{"id":22084,"date":"2012-08-18T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T22:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=22084"},"modified":"2012-08-21T09:03:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T23:33:08","slug":"vale-phyllis-thaxter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2012\/08\/18\/vale-phyllis-thaxter\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Phyllis Thaxter"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22086\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22086\" style=\"width: 311px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-22086\" title=\"Phyllis Thaxter (1944)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1-311x415-custom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"415\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22086\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phyllis Thaxter &#8211; 1919-2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The woman who essayed Clark Kent&#8217;s mother in Richard Donner&#8217;s seminal comic-book flick <em>Superman: The Movie<\/em>, has passed away. Phyllis Thaxter, who portrayed Martha Kent opposite Glenn Ford&#8217;s portrayal of Clark&#8217;s adoptive human father Jonathan, trod the boards on Broadway during the 30&#8217;s before snagging a contract with MGM in the mid-40&#8217;s. Her first big-screen role came in <em>Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo<\/em>, released in 1944, and she went on to portray the solid female lead in a number of projects including <em>The Sea Of Grass, Blood On The Moon, Wagon Train<\/em> and <em>The World of Henry Orient<\/em>. Struck down with poliomyelitis in the 50&#8217;s, Thaxter&#8217;s career stalled, before she returned to prominence in television and several films, including <em>Superman<\/em>. Among her television appearances came episodes of <em>Rawhide, The Twilight Zone<\/em> and <em>Alfred Hitchcock Presents<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms Thaxter passed away on August 14th, after a lengthy battle with Alzheimers. She was 92.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_22087\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22087\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22087\" title=\"17012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/17012.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/17012.gif 320w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/17012-300x225.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phyllis Thaxter as she appeared in Superman: The Movie (1978)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The woman who essayed Clark Kent&#8217;s mother in Richard Donner&#8217;s seminal comic-book flick Superman: The Movie, has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":22086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1.jpg",540,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1-500x280.jpg",500,280,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1-540x365.jpg",540,365,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1.jpg",540,720,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1.jpg",540,720,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1.jpg",540,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1.jpg",540,720,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1.jpg",540,720,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1.jpg",255,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phyllis-thaxter-1-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}