Joan Alexander


For the Scottish soprano, see Joan Alexander (soprano).















Joan Alexander
Joan Alexander.jpg
Born
Louise Abrass


(1915-04-16)April 16, 1915

Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

DiedMay 21, 2009(2009-05-21) (aged 94)
New York City

Other namesJoan Stanton
OccupationActress
Years active1941–1968
Spouse(s)
John Sylvester White
Robert Crowley
Arthur Stanton
Children3

Joan Alexander (born Louise Abrass; April 16, 1915 – May 21, 2009)[1] was an American actress known for her role as Lois Lane on the radio serial The Adventures of Superman and the animated films the Fleischer Superman cartoons.[2]




Contents





  • 1 Early life and career


  • 2 Voice of Lois Lane


  • 3 Later life and career


  • 4 Death


  • 5 See also


  • 6 References


  • 7 External links




Early life and career


Alexander was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota to a Lebanese American family.[3] Her father died when she was three,[3] and when her mother remarried, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York.[1] and young Louise was sent to attend a convent school on Long Island.[3]


She became a model and actress, and studied acting in Europe with Benno Schneider, a director in the Yiddish theater.[3] Though Abrass later took the first name Joan after the actress Joan Crawford, the origin of the name Alexander is unknown, according to her family.[1] An early, first marriage in 1944[3] to actor John Sylvester White, who would become best known as Principal Woodman on Welcome Back, Kotter, was also unknown to Alexander's family until two years before Alexander's death.[1]



Voice of Lois Lane


Alexander portrayed newspaper reporter Lois Lane in the superhero radio program The Adventures of Superman for more than 1,600 episodes.[2] The series began in 1940, two years after Superman's debut in the modern-day DC Comics' Action Comics #1 (June 1938), with Lane first appearing in the seventh episode.[1] Though most sources indicate she was not the first actress cast,[1] Alexander was cast early in the series' run and became the radio role's signature performer.[1]


Initially, the show, which ran through to 1951,[1] was syndicated through the Mutual Broadcasting System's cornerstone station, WOR in New York, subsequently taken up by the Mutual network and finally to ABC.[2] Alexander also was heard on Dimension X and Philo Vance,[4]Against the Storm[2] and on Perry Mason, in the first portrayal of supporting character Della Street, secretary to defense attorney Mason.[5]
She also played Althea on The Brighter Day on radio.[6]
Alexander additionally provided Lois Lane's voice in the 1940s Fleischer Studios/Paramount Pictures (Famous Studios) animated Superman shorts. She reprised the role of Lois Lane for one season of the 1966 Filmation animated series The New Adventures of Superman.[7]



Later life and career


Following her divorce from White, Alexander married surgeon Robert Crowley. Future author and screenwriter Jane Stanton Hitchcock (born as Jane Crowley) is their daughter.[8] After that second marriage ended in divorce, Alexander in 1954[1] or 1955[3] married Arthur Stanton, chairman of the Orangeburg, New York-based World-Wide Volkswagen, at the time the distributor of Volkswagen and Audi vehicles in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut,[8] and which helped introduce the Volkswagen Beetle to the U.S.[3] Stanton, who died January 20, 1987,[8] adopted Alexander & Crowley's daughter, Jane when she was 9 years old. The couple's other children were sons Adam (died 1993) and Timothy. The Stantons entertained lavishly at their Manhattan apartment on the Upper East Side and their home in East Hampton, New York; their daughter told The New York Times that author George Plimpton proposed to his future wife, Freddy Espy, at one party there, that composer Leonard Bernstein sometimes performed at the piano, and that comedy playwright Neil Simon wrote a sketch for the daughter's 21st birthday.[9]


Alexander appeared on television as a regular panelist on the 1951–1955 ABC-TV game show The Name's the Same.[10][11] Alexander appeared on Broadway in Poor Richard by Jean Kerr in 1964.[12]
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.[13][14]



Death


Alexander died on May 21, 2009, aged 94, from an intestinal blockage. She was survived by her son, Timothy Stanton of New York City and his wife Agnes Stanton, daughter, Jane Stanton Hitchcock, her grandsons Liam and Conrad and her half sister, Elaine Rebay McDonald.[1][15][3]



See also



  • Joanne Siegel, original model for Lois Lane


References




  1. ^ abcdefghij Weber, Bruce. "Joan A. Stanton, Radio Voice of Lois Lane, Dies at 94", The New York Times, May 22, 2009


  2. ^ abcd Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-time Radio. US: Oxford University Press. pp. 14, 17. ISBN 0-19-507678-8..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em


  3. ^ abcdefgh Bernstein, Adam (May 23, 2009). "1940s Radio Actress Joan Alexander Dies at 94". The Washington Post.


  4. ^ Lackman, Ron. "Philo Vance". The Encyclopedia of American Radio. New York: Checkmark Books. p. 222. ISBN 0-8160-4137-7.


  5. ^ Cox, Jim (1999). "Perry Mason". The Great Radio Soap Operas: The 31 Classic Daytime Dramas, 1930–60. McFarland. p. 176. ISBN 0-7864-0589-9.


  6. ^ Dunning, John. (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press.
    ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. P. 120.


  7. ^ Scivally, Bruce (2008). Superman on Film, Television, Radio and Broadway. McFarland & Co. p. 72. ISBN 0-7864-3166-0.


  8. ^ abc "Arthur Stanton, 69, Chairman Of Distributor of Volkswagen". The New York Times. January 22, 1987. Retrieved October 14, 2008.


  9. ^ Norwich, William (June 6, 2002). "At home with: Jane Stanton Hitchcock: In the Land of Toile, Murder Most Foul". New York Times. Retrieved October 15, 2008.


  10. ^ Brooks, Tim (1999). "Name's the Same". The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–present. Earle Marsh. Ballantine Books. p. 712. ISBN 0-345-42923-0.


  11. ^ Google Books Page


  12. ^ "Internet Broadway Database". 2008-10-10.


  13. ^ Jose Martinez (April 17, 2008). "Ex-voice of Lois Lane sues, calls adviser man of steal". New York Daily News.


  14. ^ Nelson D. Schwartz (June 6, 2010). "Untangling a Ponzi Scheme With a Hollywood Twist". The New York Times.


  15. ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0018510/bio




External links


  • Obituary New York Social Diary


  • Joan Alexander on IMDb


  • Joan Alexander at Find a Grave


  • Public Domain Radio: archive for radio's The Adventures of Superman[permanent dead link]

  • Info on What's My Line? Ep#65, 1952 TV Digest article about Joan Alexander


  • "Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane" (fan site)







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