Phyllis Coates

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Birthday:

15 January 1927, Wichita Falls, Texas, USA

Birth Name:

Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell

Height:

163 cm

Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, Phyllis Coates moved to Hollywood as a teenager with intentions of enrolling at UCLA. A chance encounter with Ken Murray in a Hollywood & Vine restaurant landed her in the comedian's vaudeville show. She started out as a chorus girl and worked her way up to doing skits before moving on to work for veteran showman Earl Carroll and later touring with the USO. Coates got some of her first motion picture experience in comedy short subjects at Warner Brothers and then graduated to roles in early '50s films. After a one-season stint with the Man of Steel (George Reeves on Adventures of Superman (1952)), she began to divide her time among TV, B-movie assignments and serials at Republic. Show less «

[Comparing the wardrobe she wore playing Lois Lane in Adventures of Superman (1952) with Teri Hatcher's in Lois & Clark: The New Adventu...Show more »

[Comparing the wardrobe she wore playing Lois Lane in Adventures of Superman (1952) with Teri Hatcher's in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1993)] I saw Teri in this beautiful dress with her boobs pushed up and I thought, "That's Lois Lane?!?!" I had a suit up to my collarbone. I felt like a horse with a bit in my mouth. Show less «