RIP Valerie Perrine

[Bob Juch]

https://www.nydailynews.com/2026/03/23/ ... -superman/

“Superman” actor Valerie Perrine has died. She was 82.

Filmmaker Stacey Souther confirmed his friend’s death in a Monday Instagram post that links to a fundraising page to afford the performer “the farewell she deserves.”

Perrine was perhaps best known for her role as Lex Luthor’s personal assistant Eve Teschmacher in 1978’s “Superman” and its 1980 sequel “Superman II.”

According to Souther — who made a 2016 documentary about Perrine called “Valerie” — she battled Parkinson’s disease for 15 years before dying in her Los Angeles home “surrounded by love.”

“She was a serious actress who happened to possess the beauty of a goddess — and Hollywood rarely knew quite what to do with that combination. But audiences always did. They loved her without reservation,” Souther wrote.

[Bob Juch]

I remember her from Slaughterhouse-Five, Lenny, W.C. Fields and Me, and The Electric Horseman, in addition to the Superman films.

[Vandal]

If you look north on this map from Superman, you’ll see the area marked as Teschmacher Peaks. Nice.

[Vandal]

Interesting Wiki tidbit about Perrine:

While living in Las Vegas, Perrine became engaged to gun collector and importer Bill Haarman, who died in January 1969 from an accidental gunshot wound to the lung, one month before their planned wedding.[3]

After his death, Perrine began a relationship with hairstylist Jay Sebring. On August 8, 1969, he invited her to a dinner party with his former girlfriend, actress Sharon Tate, and their friends Abigail Folger and Wojciech Frykowski at the El Coyote Cafe in Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles, but she was unable to attend. Shortly after midnight on August 9, all four were murdered by members of the Manson Family at Tate's home.[3]

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a performer at the now‑demolished Stardust joked, 'If you don’t like somebody, fix them up with Valerie and he’ll be dead within three months."[3]