Happy 86th Birthday, Phyllis Coates!

Above, Phyllis Coates and Armand in 2007 in Burbank.  Photo courtesy of Carl Glass.

Phyllis Coates was born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell on this day in 1927 in Wichita Falls, Texas.

She is best known as Lois Lane to George Reeves's Superman in the feature-length movie, Superman and the Mole Men (1951) and in the first (1951) season of the Adventures of Superman on television.

Happy Birthday, Phyllis Coates!