Meek and mild? George would have none of that. After all, this was a half-hour show and he was not going to risk his career being seen as a sissy for most of the episode. When George considered the role, he may have seen Superman as a way to showcase his own good natured qualities. An actor will tell you your next job depends on their current performance.  George may have known before anyone how similar he was to the character and he wasn’t going to disguise it as meek and mild.

As many would define, George’s Clark Kent and Superman were almost one and the same. For writing purposes, it’s actually a better reason why Lois Lane would always be suspicious of Clark being Superman. Why would she if Clark and Superman were so much different? To her credit, Lois wasn’t as dumb as people have come to define. Her intuitions were right, Clark was just better at fooling her. But George did a little more than keep Clark and Superman on an almost even playing field; he also injected himself into the role.  There is a good reason George is so closely identified with the role and the reason is because of how he carried himself.  For example; when Clark visits Ann Carson, the little blind girl in Around the World with Superman, the viewer is really seeing how George Reeves would have dealt with this situation.  He becomes synonymous with the role. George Reeves is Clark Kent. George Reeves is Superman. Or to raise it to another level, if Clark Kent & Superman existed, he would be very much like George Reeves.

In real life, George drove a Jaguar, an automobile very much like the Nash-Healey produced for the same market. So it seems natural George would want his Clark Kent to drive the type of car he himself would drive. What kind of person drove a Nash-Healey? I suspect the kind of person who would be comfortable with a vehicle of high speed.  An airline pilot or an astronaut. Since Clark Kent, as Superman flies, wouldn’t it stand to reason he’d be more comfortable in a car like the Nash-Healey? I think so.