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As far as I can recall, Mike Bauer's law partner at his firm was Peter Wexler (played by Michael Durrell). I came back as a viewer to "The Guiding Light" in the spring of 1970, and do not recall a character named Tom Halverson, nor the name Chris Sarandon in the crawl. I don't think Rita Putnam (played by Anna Shaler) was Ira Newton's (played by Larry Gates) secretary. I seem to recall her as some snoopy TV reporter. There are a number of omissions in that character summary (actually, more of an alleged plot summary). For example: No mention was made of Liberty Airlines. No mention was made of Johnny Fletcher (played by Erik Howell). No mention was made of Barbara Norris (played by Augusta Dabney and then by Barbara Berjer). No mention was made of Adam Thorpe (played by Robert Gerringer and then by Robert Milli). No mention was made of David Vested (played by Peter D. Greene and then by Dan Hamilton). No mention was made of Mrs. Herbert (played by Rosetta LeNoire). No mention was made of Hope's friend, Christie Rogers (played by Ariane Munker). No mention was made of Deborah Mehren (played by Olivia Cole). No mention was made of Karen Martin (played by Tudi Wiggins). I note that concerning Leslie Bauer's being charged with Stanley Norris' murder, what really got her into trouble was being witnessed in the park on a rainy night by Charles Eiler (played by Graham Jarvis). He was walking his dog, when he spotted her running through the park, crying, and saying, "I could kill him!" Also omitted was Charles' wife, Betty Eiler (played by Madeleine Sherwood). Does anyone remember that the second actor to play Stanley Norris (William Smithers) used to put his feet up on the office desk a lot?! Regards from NYC! Soapluvva http://www.youtube.com/soapluvva http://www.facebook.com/soapluvva

Madeleine Sherwood was on "The Edge of Night" prior to "The Flying Nun," and on "The Guiding Light," "The Secret Storm," and "One Life to Live" after "The Flying Nun." Regards! Soapluvva http://www.youtube.com/soapluvva

I was one of the subscribers to Bryna Laub's "Daytime Serial Newsletter" in the 1970s. I have every single issue around, somewhere, in one of my storage cartons. What months were you reprinting? As I recall, Bryna first began to publish the newsletter toward the end of 1972. TV Guide had done an article on Bryna, but I can't remember any of the details. Regards! Soapluvva http://www.youtube.com/soapluvva

Madeleine Sherwood was also on "Guiding Light" and "One Life to Live." She offered me the half-doughnut that day, on the set of "The Secret Storm," because, during a break in rehearsals, she noticed that I was staring at the doughnuts on display, on the tray, under the clear plastic cover, on the countertop at Carmen's Diner. So, she commented, "You look hungry!", uncovered the doughnuts, broke one in half, and offered it to me! Good thing that "The Secret Storm" was using real doughnuts, and not just some fake props -- LOL! Regards! Soapluvva http://www.youtube.com/soapluvva

Hi, Brent! Greetings from Soapluvva in New York City! http://www.youtube.com/soapluvva I just joined this messageboard! Here are two of my posts about "The Secret Storm" which I posted to the messageboard at "The World of Soap Themes" in 2003: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out Gary Sandy's cool Website !!! I happened to stumble onto it while I was using Google to search for "The Secret Storm." Gary played Stace Reddin on "The Secret Storm" and was in that infamous "death by pitchfork" scene in which Jessie Reddin (played by Frances Sternhagen) met her untimely demise after she fell on a pitchfork in the barn. This occurred during a fight scene between Mark Reddin (played by David Gale) and his brother, Stace. Gary was in other soap operas (namely, "Somerset" and "As the World Turns" ), has done quite a bit of stage work, and is probably most well-known for his role of Andy Travis in "WKRP in Cincinnati." Gary has posted several backstage photos taken at "The Secret Storm" when it was taped at CBS Studio 54 at 221 West 26 Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. (Note: "The Guiding Light" was taped at CBS Studio 51 at the same address during the 1970s.) He has also posted a variety of other interesting photos dealing with his career, as well as some family shots. I visited the set of "The Secret Storm" in January 1974, approximately one month before the show went out of production. Gary was no longer around, having been written out in 1973, but I did get to meet Jada Rowland (playing Amy Kincaid), Keith Charles (playing Dr. Brian Neeves), Stephanie Braxton (playing Laurie Reddin), the actor playing the handyman, Eric Kovac (I've forgotten the actor's name, but his character was bad, having killed Georgina and being currently involved in terrorizing Laurie.), and Madeleine Sherwood (playing Carmen, the owner of the diner that employed Joanna Morrison). In fact, Madeleine Sherwood gave me half a doughnut, but that can be the subject of a later post! The URL of Gary Sandy's Website is: http://www.garysandy.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I really don't know who wrote "The Secret Storm" in 1970 !!! Eddie Layton did not save any of the front covers of his scripts (which would have contained that information). He only saved interior pages on which he had written musical notes, and only then, the particular pages where he considered the music to be noteworthy (pun intended)! The name "Gillian Houghton" definitely sounds very familiar, though, as having been in the credits under "written by" for a number of years! I believe Charles Weiss was the producer, Robert Myhrum was a director, and Andre St. Laurent was an associate director. I know that Susan Orlikoff was the production assistant for a couple of years, and then she became an associate director when Andre St. Laurent left. Susan's mother, Rose, was one of the sixth grade teachers where I went to elementary school, and, in fact, Susan, herself, attended the school, but I didn't know her, at the time, because she was a few grades ahead of me. On a day when I was visiting my old elementary school, Rose told me that she had played one of the jurors at the Susan Carver murder trial. The day that I visited "The Secret Storm," back in January 1974, in fact, it was Susan Orlikoff who was showing me around, and introducing me to people. Susan Orlikoff got married, became Susan Orlikoff Simon, moved to California, and was a director on "Days of Our Lives" for a while. I have no idea what she's doing now, and I can't find any current information about her on the Internet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6/27/10 update: Rose Orlikoff passed away on January 17, 2008. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04EEDC153AF933A15752C0A96E9C8B63 Susan Orlikoff is currently Susan Orlikoff Aronowitz. Her current husband, Joel Aronowitz, used to be a director, and an associate director, on "The Edge of Night." He also worked on "As the World Turns" for a while.