Joan Alexander
| Joan Alexander | |
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Alexander in photo of the cast of The Adventures of Superman
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| Born |
Louise Abrass April 16, 1915 St. Paul, Minnesota, United States |
| Died | May 21, 2009 (aged 94) New York City, New York, United States |
| Other names | Joan Stanton |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1941–1968 |
| Spouse(s) |
John Sylvester White Robert Crowley Arthur Stanton |
| Children | 3 |
Joan Alexander (April 16, 1915 – May 21, 2009) was an American actress known for her role as Lois Lane on the radio serial The Adventures of Superman (1940-1951).
Joan Alexander was born as Louise Abrass in St. Paul, Minnesota, to a Lebanese American family. Her father died when she was three, and when her mother remarried, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York. and young Louise was sent to attend a convent school on Long Island.
She became a model and actress, and studied acting in Europe with Benno Schneider, a director in the Yiddish theater. Though Abrass later took the first name Joan after the actress Joan Crawford, the origin of the name Alexander is unknown, according to her family. An early, first marriage in 1944 to actor John Sylvester White, who would become best known as Principal Woodman on Welcome Back Kotter, was also unknown to Alexander's family until two years before Alexander's death.
Joan Alexander portrayed newspaper reporter Lois Lane in the superhero radio program The Adventures of Superman for more than 1,600 episodes. The series began in 1940, two years after Superman's debut in the modern-day DC Comics' Action Comics #1 (June 1938), with Lane first appearing in the seventh episode. Though most sources indicate she was not the first actress cast, Alexander was cast early in the series' run and became the radio role's signature performer.
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