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Lucille Lund

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Lucille Lund was born on June 3, 1912 in Buckley, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for Timber War (1935), The Black Cat (1934) and What Price Vengeance (1937). She was married to Kenneth Higgins. She died on February 15, 2002 in Rolling Hills, California, USA.

Said that director Edgar G. Ulmer came on to her on the set of The Black Cat (1934). When she turned him down, he left her hanging while everyone went to lunch, for over an hour, in a glass case, suspended by wires in her special panties.
Claimed that she bled from the mouth while filming The Black Cat (1934) after being left on a slab table with a metal pipe contraption too tight under her neck. Harry Cording found her and got her off the table, quite possibly saving her life.
Minor '30s leading lady known for her long blonde tresses who came to Hollywood after winning a beauty and talent contest sponsored by Universal. Though she made about 30 films, her best-known role was in The Black Cat (1934) as the beautiful victim/sacrifice of satanic high priest Boris Karloff. She retired for marriage and family, but returned sometimes on the film festival circuits, often making the amusing remark that people only remembered her because she "went to bed with Boris Karloff" (referring to a scene in the film).
Although she made some television commercials in her 50s, she remained out of the spotlight until the early 1990s, when she was invited to be a guest at the Memphis Film Festival. Invitations to other festivals followed.
Wampas Baby Star in 1934.

[on cowboy actor Reb Russell and the two westerns she made with him, Range Warfare (1934) and Fighting Through (1934)] They were terrible movies--the worst of the worst. Reb was a very nice man--he must have been divorced by this time, as we dated a few times. He was a perfect gentleman, who always wore expensive cowboy boots, even on our dates! Reb was not an actor--he couldn't act his way out of a paper bag--but he was so congenial, friendly, nice. Portly, but a nice looking man.
I really think the reason you remember me is because I went to bed with Boris Karloff.
I did some crazy pictures, I'll tell you!

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