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There is a new Catherine Hicks (Faith #3) interview about her 1980 TV performance as Marilyn Monroe. While others have asked Catherine about the role before (like Ty and Lisa did when she was on Soapnet's Soap Talk) it was great to hear someone interview her who had actually seen the movie recently and asks about certain scenes. http://blog.tvstoreonline.com/2014/03/catherine-hicks-looks-back-at-her-emmy.html As I mentioned some time ago, the former Cornell theater student that helped her when she first beginning her career was Jordan Clarke. -
That was when Jennifer Harmon was Cathy Craig, wasn't it? Were Ken and Jennifer a couple at that time?
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That Soapnet marathon was a wonderful way to celebrate the day. While some original viewers say they recall that Maeve singing Danny Boy was a yearly tradition, Maeve didn't sing the song on the first St. Patrick's day episode in 1976. She also didn't sing it in 1979 (Helen was only in the last 5 seconds of that episode -- the show ended with Maeve entering the bar after just arriving home from her trip from Ireland), 1985, and 1986 (on the old Soapnet message board we were told Ryan's Hope didn't have special SPD episodes those two years and that was why Soapnet didn't have them to play in their holiday marathons in 2000-2002.) In 2003, the SPD marathon was replaced with the airing of the first 5 episodes from 1975. That was the final special marathon of RH they ever had.
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Daniel Hugh-Kelly (Frank #3 on Ryan's Hope, Travis #2 on All My Children, Col. Winston Mayer on As the World Turns) guest starred tonight (3/4) on the NBC comedy Growing Up Fisher. Haley Pullos (Molly on General Hospital) was also in the episode.
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Daniel Hugh-Kelly (Frank # 3 on Ryan's Hope, Travis #2 on All My Children, Col. Winston Mayer on As the World Turns) guest starred tonight (3/3) on ABC's Castle.
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Geoff Pierson (Frank #4 - Ryan's Hope, Dr. Sullivan - Search For Tomorrow) guest starred on the TVland sitcom Kirstie (2/26)
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Faith Catlin (Faith #1 on Ryan's Hope) will be co-starring in “The Favor” at the Ten Minute Play Festival on February 21, 22, 23 in Thetford, Vermont.
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Ilene Kristen (Delia #1) sang Merry Christmas Darling on the 1983 album Soap Opera Christmas Ilene's song can be heard here (about three-quarters down the page under "Soap Opera Christmas", 1983) http://sammyreed.com/christmas/4.htm These other songs from the album are also heard there- "Oh Holy Night / Oh Happy Day" - Candice Earley (Donna, "All My Children) "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" - John Wesley Shipp (Kelly, "Guiding Light") "Blue Christmas" - Mary Gordon Murray (Becky, "One Life to Live") "The Christmas Song" - Darnell Williams (Jesse, "All My Children") "Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer" - Lori Laughlin (Jody, "Edge of Night") "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" - Hugo Napier (Gunnar, "As the World Turns") "Winter Wonderland" - Tom Nielsen (Floyd, "Guiding Light") "Jingle Bell Rock" - Denise Pence (Katie, "Guiding Light") "White Christmas" - Frank Runyeon (Steve, "As the World Turns")
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Antonio Fargas (fLes Baxter, All My Children) was in the UP (previously GMC) 2013 TV movie, Silver Bells, last night (12/7)
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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.
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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.
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Also in the 11/14 Elementary episode, Casey Biggs (Fenno, Ryan's Hope, 1989) had a small role as Alan Becker
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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