Joan Alexander who first played ace reporter Lois Lane, Superman’s Girlfriend on the radio and in the movies, gone at 94.
There was no rescue from the Man of Steel for Ms. Alexander as she died of an intestinal ailment May 21 at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.
Joan first played the Daily Planet’s ace reporter on the Mutual radio series The Adventures of Superman in 1940 with Bud Collyer as Superman/Clark Kent.
The dynamic radio duo also provided the voicing for the first appearance of Superman in the movies in a series of 17 animated adventures produced by Max & Dave Fleischer for Paramount during the 1940s. The cartoons set the benchmark for super-hero cinema that has never been surpassed.
Joan and Bud reteamed 20 years later for TV’s first animated New Adventures of Superman which first aired on CBS in 1966.
Joan was also a regular on the long running TV game show The Name’s the Game during the 1950s and moonlighted as Perry Mason’s girl friday Della Street on the radio.
After two failed marriages she married auto distributor Arthur Stanton who first introduced the Volkswagon to America. Their Long Island parties were the talk of high society.
Last year The ENQUIRER reported that Ms. Alexander had launched a lawsuit alleging her financial advisor of being a Man of Steal – accusing him of fraud, professional malpractice
and stealing her fortune. That case is still pending.
