Thaxter biography
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Phyllis Thaxter
American actress (1919–2012)
Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter (November 20, 1919 – August 14, 2012)[1][2] was an American actress.
She is best known for portraying Ellen Lawson in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) and Martha "Ma" Kent in Superman (1978).
Thaxter biography
She also appeared in Bewitched (1945), Blood on the Moon (1948), and The World of Henry Orient (1964).
Early life
Thaxter was born in Portland, Maine, the youngest of three children of Phyllis (néeSchuyler) Thaxter, former actress, and future Maine Supreme Court justice Sidney St.
Felix Thaxter;[2] her siblings were brother, Sidney W. Thaxter, and sister, Hildegarde Schuyler Thaxter (later the wife of federal judge Edward Thaxter Gignoux).[3][4][5] Her grandfather was Major Sidney W.
Thaxter, who was awarded the Medal of Honor during the American Civil War.[6]
Career
Before appearing in films, Thaxter was on the stage. When Dorothy