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A challenge. Can anyone identify the companies currently operating in GC, who works there and (ha!) what they produce? Bonus points if you could sketch out the last few years of company/employee history.

The tornado is certainly an eye grabbing event , but the real test is whether anything will come out of it. OUAT a big soap event like this lead to a death, an affair exposed, along held secret revealed, etc But nowadays they often just amount -oh that was a scary night-someone is injured but recovers etc. Hopefully this tornado wil have re-per-cussions.

Thanks @janea4old It's very brown. But fine as a temporary set.

NYACK, N. Y., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1969 Another recent cast change on “Another World" brought in Hugh Marlowe to take over the role of Jim Matthews. He succeeded Shepperd Strudwick, who withdrew to appear in the Arthur Miller drama, "The Price,” first on Broadway, then London and now on tour. Always interesting to know the reason for a recast.

@Liberty City Thanks for sharing, A street set, a proper hospital, extras- Today's Y&R would kill for that! But an empty Crimson Lights-some things never change...

A fun article. It was a very lucrative side hustle in those days. Maybe some of the older members recall some of these commercials? How many of those producys are still around? Patriot February 23. 1977, Page Fifteen Soap Opera Report By Bruce Joffe and Vickie Murphy Once you begin looking for soap stars in commercials, you will be amazed at the number of familiar faces you see. We have been. Since we last pointed out some commercials to look for, we have found several other soap favorites advertising their favorite products. Lee Warrick (Mary Ellen Dante, General Hospital) enhances her figure with the " Instead" bra by Playtex. Michael Zaslow (Roger Thorpe, Guiding Light) knows Excedrin is the thing to kill pain. Doris Belak (Anna Craig, One Life to Live) takes Nytol to help her sleep. Chris Lowe (Eric Heywood, Search for Tomorrow) sings for Campbell soup. Susan Sullivan (ex-Lenore Delaney, Another World)eats Campbell's Chunky Beef Soup. Dolph Sweet (Gil McGowan, Another World) is enchanted by this year's Chevrolet Chevelle. Jennifer Harmon (Cathy Lord, One Life to Live) soothes her sore throat with Aspergum. Lou Criscuolo (Danny Micelli. The Edge of Night) knows Sizzlean doesn't shrink like regular bacon. Augusta Dabney (ex-Caroline Chandler, General Hospital) uses Mazola No-Stick because it's a name you can trust. Peter White (Line Tyler, All My Children) uses Sure Roll-on to keep him dry. Maree Cheatha (Stephanie Pace, Search for Tomorrow ) enjoys Lipton Cup-of-Soup). Jacqueline Brookes( Beatnce Gordon Another World) knows Datril gets in your blood stream quicker. Fawne Harriman (ex-Ginger Cooper. Somerset) uses Jergens Hand Lotion to keep her hands soft. John Getz (ex Neil Johnson, Another World) takes Excedrin when he has a headache. David Bailey (Russ Matthews, Another World) is driving AMC cars these days. Jeffrey David Pomerantz (Dr Peter Janssen, One Life to ive) uses Chap-Stick, John Gabriel (Seneca Beaulac, Ryan's Hope) nows that diamonds should commemorate special occasions. Nancy Barrett (Dr Faith Coleridge, Ryan's Hope) takes Excedrin PM when a headache keeps her awake. When she feels a pang of hunger, Nancy eats Cheese Kisses. Lloyd Battista (Ray Slater Love of Life) drinks Riunite wine. Judith Barcroft (Anne Martin, All My Children) gives her children Contac Jr when they have colds. Barry Jenner (Evan Webster, Another World) takes Vick's Formula 44 for his cough. Mary Frann (Amanda Howard, Days of Our Lives) sent Hallmark cards at Christmas. Is that Tom Hallick (Brad Eliot. The Young and The Restless) sipping Harvey's Bristol Cream?

A new set! Messing up the timeline like this is ridiculous.

Dec 1974 synopsis Despite a bitter divorce several years ago, Dan and Susan Stewart's lives continue to cause conflict. The problem now, as in the past, is their daughter Emmy. Although the courts awarded Susan legal custody of Emmy, Dan is determined. to raise his daughter alone. Since Emmy has run away twice while living with Susan, Dan takes it upon himself to keep Emmy with him. Naturally Susan protested and had Dan served with a warrant. Luckily, Dan's lawyer, Grant Colman, was present and insisted he let his daughter go for now. Meanwhile a small child is being tossed from one parent to another. Susan states she loves Emmy but one must wonder if this is just a ploy to get Dan back. Dan, on the other hand, is a truly devoted father and wants only what is best for Emmy and is not about to give her up without a strong fight. While sharing breakfast with Susan, Mark Galloway appears surprised that Susan is planning to bring legal action against Dan. However, her plans may change now that she has been informed Dan is going to have the custody suit reopened. Grant receives a visit from Mark, who pleads with Grant to set up some sort of meeting between Dan and Susan. At first, he states he cares about the child's welfare, but it isn't long before Grant realizes he is thinking mainly about his future with Susan. He does tell Grant however, that he feels Susan may relent before this case goes to court, as he belleves she does not want the responsibility of raising a child. Knowing how vindictive Susan is, Grant informs Mark he will have to discuss this with Dan, and only he can make the final decision. As Mark leaves, he appears pleased but asks Grant never to let Susan know about their visit. When Grant discusses Mark's request with Dan, he is totally bewildered, but agrees, hoping Mark is correct. Susan's lawyer informs her about the proposed meeting, but before she makes a decision, she decides to talk it over with her good friend John Dixon. Assuming John will understand, Susan appears humiliated when he, who knew Susan when she didn't want any children, questions why she is letting this go so far when they both know she still loves Dan. Susan finally decides to go through with the meeting, but informs Mark she is ready for a long, hand fight. Kim Dixon, who wants to, help Dan in any way she possibly can, is thrilled with Betsy's invitation to her school's Christmas play. John, recuperating from surgery and feeling totally alone, questions Kim's sudden interest in Betsy Stewart. John has yet to learn that his attending physician and Kim are very good friends and that she has a special feeling for Dan's young niece. Betsy's play is a terrific success, and Dan takes she and Kim out for refreshments to celebrate. A woman stops by their table and tells Dan and Kim what an excellent actress their daughter is. As the woman departs, Betsy apologizes for her mistake and Kim is quick to tell Betsy that she would like nothing more than to have had her for a daughter However, the woman is only half wrong as Betsy is Dans real daughter, but perhaps she will never learn the truth for he feels she is much too young to understand. Kim stops by Lisa's bookstore to have lunch and finds her terribly upset over Ellen Stewart's recent visit. She confides in Kim that she feels Ellen was responsible for her and Grant's break-up. Kim tries to persuade Lisa to talk about Grant, however, saying she never wants to see or talk about Grant again. Joyce Colman, resuming her she job at Memorial Hospital, spots Grant and immediately begins discussing what a trouble maker Lisa is. Knowing Lisa and Grant will never resume their relationship, Joyce, trying désperately for the first time in her life to become independent, tells Chris Hughes she has rented an apartment. Chris, knowing how insecure she is, wonders how she is going to make it. Joyce tells him she firmly believes everything will work out. Could she possibly be thinking Grant will come back to her once he realizes how much she has changed.? Although the charges against her have been dropped, Natalie Bannon continues to pursue Tom Hughes, At a dinner celebrating her freedom, Natalie admits to Tom that she wants to be more than his ex-client. Tom, just learning about Carol's plans to obtain a divorcee from him, tells her that they are friends and although his future looks dim, he will call her soon. Nancy comes home and finds Chris extremely worried as Carol went to see him about recommending a divorce lawyer for her divorce from Tom. Nancy, refusing to mind her own business goes to see Carol in the hopes of getting her to change her mind about divorcing Tom. However, upon her arrival at the bookstore, she meets Jay Stallings who is currently dating Carol, and he is quick to put her grandson down for the pain he has caused Carol. Carol finally appears and tells Nancy that she is sorry, but she and Tom are hopeless and is determined to go through with the divorce. Bob, trying not to interfere, goes to see Tom and asks him to call Carol before this situation goes any further. They are interrupted by a visit from Natalie who senses Bob .doesn't like her. Tom assures her that Bob's coolness is just because he doesn't know her. However, if Tom and Carol's marriage breaks up, the Hughes' family will have only her to blame. Bob, feeling he got nowhere with Tom, visits Lisa. Lisa informs Bob that no one can talk two people out of anything once their minds are made up , but she often wishes someone would have tried in their case.

5 years later and I finally found a mention about True Story in an 1959 interview with Wes Kenney. Considering it lasted 4 years, that series truly flew under the radar, TRUE STORY —In a discussion of his "True Story" weekly half-hour, Kenney explained that many of his actors come from off-Broadway stage production!. He mentioned Carol Lawrence of "West Side Story*' and Dick Van Dyke, emcee of the "Laugh Line" panel show as actors in past shows. "We use a cast of four to seven players a week," he said. The cast rehearses on Thursday, Friday and Saturday and puts the show on tape on Sunday for the following Saturday's "True Story" episode of personal conflict." Kenney said he is interested in scripts from free lance writers and pays $800 per script, a little over scale for a half-hour TV story.

COURIER-EXPRESS WEEK OF DEC. 21 to DEC. 27 1980 Jean Simmons joins prime-time soaper By JERRY BUCK LOS ANGELES (AP) After 37 years as an actress, Jean Simmons has agreed to star in her first television series. Miss Simmons, star of more than a score of movies here and in her native England, and a nominee for an Academy Award for her performance in The Happy Ending, finally said yes to “Golden Gate.” A two-hour pilot movie has just been completed and will be broadcast early next year by ABC. MISS SIMMONS stars as the matron of an aristocratic San Francisco publishing family in this proposed primetime soap opera in the mold of “Dallas.” The pilot show tells the story of the Kingsleys, played by Richard Kiley and Miss Simmons, owners of the fictional San Francisco Bulletin, and their two children, Perry King and Mary Crosby, who was Kristin, the woman who shot J.R. on “Dallas.” Miss Simmons said she and executive producer Lin Bolen had a certain unnamed grande dame of publishing in mind as the model for Jane Spencer Kingsley. “I’VE NEVER DONE a series before so I don’t know what to expect,” Miss Simmons said in an interview in her Santa Monica home. “I would hope that my character would sort of pop in and out.” She said she’s never purposely avoided a TV series. “I’ve never really thought about it. But as I get on in life I find the less I want to work. I’d like to do a lot of traveling.” Her role in the film frequently calls for her to be an intermediary between her husband and son, who are at sword’s point. “THERE’S A RIFT in the family,” she said, “mainly because of the son’s love for his mother and the way the father treats her.“We did a lot of kidding on the set about how we could get Richard to sing. (Kiley was Broadway’s “Man of La Mancha.”) He only sings in the shower in the movie, and when I don’t hear him I discover that he’s had a stroke.” Miss Simmons formerly was married to writer-director Richard Brooks, and has two daughters, Tracy and Kate, named after Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. She starred with Tracy in The Actress. “I WAS BORN within the sound of the Bow Bells in London,” she said. “That makes me a real Cockney. I grew up with a Cockney accent. When the Rank Organization put me under contract I had to talk like a lady. We had to take elocution lessons. “Michael Caine broke the rules in Alfie. He was a hero with a Cockney accent. Things became much better after that.” HER FIRST MOVIE was Give Us the Moon, and her first American movie was Androcles and the Lion, for Howard Hughes. “Howard Hughes bought my contract,” she said. “I woke up one morning and found myself working for Hughes. I’d met him earlier and found him to be very nice.” She said she considers Elmer Gantry to be her favorite movie, but she said she also particularly likes The Actress. While filming Gantry, she and Brooks fell in love and marfried.- they are now divorced. ANOTHER MAJOR MOVIE was Spartacus, during which she said she learned the art of patience from Sir Laurence Olivier. “I worked in that film with Peter Ustinov,” she said “He was difficult to work with — because he was so brilliant and so funny. He always had some witticism and before each scene I’d have to dig my nails into my hands to keep from laughing.” Simmons’ television projects include the mini-series “Beggarman, Thief” and “The Dane Curse.”

A bridge too far for soaps in the 70's I think. There was a flirtation with older women/younger men Dale/Ellen Somerset Dennis/Elena Another World Mark/Ellen All My Children Mike/Linda DOOL Eleanor/Luke TD

LYDIA BRUCE RADIO Romance of Helen Trent Right to Happiness TELEVISION Love of Life

More OLTL from that era. August 1977 NEW YORK — After auditioning and testing more than 300 actors on both coasts since mid-April. “One Life to Lave” has finally cast a replacement for George Reinholt in the role of Tony Lord. The character of Tony is an integral part of a story triangle involving his true love. Pat, and her "returned-from-the dead” husband. Paul. “We decided it would be disastrous to try and find someone who looks, sounds and acts like George.” “OLTL” producer Joe Stuart says. "We chose to find someone that would be a physical contrast to Paul, as well as someone in his early 30s As you know. Jacquie Courtney is 30 years old. But we felt that when she played opposite George, the audience thought of them as a couple in their late 30s. So the new Tony will help the story into a younger emphasis. And we’re very pleased with our choice of Philip MacHale.” MacHALE WAS. SEEN briefly last year as the last of numerous David Martins on the canceled “Somerset.” Stuart predicts that Philip’s portrayal of Tony will be “different than George’s. It won't be as caustic.” “Different chemistry” was also needed for the role of Will Vernon. Bernie McInerney, who replaced the original Will, Farley Granger, has been “gonged” and will be replaced by Anthony George beginning Aug. 25. Tony was last seen two years ago in the popular role of TonyVincente on “Search for Tomorrow." Although Stuart says Bernie was an excellent actor, "the story line has undergone an organic evolution and we hope to get more mileage out of Tony’s characterization as Will.’’ Whatever that means. MEANWHILE, contract renewal negotiations with Doris Belack (Anna Craig1 came to a standstill. "I asked for a clause that would enable me to be out for additional theater work. They didn’t want to give it to me, so I left,” says Doris, who was a 9-year original cast member of “OLTL.” “I couldn’t stay on the serial without the opportunity to do theater work also. They apparently failed to understand that an actor needs a change of stimulus to keep his work fresh.” Doris has consistently given a fresh, warm, humorous quality to a tent-pole character who's purpose was to rehash other people’s story lines for the audience. Her shoes will be difficult to fill. "I probably would have gone into deep depression if I hadn’t gone immediately into rehearsals for a stage production.” sighs the actress. MISS BELACK will be appearing in “Plaza Suite” at the QCC Theater Company o f Queensboro Community College in Bayside, N.Y., through Aug. 21. The theater’s artistic director is Doris’ former “OLTL” castmate. Jordan Charney (Vince Wolek,1. and the director of the production is her husband. Broadway producer Philip (“Shenandoah”) Rose. How does Doris succeed in working for her husband? “I trust his judgement completely.” she answers. ‘Occasionally we scream and yell, but we don’t take our work problems home with u s. Anyway, he knows me better than I know me. But I still have to live with the whispers that I got the part because I sleep with the director, which I’m proud to say I do.'.” Doris met her husband during a Gilbert and Sullivan musical many years ago. “We don't need to mention how many years ago, but I was the soprano and he was the baritone. We’ve been making beautiful music together ever since,” she laughs. But will the “OLTL” audience sing the praises of the show's recent changes? Oct 78 But it will be interesting to watch what will happen in terms of audience reaction in the next few weeks on at least one ABC soap opera, “One Life to Live.”One of the long accepted ruled ot soap-operaland is that audiences become as hooked on actors and characters as much as they become hooked on storylines. On “One Life” there will be a near glut of performer replacements and exits. JULIE Montgomery has already left the show as Samantha Vernon. Kathleen Devine, an excellent actress who was generally wasted in storyline limbo during her tenure on “OLTL,” has been killed off as Pam Shepherd, just prior to her wedding to pychiatrist Will Vernon. Kathleen Maguire, as Anna Craig, didn’t registger positively with fans who were anguished that the original Anna, Doris Belack, departed the cast a year ago. The producers are scurrying to find yet another replacement in the role. First, he was called D. Bill Reilly, then he changed his name to David Reilly. Recently, on cast credits, he was given a third name, Luke Reilly. Under any name, the actor who played the role of Richard Abbott insists he’s leaving the cast of “OLTL” within the next several weeks. REILLY WAS a fan favorite, but the biggest cast departure blow to “OLTL” viewers will be the absence of Kathy Glass in the role of Jenny Wolek Siegel Vernon.

BUFFALO COURIER-EXPRESS. Sunday, September 23 1980 THEIR SECRET LOVE’S no secret anymore. John Wesley Shipp and Marsha Clark (Kelly and Hillary on ‘Guiding Light’) kept their off-screen romance under wraps but have now 'gone public.* since they've been paired for personal appearances to promote *GL.’ While they were guests at a country fair festival in Altoona, Pa., they were swamped by adoring fans who got them to admit their screen romance had transferred off the set. The smell of lavender in the air...let face it -Marsha Clark was always the butch Bauer and JWS keeps his private life closely guarded so...

I dislike that oversell eg Oh Diane, you were an inspiration -such a fabulous model. Andre-Jabot has tried to work you with you for years. Why does everything have to be world famous and super successful? So characters can praise each other? In what universe would a guy like Andre be in anyway jealous of Devon??