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`SUPERMAN'S' NOT-SO-SUPER LEGACY.


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Margot Kidder isn't the first person involved in the Superman movies or television shows to run into trouble in real life.

Kidder - who played Lois Lane The tense of this article is unsuitable for an encyclopedia.
Please consider rewriting to a detached, past tense.

For the Dutch girl group, see .

Lois Joanne Lane-Kent is a fictional character in the DC Comics’ Superman stories.
 to Christopher Reeve's Superman - was taken to a psychiatric ward Tuesday after she was found wandering disheveled and disoriented dis·o·ri·ent  
tr.v. dis·o·ri·ent·ed, dis·o·ri·ent·ing, dis·o·ri·ents
To cause (a person, for example) to experience disorientation.

Adj. 1.
 through a back yard in Glendale. Authorities found no evidence of foul play.

Reeve was left paralyzed par·a·lyze  
tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es
1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic.

2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear.
 and unable to breathe on his own after a riding accident in May.

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.

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.
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Date:Apr 25, 1996
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