Luana Patten(1938-1996)
- 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 several more films as a child star, then left film for 8
years. She returned as an ingénue in
Rock, Pretty Baby! (1956), and
followed that by several more films and TV episodes, retiring from Hollywood completely
at the end of 1970, except for a brief cameo in
Grotesque (1988).