[3] She became a model and actress, and studied acting in Europe with Benno Schneider, a director in the Yiddish theater.

[1] Alexander portrayed newspaper reporter Lois Lane in the superhero radio program The Adventures of Superman for more than 1,600 episodes.

[7] Alexander additionally provided Lois Lane's voice in the 1940s Fleischer Studios/Paramount Pictures (Famous Studios) animated Superman shorts.

She reprised the role of Lois Lane for one season of the 1966 Filmation animated series The New Adventures of Superman.

The Stantons entertained at their Manhattan apartment on the Upper East Side and their home in East Hampton, New York; their daughter told The New York Times that author George Plimpton proposed to his future wife, Freddy Espy, at one party there, that composer Leonard Bernstein sometimes performed at the piano, and that comedy playwright Neil Simon wrote a sketch for the daughter's 21st birthday.