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Thursday, October 12, 2023

Hollywood Reporter On Passing of Phyllis Coates

Above, Phyllis Coates and Armand in 2007. Photo by Carl Glass.

The first press report on the passing of actress Phyllis Coates has been posted by the Hollywood Reporter.

It begins with:

Phyllis Coates, the first actress to play Daily Planet reporter Lois Lane on television, only to leave the Adventures of Superman after just one season, has died. She was 96.

Coates, who also appeared in Republic Pictures serials and in such films as I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, died Wednesday of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, her daughter Laura Press told The Hollywood Reporter.

A native of Wichita Falls, Texas, Coates first portrayed the headstrong Lois opposite George Reeves as the Man of Steel in the dark sci-fi movie Superman and the Mole Men (1951).

 To read the full article, go here.

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