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Movie actress Phyllis Thaxter (born Phyllis St.
Felix Thaxter November 20, 1921 in Portland,
Maine) was the daughter of Maine Supreme Court
Justice Sidney Thaxter and her mother a one-time
Shakespearean actress.  Thaxter, taking after her
mother, worked as a Broadway actress in the 1930s
and eventually signed an MGM contract in 1944. 
While at MGM, Phyllis married James Aubrey, who
later became president of CBS-TV.  They divorced
in 1962.  While at MGM, she usually played the
ever-patient wife to a number of leading men,
including Robert Ryan in Act of Violence (1948). 
One of her more memorable roles was also in 1948,
playing a cattle owners daughter alongside Barbara
Bel Geddes in Blood on the Moon (1948).  She
changed studios, moving to Warner Brothers, in the
1950s but usually played the same time of roles.

Thaxter career stalled after an attack of
infantile paralysis, while visiting her family in
Portland, in 1952.  She, however, made a slow
comeback in character parts in television, movies
and the stage. In 1978, Phyllis Thaxter was cast
along with Glenn Ford as Ma and Pa Kent in
Superman: The Movie.