) - Sally Martin Range Warfare (1935) - Little Feather Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) - Showgirl Prison Shadows (1936) - Claire Thomas Rio Grande Romance (1936) - Rose Carter The Cowboy Star (1936) - Mother Panic on the Air (1936) - Cigarette girl Don't Get Personal (1936) - Bridesmaid It Happened in Hollywood (1936) - American girl The Devil is Driving (1937) - Dolly Blake of Scotland Yard (1937) - The Duchess A Fight to the Finish (1937) - Mabel What Price Vengeance (1937) - Babe Foster Start Cheering (1938) - Flossie There's That Woman Again (1938) - Receptionist