How Lois Lane star Margot Kidder fell victim to ‘Curse of Superman’

She was missing for four days and was discovered dirty, shoe -free and incoherent in a Glendale -Jachtertuin. Several of her teeth were removed – pulled out by Kidder herself, in a psychotic episode.

She later said she did it so that she could not be followed through dental records.

“I was like one of those ladies you see shouting against the alien beings on the street corner,” she said. “There were days when I just wanted to die.”

It was a distant fall for the woman once praised as the best -paid Canadian actress of her generation. Kidder had become an icon after her performance opposite Reeve, giving Superman His emotional core as the courageous Daily Planet Reporter.

But fame came quickly and never sat with her easily. “Fame is weird, is what it is real,” she once said. “It is the weirdest in the world.”

Born in 1948 in Yellowknife, in the remote Northwest territories of Canada, the father of Kidder was a mining engineer, her mother, a history teacher. A trip to New York at the age of 12, where she saw Bye bye Birdie On Broadway, her desire for a different life led.

“That was it. I knew I had to go far away,” she said later.

She became part of a freewheeling, drug-driven Hollywood scene in the early 1970s and shared a house with actress Jennifer Salt.

The house became a refuge for rising talents, including Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg and Brian de Palma, who threw her Sisters.