Phyllis Thaxter, who played the Man Of Steel's adoptive mother in the 1978 blockbuster starring Christopher Reeve, has died at age 90 says THR.
According to her daughter, actress Skye Aubrey, Thaxter passed away Tuesday at her Florida home after a battle with Alzheimer's Disease.
Thaxter's made her screen on debut in the 1944 war flick "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo", then other notable films like "Bewitched," "Week-End at the Waldorf," 1947's "The Sea of Grass" with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn and Act of Violence ." came her way.
She then appered alongside John Garfield and Patricia Neal in "The Breaking Point" her other credits "Springfield Rifle" with Gary Cooper, "Jim Thorpe -- All-American" with Burt Lancaster and "She's Working Her Way Through College" with Ronald Reagan.
Although Thaxter's big-screen career was derailed when she contracted polio in 1952, she found regular work in television on "Twilight Zone", "The F.B.I." , "Cannon", "Medical Center", and "Barnaby Jones"
Thaxter won the role of Ma Kent in STM in part as the then mother in law of Producer Ilya Salkind but proved herself a worthy choice--her scene with Glenn Ford is just great.
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