# Margot Kidder dead at 69 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [May 14, 2018, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margot-kidder-dead-at-69/814146 "2018-05-14T17:20:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margot-kidder-dead-at-69/814146/41 "2018-08-09T18:46:46Z")
> [@Jim\_s\_Son](#): > > A nut job who smeared our troops I’m sorry I do not recall when Ms. Kidder smeared Canadian troops. Can you please describe the situation? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margot-kidder-dead-at-69/814146/42 "2018-08-09T18:52:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > That’s funny, I don’t remember any troop-smearing in the 1978 movie. But there surely must have been, or you wouldn’t be bringing it up. I found this mention in [Kidder’s Wikipedia entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margot_Kidder#Political_activism); it refers to an incident with which I was unaware: > [@](#): > > In the early 1990s, during the first Gulf War, Kidder was branded a “Baghdad Betty” and subjected to abuse for her remarks questioning the war. In a piece called “Confessions of ‘Baghdad Betty’”, styled as a letter to her mother and printed in The Nation, Kidder responded by explaining and defending her statements. That said, it should be noted that it occurred several years **after** her final appearance as Lois Lane. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margot-kidder-dead-at-69/814146/43 "2018-08-09T18:57:00Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I’m sorry I do not recall when Ms. Kidder smeared Canadian troops. Can you please describe the situation? It was with maple syrup. She had a kinky side. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margot-kidder-dead-at-69/814146/44 "2018-08-09T19:11:05Z")
I follow her nephew, Orion, on Twitter. He came to my attention when he told certain … celebrities to keep her name out of their mouths when they were commenting on her death. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margot-kidder-dead-at-69/814146/45 "2018-08-09T19:35:53Z")
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margot-kidder-dead-at-69/814146/46 "2018-08-09T20:52:14Z")
It’s been reported Kidder had recently allowed addicts in the house. They were taking advantage of her, stealing her medicine, cooking meth in the house. I imagine that situation increased her anxiety and may have contributed to her suicide. 40 calls to the police. It must of been miserable living in that house. ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margot-kidder-dead-at-69/814146/47 "2018-08-09T21:31:02Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Here she is with James Garner in the TV series _ **Nichols** _, 1971 (age 23). My God, she was gorgeous! :o > > [https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/190/1384340532\_4.jpg](https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/images/reviews/190/1384340532_4.jpg) Yeah, she was. Anyone else remember _Sisters_? ---
**Author:** ![Patch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a183cd/32.png) [@Patch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patch)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margot-kidder-dead-at-69/814146/48 "2018-08-09T23:05:11Z")
I just watched the Banacek episode, _A Million the Hard Way_, where she played a photographer. I liked her in that role a lot more than her role in the Superman films. I always found her grating in those and didn’t care for her at all. Now that I’ve recognized her in that role and she did really well, I’m giving her a rethink. Thinking about it now I can’t recall what, if anything, else I’ve seen her in, but I would certainly like to check out her other roles. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2018, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margot-kidder-dead-at-69/814146/49 "2018-08-10T00:21:28Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I’m sorry I do not recall when Ms. Kidder smeared **Canadian troops**. Can you please describe the situation? All 5 of them? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/margot-kidder-dead-at-69/814146.md?page=2)