Joan Alexander “Lois Lane” Dies At 94 (Photos)

Posted on May 24, 2009

Joan Alexander, the first to play pretty reporter Lois Lane (Superman’s Girlfriend) on the radio and in the early Superman movies has died at the age of 94. Read more on the original Lois Lane below.

Joan Alexander passed away May 21 of an intestinal ailment at New York’s Presbyterian Hospital.

Alexander 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.

Collyer and Alexander also provided the voices for the first appearance of Superman in the movies in a series of 17 animated adventures produced by Max & Dave Fleischer for Paramount in the 1940s.

Then Joan Alexander and Bud Collyer teamed up again twenty years later for TV’s first animated “New Adventures of Superman” that aired on CBS in 1966.

Joan Alexander was also seen on the television game show called “The Name’s the Game”, and starred as Perry Mason’s girl friday, Della Street, on the radio.

Our condolences to Joan Alexander’s family on her death.

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