Joan Alexander

Joan Alexander (born Louise Abrass; April 16, 1915 – May 21, 2009) was an American actress known for her role as Lois Lane on the radio serial The Adventures of Superman and the animated Fleischer Superman short films.

Early life and career Alexander was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to a Lebanese-American family. to actor John Sylvester White, who became known as Principal Woodman on Welcome Back, Kotter, was also unknown to Alexander's family until two years before Alexander's death. Against the Storm and on Perry Mason, in the first portrayal of supporting character Della Street, secretary to defense attorney Mason. She also played Althea on The Brighter Day on radio. Alexander additionally provided Lois Lane's voice in the 1940s Fleischer Studios/Paramount Pictures animated Superman shorts, though she dropped the role after the ninth short, when Famous Studios took over the series and moved production to New Jersey. She reprised the role of Lois Lane for one season of the 1966 Filmation animated series The New Adventures of Superman.

Later life and career Following her divorce from White, Alexander married surgeon Robert Crowley. Author and screenwriter Jane Stanton Hitchcock (born as Jane Crowley) is their daughter. After that second marriage ended in divorce, Alexander in 1954

Alexander appeared on television as a regular panelist on the 1951–1955 ABC-TV game show The Name's the Same. She appeared on Broadway in Poor Richard by Jean Kerr in 1964.

In April 2008, Alexander filed a lawsuit against financial adviser Kenneth I. Starr, alleging the late Stanton had left Alexander a $70 million estate which, according to court paper, Starr used inappropriately and squandered.

Death Alexander died on May 21, 2009, at the age of 94 from an intestinal blockage. She was survived by her son Timothy Stanton, his wife Agnes Stanton and grandsons Liam and Conrad Stanton as well as her daughter, Jane Stanton Hitchcock.