Heroine of the Month: Lois Collier
Lois Collier actually began her career as Madelyn Earle where she played in low budget films like Women Must Dress (1935). Leaving film momentarily for radio, she played a character named Lois Collier on Hollywood in Person. Deciding that name was more marquee friendly than her own, she took it as her stage name when she returned to film in 1938 with A Desperate Adventure.
She became a regular at Republic appearing in several Three Mesquisteers films like Outlaws of Cherokee Trail (1941), Riders of the Range (1942) and Westward Ho! (1942). Moving to Universal she appeared in such horror films as Jungle Woman (1944) and Weird Woman (1944). Around this time she also starred in her first serial Jungle Queen (1946) playing a British Secret Service agent fighting Nazis in the African jungle and helped by the supernatural title character.
She spent the rest of the decade appearing such films as The Naughty Nineties (1945), The Marx Brothers’ A Night in Casablanca (1946) and Out of the Storm (1948). Her second and final serial was Republic’s Flying Discman From Mars (1951) helping hero Walter Reed stop a Martian invasion. She next enjoyed a short run as Mary Westley on the TV show Boston Blackie (1951-53). Collier decided to retire from acting after the show left the air.
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