Noel Neill
Birthday:
25 November 1920, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Birth Name:
Noel Darleen Neill
Height:
163 cm
Minnesota-born Noel Neill's ambition was to be a journalist like her father, the editor of a Minneapolis newspaper. However, she was hired by Bing Crosby to sing at the Turf Club at the race track in Del Mar, California (Crosby was one of the owners). Shortly thereafter, in 1941, she was signed to a contract by Paramount Pictures. She got earl...
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Minnesota-born Noel Neill's ambition was to be a journalist like her father, the editor of a Minneapolis newspaper. However, she was hired by Bing Crosby to sing at the Turf Club at the race track in Del Mar, California (Crosby was one of the owners). Shortly thereafter, in 1941, she was signed to a contract by Paramount Pictures. She got early experience in television by hosting and performing on several experimental programs broadcast locally in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, and it was around that time that she began appearing in serials, first at Columbia and then for Republic. While she is best known for playing Lois Lane in the TV series Adventures of Superman (1952) beginning in the second season in 1953. She actually first played Lois in the 1948 serial Superman (1948). She replaced Phyllis Coates in the part on the TV series when Coates was offered a leading part in another TV series and left the show. When the series ended in 1957, Neill retired from the industry. Show less «
[Referring to the extent of her role as Lois Lane and Jack Larson's as Jimmy Olsen on Adventures of Superman (1952)] We spent most of our ti...Show more »
[Referring to the extent of her role as Lois Lane and Jack Larson's as Jimmy Olsen on Adventures of Superman (1952)] We spent most of our time bound, gagged, and waiting for the bomb to go off. Show less «
[Speaking of George Reeves] In between takes, he would look into the camera, lift up his glasses and wink. He was our hero.
[Speaking of George Reeves] In between takes, he would look into the camera, lift up his glasses and wink. He was our hero.
[About George Reeves' death] I am not aware of anyone who wanted George dead. I never said I thought George was murdered. I just don't know ...Show more »
[About George Reeves' death] I am not aware of anyone who wanted George dead. I never said I thought George was murdered. I just don't know what happened. All I know is that George always seemed happy to me, and I saw him two days before he died and he was still happy then. Show less «
[on fans] Fame has never been an issue for me. I can honestly say that I have never, ever had any unpleasant encounters with fans or autogra...Show more »
[on fans] Fame has never been an issue for me. I can honestly say that I have never, ever had any unpleasant encounters with fans or autograph collectors. I guess I just attract the mature, respectful fan. Show less «
[on working on the "Teenagers" series of films for Monogram Pictures in the late 1940s] I don't care, you can say there were 20 for all I ca...Show more »
[on working on the "Teenagers" series of films for Monogram Pictures in the late 1940s] I don't care, you can say there were 20 for all I care. June Preisser was stuck up anyway. Only because she'd been in vaudeville 50 years before that, she thought she was a star. I didn't like her much. And vice-versa, I guess. Show less «
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