Judy Nugent, the former ’50s child actor who co-starred with Jane Wyman in Magnificent Obsession, Annette Funicello in the popular Annette serial on ABC’s The Mickey Mouse Club, and flew in the arms of George Reeves’ Superman in a 1954 episode Adventures of Superman, died of cancer Thursday, Oct.
26, surrounded by family at her ranch in Montana. She was 83. Her death was announced in a family statement released by daughter-in-law Anne Lockhart, the Chicago Fire actor and daughter of June Lockhart (Lost in Space).
A Los Angeles native – she was the daughter of MGM prop man Carl Nugent – Nugent had already appeared in a handful of uncredited roles, including in the 1951 film Angels in the Outfield, when she landed her breakthrough role as Donna Ruggles in the 1949-52 TV series The Ruggles, an early family sitcom starring comic actor Charles Ruggles (Bringing Up Baby).
Nugent played the twin sister of child actor Jimmy Hawkins (It’s A Wonderful Life). After the cancelation of The Ruggles, Nugent landed guest shots on The Lone Ranger, in the film Ma and Pa Kettle At Home, and, in perhaps the role most fondly remembered by Baby Boomers, as Ann Carson, a blind girl who enters a Daily Planet contest to fly around the world with Superman in the 1954 Season 2 episode of Adventures of Superman. (Her eyesight is restored after Clark Kent/Superman uses his super vision to detect the cause of her blindness.) That same year she appeared in Magnificent Obsession and on the TV series The Life of Riley.
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