Margot Kidder
1948 - 2018
Melancholy Happy Trails go out today to actress Margot Kidder, who died yesterday at the age of 69.
Kidder came on the scene in the 1970's and made some pretty big movies - The Amityville Horror, The Great Waldo Pepper, and four Superman movies with Christopher Reeve. She seemed to drop off of the A-List not long after that, and she wasn't much heard from, by me at least, until her struggles with depression and mental illness put her back in the news in the mid-1990's.
It seemed that her final act was destined to be a sad one, and perhaps it was, but when I looked her up in IMDB this morning, I see that she had accumulated 135 acting credits over the years and continued to work steadily right up to the end. She shows forty film and television acting credits since the year 2000 alone, including a 2017 feature film release called "The Neighborhood". As I said, none of these credits represent anything approaching the level of fame of her Lois Lane days, but it seemed that in spite of whatever demons she faced she was able to work right up to the end of her life, and isn't that all that an actor really wants?
I always liked Margot Kidder and thought that she was quite sexy and attractive, as attested by a pretty spectacular photo spread in Playboy magazine back in her salad days. (I have chosen to keep The Grandstander family friendly, but you can find some of those photos on Google Images if you are so inclined.)
RIP Margot Kidder.
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