LUANA PATTEN

Luana Patten was an actress from the 1940s to the 1980s. She was a Disney child actress who starred in Song of the South at 7 years old and in Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time So Dear to My Heart and Pecos Bill over the next two years. She then retired, but returned 6 years later as a teen actress, but met with only mixed success in lesser films and TV appearances (she may be best remembered during this time from her starring role in Rock, Pretty Baby in 1956, opposite Sal Mineo and John Saxon), and she retired again in 1970, making one more movie 18 years later. She had three pretty brief marriages, and no children, and she passed away in 1996 when she was just 57.