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The Frank (1 & 2) and Mary (1) relationship was not what it used to be by the time DHK Frank and Mary 2 & 3 & 4 were around. At that point they started building up the Frank and Jack relationship, so when Frank go over the Fenelli apartment, since Mary was rarely ever home, they stated having Frank talk over his problems with Jack more than Mary.

Frank/Jill/ Seneca During the early years of the show producer Robert Costello said that the show was about the Ryan family -- so any romantic relationships had to have a connection to the Ryans'. Maybe they could have made it a quadrangle with Mary Ryan/ Jack/ Jill/ Seneca instead of the Frank Ryan/Jill/Seneca triangle. I was always surprised when I watched the beginning again that Jill was a lonely woman while Mary, Nell, and Faith had plenty of male interest in them. (Mary had Jack, Bob, even a brief interest by Roger, Sam Crowell. Nell had Seneca, Ed, Roger. Faith had Bucky, Pat, Kenneth, and even when Faith was held in the basement, others had dialog about an unseen hospital delivery guy who had a crush on her.) Jill & Frank Nancy said that the writers and the audience wouldn’t let them be apart. She sounded fine about this in 1983-- even saying that she felt they owed the audience a big wedding (which the viewers never got, just a small hospital wedding which wasn't legal and an off-screen legal wedding where it was just the two of them). By the final time they reunited Jill and Frank -- Nancy said she was then backburned for over the last year of her run. This was why she decided to leave the show and give Hollywood a shot. Does anyone know how Nancy felt about Ken George Jones? During the 1976/1977 pregnancy story and keeping the baby's true paternity secret ( who Jill mistakenly believed was the father of her baby)-- this story bothered Nancy so much that she went to the writers to tell them that Jill wouldn't be deceiving Frank or Seneca. I always thought Nancy believed Jill was woman of integrity -- so I wondered how she felt about deceiving Frank during the KGJ affair. As bad as Michael Hawkins was as Frank, he did have his fans, though. There were letters printed in magazines where people wrote in upset that he was replaced. Andrew Robinson said one the reasons he finally agreed to take the role of Frank was that, after playing mainly “bad guys” for his career, he wanted to play a “good guy” for a change and he said the writers told him that the audience rooted for Frank.

Also in the 11/14 Elementary episode, Casey Biggs (Fenno, Ryan's Hope, 1989) had a small role as Alan Becker

Delia was also off screen from mid-fall 1983 (the firing of Ilene ) through mid-June 1984 (and the return of Delia played by Robin Mattson). Ryan's Hope messed with their own timeline by SORASing Johnno into a 19 year old with a baby and having dialog that said Frank was the same age!! when he (Frank) became a father. That would have made Delia – according to early RH years “facts” - - giving birth to Little John at 14 -- after having married Frank at age 9.

Jenny Rebecca Dweir (now Jenny Hecht ) (Ryan Fenelli 1980-1984 on Ryan's Hope) is an intervention specialist at a high school in Boulder Colorado. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By2U_UcFoMk Faith Catlin (Faith #1 on Ryan's Hope) as Secretary Locke in this 2013 short film Dead Drop - 48 Hour. The man she phones is her RL husband John Griesemer. She and her husband were also involved in the production of the film. Faith is seen beginning at approx. 2:05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Oq5RA0s4o

No -- but I will. Thanks!

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Jenny Rebecca Dweir (now Jenny Hecht ) (Ryan Fenelli 1980-1984) is an intervention specialist at a high school in Boulder Colorado. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By2U_UcFoMk

I never knew anything about Megan McCraken's (Nancy #2) family -- it turns out that her parents -- Ellen Humphrey (now Siewers) and Richard McCracken-- were actors and writers. Her mother wrote for one of the first television soap operas, A Woman to Remember. http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2013/jun/20/super-seniors-recall-fascinating-adventures/?print=1

Yes, her daughter Madison. She was born in December of 1993. I found this in Variety. http://variety.com/1994/scene/people-news/births-120-117259/ Randall also has a son, Jake De Ronde, who was born a few years later.

Recent photo of Randall Edwards (Delia #3) with her daughter Madison DeRonde at Conejo Creek Park in Thousand Oaks, California in April 2013. http://www.thelighthousenews.com/photos/2013/apr/14/271982/?enlarge=0

It was interesting to learn the actors had a meeting, while Catherine was still there, and they had concerns about the show becoming too filled with despair, She said the writers agreed with how the actors felt-- but I don't think there was that much uplifting about rest of 1978 except for maybe Frank wininng the Senate seat, and to a lesser extent, Delia attempting to grow up. There was Edmund's illness, Frank and the Ryan's hiding Edmund's paternity, Faith's knife accident and the return of Faith to the Perils of Pauline storylines, etc.

Catherine Hicks' (Faith #3) post-RH comments from April 1978 This was conducted during Tribute's first stop on it's pre-Broadway run in Boston

I guess Grant Show got the part. I looked up the show and also in the cast were soap actors - John Bolger, Ally Walker, and Darnell Williams. The show aired December 1989 - February 1990.

James Wlcek (Ben Shelby) Excerpt from the book - An Actor's Guide: Your First Year in Hollywood by Michael Nicholas published in 2000 　

Could be that's what Ilene meant. Although by the second six months they were already beginning the Prince Albert story exactly at that time. Ilene said she doesn't know why she didn't accept the offers to come back because she wasn't working.

Danfling - Click on your name at the top of the page. Click on the option Personal Messenger. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ilene Kristen was interviewed last night (7/10) on The Soap Series blog radio.. Just a little was said about Ryan's Hope in the interview and two things Ilene said surprised me. http://www.blogtalkr...ne-kristen-oltl At approx. 41:55 Ilene said she isn't really sure why she was fired from Ryan's Hope in 1983. Over the years she had previously said it was the weight gain caused by her thyroid problem ( a problem which she said she had already had gained weight by her first OLTL stint). Not sure why she is now saying she doesn't know the reason. At approx. 39:15 This is something I had never heard before and also surprised me - Ilene said after she left Ryan's Hope the first time (late 1978), the show kept calling her agent every 6 months, asking her to come back. I guess Randall Edwards could have been axed at any time if they were always trying to get Ilene to return to the role. I wonder if Randall knew this.

Thanks, Carl! 　 I don't think it's Michael Beck. That actor in the clip doesn't look, or sound (his voice), the way Michael Beck did in the 1977 episode.

Frank's campaign office? In which episode? Michael Beck was seen at hospital strike headquarters in a November of 1977 episode. Danfling - check your personal messages.

Patrick James Clarke (Pat #4) An April 2012 interview about his career and life -- with a few lines about Ryan's Hope. Actor James Clarke makes his presence known on Asolo Rep stage

2008 photo of Sarah Felder (Siobhan #1) Sarah was the vocal and dialect coach for the Denver Center Theatre Company's production of Glengarry Glen Ross October 10 - November 22, 2008 Sarah (on the right), with Angela Calir, at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts 30th season kick-off celebration on October 13, 2008. https://www.blacktie...il.cfm?id=91664 Sarah's GGR bio is on the 7th page down https://docs.google....H2Jw7cGqzIa1hJg

Julia Barr made it sound like she was let go by Ryan's Hope and then auditioned and hired by AMC. Julia's version fits with what soap magazines reported at the time - - that the show wanted to trim the cast and refocus on Ryan/Coleridge stories June 22, 2011 http://www.welovesoa...juliabarr1.html

I feel the same way. He wasn't a very likeable Pat, but it's great he's pursuing his acting dreams again.

Robert Finoccoli (Pat #3) plays Senator Tom Cranston in the independent film, Molly's Girl http://www.mollysgir....com/index.html The last info on Robert was that he was a business manager in Iowa (where this film was made)-- looks like he has resumed his acting career Ellen Dolan (Margo from As the World Turns) plays his wife Ginger

Ron Hale (Roger) received a star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars on January 7, 2012. Also in attendance were former Ryan's Hope co-stars Daniel Hugh Kelly, Geoff Pierson, Ilene Kristen, and Judith Chapman. Sorry if this was already posted somewhere else on the forum -- I've been having a lot of computer trouble lately.