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Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter (born November 20, 1921) is an American actress. Phyllis Thaxter was born in Portland, Maine to Maine Supreme Court Justice Sidney Thaxter and his wife, a former actress. Phyllis worked on Broadway in the 1930s. In 1944, she signed a contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Her movie debut was opposite Van Johnson in the war-time film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. In 1948, she played a cattle owner's daughter alongside Barbara Bel Geddes in Blood on the Moon. At MGM, she routinely portrayed the ever-patient wife to a number of leading men. She moved to Warner Brothers in... MORE

Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter (born November 20, 1921) is an American actress. Phyllis Thaxter was born in Portland, Maine to Maine Supreme Court Justice Sidney Thaxter and his wife, a former actress. Phyllis worked on Broadway in the 1930s. In 1944, she signed a contract with Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Her movie debut was opposite Van Johnson in the war-time film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. In 1948, she played a cattle owner's daughter alongside Barbara Bel Geddes in Blood on the Moon. At MGM, she routinely portrayed the ever-patient wife to a number of leading men. She moved to Warner Brothers in the 1950s, but usually played the same type of roles. Thaxter's career stalled after an attack of infantile paralysis in 1952. She made a comeback in television series such as Wagon Train and Cannon, The Twilight Zone, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents. In 1978, Thaxter was cast along with Glenn Ford as Ma and Pa Kent in Superman. Author Patricia Bosworth, in her biography of Montgomery Clift, tells of Thaxter's close relationship with Clift in the early 1940s, writing that they "seemed so close that a great many people assumed they would eventually marry." While at MGM, Thaxter married James T. LESS