Noel Neill
[3] Following high school graduation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Neill took up professional acting and modeling in the early 1940s before taking the role of Lois Lane.She appeared in the last of the original Charlie Chan movies, Sky Dragon (1949), and also played damsels in distress in Monogram Westerns and Republic Pictures serials.[11] In 1945, producer Sam Katzman gave Neill the recurring role of Betty Rogers, an aggressive reporter for a high-school newspaper, in his series of "Teen Agers" musical comedies, beginning with Junior Prom in 1946.[13] When Katzman was casting his Superman serial for Columbia Pictures, he remembered Noel Neill's news-hawk portrayals and signed her to play Lois Lane.When Adventures of Superman came to television in 1951, veteran movie actors George Reeves and Phyllis Coates took the leading roles for the first season.While Phyllis Coates generally distanced herself from the role, Neill embraced her association with Lois Lane, giving frequent talks on college campuses during the 1970s, when interest in the series was revived, endearing herself to audiences with her warmth and humor.[17][18] In the third season episode "Midvale" of the Supergirl TV series in November 2017, Martian Manhunter disguises himself as Supergirl's mother Alura In-Ze (Erica Durance), taking the alias of Noel Neill in reference to Neill's and Durance's past portrayals of Lois Lane.Her publicist and biographer, Larry Ward, paid tribute to her role as Lois Lane, as did actor Mark Hamill.
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