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Remembering Noel Neill…Superman’s Lois Lane Is Gone

Posted on July 5, 2016October 28, 2016

Remembering Noel Neill…Superman’s Lois Lane Is Gone

Actress Noel Neill, the First Lois Lane of the Screen, Dies at 95

She starred as the intrepid Daily Planet newspaper reporter in 1948 and ’50 movie serials and in TV’s ‘Adventures of Superman.’

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