RIP Margot Kidder

[johnnygobbs]

Still, to my mind, the definitive live-action Lois Lane.

[Catwoman]

Very sad. She fought a lot of demons in her life. Hope she's at peace now.

[thecolorsblend]

RIP, Margot.

[The Laughing Fish]

Gone at 69. RIP.

[Edd Grayson]

RIP. 

[The Laughing Fish]

I was thinking about Margot Kidder the other day and I learned her death was due to suicide. Poor woman had suffered a lot of mental health problems over the last few decades of her life. Such a terrible way to go. 

As Lois Lane, I thought she was fine in the role. Lois and Clark's relationship came across more of a fairy tale love story where, for better or worse, ended when Clark was putting her in harm's way both physically and emotionally. Lois had a knack for being a comic relief and could be very reckless and selfish sometimes. Nevertheless, Kidder was well suited to play her for that time between 1978 and 1980.

Putting all that aside, the other reason I'm posting in this thread is that I found these quotes in this interview from 2005, where she accuses Pierre Spengler of laundering money to fund the first two Superman films.

[At this point in the conversation the name of Pierre Spengler came up. Spengler was one of the producers of Richard Donner's SUPERMAN. Interviewer Phil van Tongeren once had a meeting at Spengler's house for a horror project he was working on with Brian Yuzna. Ms. Kidder wanted to know if Spengler lived in a big expensive house, which he did not. Then she told us Spengler's role in the production of SUPERMAN.]

He was the Salkind's flunky! There was Alexander and his son Ilya. And Pierre had the job of finding people to launder their money. Somebody should go out and find the real story of the making of SUPERMAN, because it was supposed to be truth, justice and the American way. Well, it was crooks! When we did the second movie Pierre brought me my contract and it just said: A Panamanian Corporation. Now in those days a lot of money got laundered through Panama. A lot of drug money and who knows what else. And they got some of the money from a fellow named Robert Vestco who had been indicted in the Nixon administration for embezzling a lot of money from the American government. Here was Warner Brothers trying to play on the up-and-up and they got these wild guys – Spengler and the Salkinds – and it was a battle.

https://www.flashbackfiles.com/margot-kidder-interview

It was pretty well publisiced that Kidder, along with Donner and others, had a falling out with the Salkinds and Spengler, so naturally all aggrieved parties will express their bitterness. But still, knowing Hollyweird is such a cesspool, it wouldn't surprise me if Kidder was telling the truth.