SUPERMAN’S LOIS LANE DEAD AT 69
Tributes after star dies at home in her sleep
THE most well-loved Lois Lane of them all, Margot Kidder, has died aged 69.
The actress, who starred as the tenacious Daily Planet reporter opposite Christopher Reeve in the 1978 Superman film and its three sequels, died in her sleep at home in Livingston, Montana, on Sunday.
On Wednesday, in a phone chat with a radio show, she said she was “in bed with flu, puking every hour and a half ”.
Describing the illness as “not fun”, she spoke to the Drew and Mike Show to promote an appearance at Motor City Comic
Con, reported TMZ.
A spokeswoman at Franzen-davis funeral home said the cause of death was unknown.
Kidder was unable to work for two years after a serious car crash in 1990, and was later made bankrupt. In 1996, she suffered a highly publicised breakdown and went missing for four days.
She was found by police in a delusional state and was later diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
But she refused to believe in the “Superman curse”, which was blamed for misfortunes that befell those involved in the films, including Reeve, who was paralysed in a riding accident.
She said: “It’s rubbish. The idea cracks me up. What about
the luck of Superman? When my car crashed, if I hadn’t hit a telegraph pole after rolling three times, I would have fallen down a 60ft ravine. Why don’t people focus on that?”
Margot, who was married three times, leaves a daughter Maggie and two grandchildren.
Born in Canada, Margot got her break in 1970 film Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx opposite Gene Wilder.
She won an Emmy in 2015 for kids’ TV show R. L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour, and was a guest in Superman TV series Smallville. In 2005, she became a US citizen and was an activist, arrested at the White House in 2011 at an oil pipeline protest.
Superman co-star Sarah Douglas, who played villainous Ursa, tweeted: “So saddened by the news.” Smallville producer Mark Millar wrote: “My Lois Lane has passed away.”