Phyllis Thaxter
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Phyllis Thaxter From the film Bewitched (1945)
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| Born |
Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter November 20, 1919 Portland, Maine, U.S. |
| Died | August 14, 2012 (aged 92) Longwood, Florida, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Alzheimer's disease |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1940–1992 |
| Known for |
Ma Kent in Superman, Ellen Lawson in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo |
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| Children | Skye Aubrey, James Aubrey |
Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter (November 20, 1919 – August 14, 2012) was an American actress.
Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter was born in Portland, Maine to Sidney St. Felix Thaxter, who would later become a Justice of the Maine Supreme Court, and his wife, Phyllis (Schuyler), a former actress and member of the Dutch American Schuyler family.
Prior to appearing in movies, Thaxter was on the stage. When Dorothy McGuire went to Hollywood, Thaxter replaced her in the Broadway play Claudia. In 1944, she signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her movie debut was opposite Van Johnson in the 1944 wartime film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. In the 1945 film-noir Bewitched, Thaxter played Joan Alris Ellis, a woman suffering from split personality. In 1948, she played a cattle owner's daughter alongside Barbara Bel Geddes in Blood on the Moon.
At MGM, she routinely portrayed the ever-patient wife to a number of leading men. She moved to Warner Brothers in the 1950s, but usually played the same type of roles.
Thaxter's career stalled after an attack of polio in 1952. She made a comeback in such television series as Rawhide, portraying Pauline Cushman in the episode "The Blue Spy" (1961), Wagon Train ("The Christine Elliott Story"), and "The Vivian Carter Story ", The Twilight Zone ("Young Man's Fancy"), and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. She also returned to Broadway, appearing in Take Her, She's Mine at the Biltmore in 1961. In 1978, Thaxter was cast along with Glenn Ford, as Jonathan and Martha Kent in the blockbuster film Superman.
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