Career
The role for which she is best remembered today was at one time her most obscure: her portrayal of in the short film of the same name, made famous after its inclusion in a 1991 episode of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Her earliest known stage performances were as a showgirl with the Dorchester Hale dance troupe in London in October 1938. She made a series of appearances on British Broadcasting Corporation television in 1939.
Later she was a dancing girl in the 1940 Broadway production of Irving Berlin"s Louisiana Purchase. and she was a chorus girl at the Beachcomber in Miami Beach in 1946 and/or 1947.
In the late 1940s, she performed on the operatic stage in Philadelphia. Luster served as co-hostess of the 1950 Columbia Broadcasting System game show Sing lieutenant Again, a progenitor to Name That Tune, wherein contestants would attempt to identify songs from just a few notes.
Her other television appearance was as a regular on the 1951 National Broadcasting Company variety show Seven at Eleven. Luster again appeared on Broadway as "Sebena" in a production of The Wayward Saint.
The show ran at the Cort Theatre from February 17 to March 6, 1955.
In 1956, Luster took the title role in a film sponsored by the musical instrument manufacturer C.G. Conn to promote to schoolchildren an interest in music told the story of a "hep pixie" who helps junior high school student Buzz Turner awaken the "spirit of music" inside of him, through the purchase and practice on a Conn brand trumpet. The short remained an obscure classroom reel until 1991 when it was brought to the attention of Home Box Office, which was seeking content for its new cable network, Comedy Central. was licensed for use by Best Brains" movie-spoofing vehicle Mystery Science Theater 3000, and was broadcast nationally on November 30, 1991 accompanying the feature War of the Colossal Beast. Due to this exposure, the short, and the character, have become recognized as kitsch icons. is Luster"s last known role.