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| Above, George Reeves and Phyllis Coates in Superman and the Mole Men. |
Today actress Phyllis Coates, the last remaining cast member of the Adventures of Superman, is celebrating her 95th birthday today.
I met her once at the Hollywood Collectors Show in Burbank in 2007.
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| Above, Phyllis Coates and yours truly at the Hollywood Collectors Show. Photo by Carl Glass. |
A biography (from Wikipedia):
Phyllis Coates is an American actress best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole Men and in the first season of the television series Adventures of Superman.
Coates played Lois Lane in the first season of Adventures of Superman. Noel Neill, who had played Lois Lane in two Columbia Superman serials, in 1948 and 1950, replaced Coates, who was not available for the second season. With the death of Noel Neill on July 3, 2016, Coates became the last surviving regular cast member from the Adventures of Superman TV series.
Coates's Superman fame has obscured the fact that she was one of Hollywood's most consistently employed actresses of the 1950s and 1960s. She freelanced steadily, appearing in numerous low-budget features, many of them westerns, as well as serials and a steady stream of TV appearances, both as a regular in several series and as a guest cast member in others.
A big Happy Birthday to Phyllis Coates!
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