Phyllis Coates
Birthday: 1927-01-15
Place of Birth: Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell; January 15, 1927) was an American actress best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the 1951 film Superman and the Mole-Men and in the first season of the television series Adventures of Superman. Coates signed a movie contract with Warner Bros. extending from 1948 to 1956. She co-starred with George O'Hanlon as the title character's wife in the studio's Joe McDoakes short-subject comedies. She acted in film serials including Jungle Drums of Africa (1953), Gunfighters of the Northwest (1953), and Panther Girl of the Kongo (1955). Her film career also included roles in Girls in Prison (1956), I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957), Blood Arrow (1958), Cattle Empire (1958), The Incredible Petrified World (1959), The Baby Maker (1970) and Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn (1989). Coates was one of Hollywood's most consistently employed actresses of the 1950s and '60s. She freelanced steadily, appearing in numerous low-budget features, many of them Westerns, as well as serials and a steady stream of TV appearances, both as a regular in several series and as a guest cast member in others. All this was in addition to the "McDoakes" shorts, in which she continued to appear until Warner Bros. discontinued the series in 1956.
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I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he ...
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The Incredible Petrified World
When the cable breaks on their diving bell four people find themselves trapped in a hidden underwate...
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The Baby Maker
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who ...
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Superman and the Mole Men
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the...
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So You Want a Raise
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run t...
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So You Want to Be an Heir
Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the...
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So You Want a Television Set
Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop ...
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So You Want to Play the Piano
Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Fla...
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Girls in Prison
An inmate is persuaded to take part in a breakout by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they belie...
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Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn
The supposed story of superstar Marilyn Monroe's death...as told by a "friend" of hers. Watch flashb...
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So You Think You're Not Guilty
Joe McDoakes pleads "not guilty" to a traffic violation but is convicted anyway. Handling this setba...
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Panther Girl of the Kongo
Jean Evans of an international wildlife foundation, who is known to Africa as 'the Panther Girl' bec...
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Blues Busters
The Bowery Boys open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice....
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So You Want to Be a Bachelor
"I never knew what happiness was till I got married—and then it was too late," Joe recalls, flashing...
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So You Want to Wear the Pants
It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes...
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The Claw Monsters
An evil scientist in a remote jungle location cultivates giant crawfish (!) as a means of scaring tr...
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Cattle Empire
After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree,...
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So You Want to Throw a Party
Joe and Alice McDoakes are planning on throwing a party, but Joe mixes up his list of creditors with...
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Scorching Fury
Three masked bandits responsible for a wave of holdups and bank robberies stick up a stagecoach on i...
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Fargo
The brother (House Peters Jr.) of rancher Bill Martin (Bill Elliott) is killed in a stampede started...
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The Screen Director
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is...
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Invasion, U.S.A.
A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union....
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Oklahoma Justice
Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a lady bank robber in this average Mack Brown series late-entry fr...
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Canyon Raiders
Whip Wilson only gets to crack his trademark weapon once in this economic Western filmed in toto at ...
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Wyoming Roundup
When newcomers Whip and Bob break up a saloon fight they are made town Marshals. This puts then in t...
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Hollywood in the Atomic Age: Monsters! Martians! Mad Scientists!
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the peop...
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Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shor...
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Man from Sonora
Someone stole Johnny Mack Brown's horse. If he can locate his missing horse, then he can prove they ...
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Blood Arrow
Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coate...
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Stage to Blue River
Whip Wilson has to stop bandits who are trying to take over a stage line....
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Nevada Badmen
The "badmen" of the title in this average western from Monogram are Waller, a greedy express agent a...
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So Your Wife Wants to Work
Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather sh...
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Marshal of Cedar Rock
Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the...
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El Paso Stampede
The cattle that are being rustled apparently vanish as no one is able to find them. But Rocky Lane, ...
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Perils of the Jungle
On an African safari with his friend Grant, Clyde Beatty plans to buy some black-maned Numbian lions...
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Canyon Ambush
A mysterious masked rider and his gang are murdering ranchers and robbing stages. Government Agent J...
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The Maverick
Wild Bill Elliott must escort a gang of killer cattleman who have been terrorizing homesteaders....
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The Sun Was Setting
A woman is dying in her apartment. Two friends visit her and she tells them she wants to go to China...
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So You Want to Hold Your Husband
Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor...
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Smart Girls Don't Talk
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans....
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The Story of Superman
This is the complete story of the origin of Superman, his career in comics, cartoons and film. Every...
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The Longhorn
A double-crossing cowboy and his gang of henchmen steal cattle, even from friends, in this classic W...
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Outlaws of Texas
Monogram's Outlaws of Texas is surprisingly bereft of the action highlights one might expect from st...
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Topeka
Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the arche...
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Gunfighters of the Northwest
Constable Ward is assigned to track down a mysterious villain known only as The Leader. Trying to lo...
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My Blue Heaven
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a ch...
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Hollywood: The Movie
An ambitious filmmaker sets out to make an avant-garde film but soon learns the only way he can secu...
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Whisper Kill
Ambitious reporter, Liz Bartlett, secretly wishes that Jerry Caper, her business associate were dead...
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So You Want to Get Rich Quick
Joe comes up with a complicated scheme to bilk his dead uncle out of an inheritance....
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So You Want to Be on the Radio
Joe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfe...
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Once to Every Woman
At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, ...
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So You Want to Be a Plumber
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber....
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Jungle Drums of Africa
In Africa, a deceased medical missionary's daughter in Africa carries on her father's work. Before l...
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So You Never Tell a Lie
When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe M...
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So You Want to Be Pretty
In this comedic short, Joe and Alice McDoakes each wish their looks were better....
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So You Want to Be in Politics
Joe McDoakes becomes enmeshed in a corrupt political election....
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So You Want to Be Popular
Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox...
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Mrs. Lambert Remembers Love
Longtime singles Lillian Lambert and Clifford Pepperman enjoy a romance late in their lives....
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So You Want to Be a Paper Hanger
Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife....
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So You Want to Be a Cowboy
Joe McDoakes and his wife Alice attend a western movie and George soon has himself in the movie show...
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Kiss Shot
A struggling, single mom with a precocious young daughter also has an unpaid mortgage. She falls bac...
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Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, ...
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So You Think You Can't Sleep
Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia....
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U-238 and the Witch Doctor
America mining engineers seek to gain the mining rights for uranium from the African chief & his tri...
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