ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Thursday, April 25, 1996 TAG: 9604250056
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-5 EDITION: METRO
The Superman Curse appears to have struck Margot Kidder, the actress who played Lois Lane in the ``Superman'' movies.
Her ``Superman'' co-star, Christopher Reeve, was left paralyzed and unable to breathe on his own after a riding accident in Virginia last May. The first ``Superman'' movie with Reeve and Kidder came out in 1978 and was followed by three sequels.
George Reeves, who starred in the 1951 movie ``Superman and the Mole Men'' and did 104 episodes of TV's ``The Adventures of Superman'' from 1951 to 1957, died of a gunshot wound to the head in 1959.
Police ruled Reeves' death a suicide, but his mother believed he was murdered. There were reports at the time that the actor was despondent about the end of his ``Superman'' run.
Kirk Alyn, the first live-action Superman, bitterly complained that he had been typecast and couldn't get another movie role after the movie serials that ran from 1948 to 1950. Now 85, he has Alzheimer's disease and was last reported living in Texas.
- Associated Press
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