Minnesota-born Noel Neill's ambition was to be a journalist like her father, the editor of a Minneapolis newspaper. However, she was hired by Bing Crosby to sing at the Turf Club at the race track in Del Mar, California (he was one of the owners), and shortly thereafter she was signed to a contract by Paramount, in 1941. She got early experience in television by hosting and performing on several experimental programs broadcast locally in Los Angeles in the late '40s, and it was around that time that she began appearing in serials, first at Columbia and then for Republic. While she is best known for playing Lois Lane in the TV series "The Adventures of Superman" in 1953, she actually first played Lois in the 1948 serial "Superman." She replaced Phyllis Coates in the part on the TV series when Coates was offered a leading part in another TV series and left the Superman show. When the series ended in 1957, Neill retired from the industry.
Campus Sleuth (1948): $150/week
Sarge Goes to College (1947): $150/week
Vacation Days (1947): $150/week
High School Hero (1946): $150/week
Freddie Steps Out (1946): $150/week

Her ancestors are from Sandnes in Norway. Same town as the famed Norwegian Hammer film starlet, Julie Ege. In 1957, she appeared briefly with her Adventures of Superman co-star George Reeves in a nightclub act in which she sang and he played an upright bass. A trained singer and dancer, she had a night club career in her salad days performing in various niteries on the Sunset Strip including Ciro's, the Macambo and the Trocadero. Arguably the most prolific actor or actress in Superman's live-action legacy, she played Lois Lane in the two Superman serials, replaced Phyllis Coates as Lane in Adventures of Superman during the second season, had a cameo in Superman, guest-starred on The Adventures of Superboy and appears in Superman Returns.