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More significant, it was time for Superman to move on from radio and comics and enter a new medium, time for a mere mortal to impersonate the man of steel on the screen. Kirk Alyn, an agile dancer, began appearing in Saturday serials in 1948, letting his voice drop by an octave each time he reached for his necktie and declared, "This looks like a job for Superman...
...somehow beneath his dignity. He also disliked the need to diet for the role. He once referred to his heroic tights and cape as a "monkey suit." After growing famous as Superman, Reeves encountered great difficulty in finding work as anything else (the same problem ended the careers of Alyn and Noel Neill, who played a perky Lois Lane in both the serial and TV show). When ; he did get a minor part in From Here to Eternity, the preview audience guffawed. "Every time he appeared, they yelled again and again," says one witness, Jack Larson, who played Jimmy Olsen...
...Hollywood's technology was still so rudimentary that when Alyn lifted his arms and cried, "Up, up and away!" only a spliced-in animated cartoon could show Superman in flight. "When I was Superman, I did it with my attitude," recalls Alyn, now 77. "In my mind, I'd visualized the guy I had heard on the radio. This was a guy nothing could stop. So that's why I stood like this, with my chest out, and a look on my face saying 'Shoot me.' " To demonstrate, the old man rises from his easy chair and adopts the Pose...
Ever since he started going out with women, Tom Horsley, 40, a certified public accountant from Campbell, Calif, has been plagued by broken dates. Last month Horsley decided that he had had enough: he filed suit in San Francisco Small Claims Court against Waitress Alyn Chesselet, 31, for standing...
...sordid cave where her father has already been incarcerated by a tribe of lecherous Arabians. A little ape tells Tarzan about this dastardly development. He rescues Mary first, then goes to aid her father and two other members of the party. The picture leaves Dr. Brooks (E. Alyn Warren) in danger on the ground. Tarzan, blubbering to Mary in his tree house, will have to save him in the next installment...