Today is not only Thanksgiving. It's also the birthday of Noel Neill, the beloved actress who played the role of Lois Lane on the George Reeves Adventures of Superman TV show and in a serial that preceded it. The Superman show was remarkably entertaining considering the silliness of many of the scripts and how little money was spent to film them. That it worked had a lot to do with the near-invulnerable appeal of the title character but also to the charisma and strong acting abilities of the regular cast. They made a lot of weak material work…and a lot of us will always have a warm spot for George Reeves, Jack Larson and Ms. Neill.
It may not be polite to divulge a lady's age but you're only one Google click from finding out that she turns ninety today. I'm pleased to say she still makes the rounds of conventions to answer questions, meet her fans, autograph a fine autobiography…and let people like me interview her. As far as I know, there are no videos of the chats I've done with her but my friend Joe Ferrara, who runs a great bookshop called Atlantis Fantasyworld in Santa Cruz interviewed her four years ago and Joe had the good sense to have cameras rolling. It's in three parts which should run one after the other in the player I've embedded below. Together, it's about a half hour and I thought you might enjoy spending that much time with this classy lady…
