Phyllis Coates Trailers
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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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19 March 1953
On an African safari with his friend Grant, Clyde Beatty plans to buy some black-maned Numbian lions from Jo Carter but her animals are wiped out by a fire.
10 November 1951
In this comedic short, Joe McDoakes decides he should become a plumber.
01 July 1950
Fed up with Joe's indifference toward her, Alice McDoakes takes her troubles to a marriage counselor.
08 November 1952
It's a dangerous hypnotic suggestion when a psychiatrist tells married couple Joe and Alice McDoakes to switch points of view during a session.
01 January 1952
Terrorized citizens send for a Texas lawman to rid their town of bandits.
31 October 1953
Average working man Joe McDoakes tries desperate measures to cure his chronic insomnia.
12 March 1949
Joe McDoakes takes advice on how to be more likeable from his only friend Homer Hotbox
02 July 1949
Joe wants to be a muscle man.
09 November 1952
When newcomers Whip and Bob break up a saloon fight they are made town Marshals. This puts then in the middle of the range war between large ranch owner Howard and the small ranchers.
03 January 1955
Jean Evans of an international wildlife foundation, who is known to Africa as 'the Panther Girl' because of her bravery in jungle living, stumbles on a plot by a mad scientist to frighten the natives out of a diamond-laden district by chemically growing crayfish to giant size, and enlists the aid of a game hunter friend to prevent a monster rampage and bring the culprits to justice.
02 June 1951
Joe McDoakes, ever obliging and always helpful, volunteers to hang the new wallpaper for his wife.
14 July 1956
Joe McDoakes' wife Alice wants to return to work to add income to the household. Joe would rather she stay at home to tend to domestic duties.
23 May 1953
Joe and Alice buy a television set and, due to some excuse, or another, the neighbors begin to drop in, stay to watch television, and raid their refrigerator.
29 October 1950
The Bowery Boys open a nightclub after Sach has his tonsils out and wakes up with a singing voice.
01 February 1953
Banker Mason is after the ranchers land so he can resell it to the railroad for a profit. He has the railroad agent killed and replaces him with his stooge who then offers even less than Mason.
14 April 1951
Joe McDoakes and his wife Alice attend a western movie and George soon has himself in the movie showr
01 April 1958
After serving a five year prison sentence for allowing his men to destroy a town in a drunken spree, a trail boss is hired by the same town's leading citizen to drive their cattle to Fort Clemson.
05 February 2002
The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.
19 August 1950
Joe plans on moving but needs tips on how.
28 October 1949
Joe comes up with a complicated scheme to bilk his dead uncle out of an inheritance.
23 September 1950
Joe McDoakes asks for a raise and is informed by his boss that the employee selected by him to run the office while he is on vacation will get a raise.
12 May 1991
Longtime singles Lillian Lambert and Clifford Pepperman enjoy a romance late in their lives.
12 March 1951
A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for production, meeting with the writer and producer, approving wardrobe and set design, rehearsing scenes with the actors and camera crew, shooting the scenes, watching dailies, working with the editor and composer, and attending the first preview.
15 September 1950
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby.
22 August 1949
Joe's in-laws come over, and they suck.
09 October 1948
A society woman gets involved with a gangster only to find he has hidden plans.
10 December 1952
A group of American witness the deadly invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union.
01 December 1989
The supposed story of superstar Marilyn Monroe's death...as told by a "friend" of hers. Watch flashbacks from "Goodbye Norma Jean" as it leads up to the night when Marilyn Monroe died.
18 August 1951
Johnny Mack Brown goes up against a lady bank robber in this average Mack Brown series late-entry from Monogram.
22 September 1951
"I never knew what happiness was till I got married—and then it was too late," Joe recalls, flashing back to bachelor days and his courtship with Alice.
10 December 1950
Monogram's Outlaws of Texas is surprisingly bereft of the action highlights one might expect from star Whip Wilson.
06 September 1953
The cattle that are being rustled apparently vanish as no one is able to find them. But Rocky Lane, in his last B western, is on the job and he is assisted as usual by Nugget Clark.
11 March 1951
Someone stole Johnny Mack Brown's horse. If he can locate his missing horse, then he can prove they are also robbing the stagecoach.
01 January 1952
Three masked bandits responsible for a wave of holdups and bank robberies stick up a stagecoach on its way to Boone City.
23 November 1951
Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well.
21 January 1953
In Africa, a deceased medical missionary's daughter in Africa carries on her father's work. Before long, she finds herself in danger from crooks and a local witch doctor.
31 March 1958
Phyllis Coates, TV's erstwhile Lois Lane, essays one of her largest film roles in Blood Arrow. Coates is cast as a devout Mormon girl whose mission is to transport smallpox vaccine to her friends and neighbors.
14 April 1954
Constable Ward is assigned to track down a mysterious villain known only as The Leader. Trying to locate a secret gold mine, The Leader pits the Indians against the Mounties, whom he blames for creating trouble.
08 January 1949
Joe McDoakes does NOT want to be a baby sitter.
26 October 1952
A rock hard commander trains Navy Carrier Pilots during the Second World War
07 June 1952
Joe has to find a way to go to a convention.
01 March 1956
At a particularly vulnerable time in her life, Carol is wooed by charming David. They fall in love, but Carol then learns that David is married.
05 May 1956
Alice neglects her housework because she is enthralled with the long-haired piano player, Gregor Flatorsharpsky, next door.
01 January 1996
An ambitious filmmaker sets out to make an avant-garde film but soon learns the only way he can secure financing is if he shows Jessica Hahn's breasts.
13 February 2021
A comprehensive story of Hollywood's horror and science fiction films of the 1950s, told by the people who made them.
23 November 1957
Professor Frankenstein creates a teenager from an accident victim, who gets angry when he learns he is going to be taken apart.
02 October 1948
Joe McDoakes becomes enmeshed in a corrupt political election.
02 August 1952
When a wristwatch intended for a office contest winner gets mixed up and confused with the one Joe McDoakes purchased for his wife, Joe once again finds himself on the short end.
02 April 2002
illustrates how directors pushed boundaries and altered the art of filmmaking during the turbulent, swinging 1960s.
30 December 1951
Whip Wilson has to stop bandits who are trying to take over a stage line.
09 August 1953
Bill Elliot emulates his idol William S. Hart in the superior western Topeka. Elliot plays the archetypal Good Bad Man, hired to kick the crooked element out of a small town.
11 April 1989
A struggling, single mom with a precocious young daughter also has an unpaid mortgage. She falls back on her pool-playing skills to pay off her debts.
06 November 1948
Joe McDoakes and his wife love to participate in radio show contests, but something seems to interfere every time they are lucky enough to be chosen as participants.
30 August 1957
In the Windy City, the mob infiltrates a powerful union.
18 November 1959
Four adventurers descend to the bottom of the sea. When their surface tether snaps, they find themselves marooned in a network of underwater caverns.
01 July 1956
An inmate is persuaded to take part in a prison break by cellmates anxious to cash in on loot they believe she has hidden.
01 October 1970
Tish Gray had a baby and gave it up for adoption. She is contacted by a second childless couple who want her to have the husband's baby because of the wife's inability to have children.
19 December 1953
Thinking he may inherit a million dollars from his dying grandmother, Joe McDoakes finds himself the target of murderously greedy family members.
12 October 1952
A mysterious masked rider and his gang are murdering ranchers and robbing stages. Government Agent Johnny Mack Brown has been called in to help the Sheriff.
27 May 1951
The "badmen" of the title in this average western from Monogram are Waller, a greedy express agent and Banker Jensen, who conspire to separate Bob Bannon from the gold found on his property.
