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@slick jonesHe'd better hope that Susan is in a good mood that day, lol!!

@slick jones I think Joshua Benard had a bit role on Days when he was a kid.  Do you remember that  @JAS0N47, or did I imagine it, lol?

Andrea Marcovicci and Leon Russom in two drinking and driving PSAs ads from 1972. 

Behind the scenes at Love of Life, from July 1972, Daylight TV Diary.  Includes a few photos of Ja'net DuBois, who played nurse Loretta Allen.

Doug and Julie were actually talking about having a baby shortly before Maggie’s oven blew up on Julie and their marriage fell apart.  Then Hope was SORASed to a teen shortly before they were remarried.

7 minutes ago, slick jones said:

And in one felled swoop dropped the late Jed Allan, Suzanne Rogers (who was dealing with her early diagnosis with myasthenia gravis), and the late Lanna Saunders, too. Foolishness.

Yeah, and Jed didn't get a farewell scene either. Can't remember re Suzanne and Lanna.   I was more into the CBS soaps around this time anyway, so I was happy that Susan turned up on Y&R. Missed Bill, of course.

1 hour ago, carolineg said:

The show did Susan dirty as far as that.  Her child being aged, Hope being aged, Doug being older...Julie does read older.  A lot of it is 80's styling but when I realized she is only 4 years older than Deidre Hall my mind was blown.  I am not saying SSH looks bad, but she seems like an entirely different generation than Marlena, Roman, John et all and she's not much older.  The show at that time also made Doug/Julie seem like old, crotchety parents who wouldn't let 'their' daughter have fun.  They easily could have let it all blow over, but they weren't wrong about what they were saying.  I can only imagine how disrespectful that felt to the Hayes after carrying the show for years.

Being married to a man 18 years older than her probably makes her seem older too.  They had her paired with a younger man on YR, and tried that when she returned to Days in 1990, but it didn't go anywhere.

Here are some clips with Donald May re the Serena Farraday story.  Serena had another personality named Josie.  Adam was defending her in a murder trial.

And an article from 1968 regarding his one-man show in a 1968 episode.  I have an interview with him from 1969 and he said the crew had given him a kinescope of that episode (which of course was done live then).  Would love to see that one.

5 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

That sounds out of bounds on her part. I can see why they left. Honestly I don't think I have ever enjoyed much of anything I have seen of her work on any soap. 

I haven't either, including on Another World and The Doctors.

Frons definitely played a role, but DePriest got mad at them after they asked for a meeting to discuss the manner in which Doug and Julie were being written (especially Doug).  Bill didn't like the way Doug was always angry at Hope, and didn't think it was in character.  DePriest told him that he didn't know anything about raising children (despite him raising five children of his own).  DePriest told them she would no longer write for them.  They ad-libbed their last lines in their final scenes in 1984.   They've said they probably should have let everything blow over and waited it out until there was another regime change.  Funny that Susan was considered "old" at 40. 

23 hours ago, danfling said:

Another performer that I would love to know about (and who seems to be a complete mystery) is Alberta Grant (Liz Hillyer Prentiss Field on The Edge of Night).

Any information will be appreciated!

I had read she moved to Spain many years ago.  I think this is her FB page but she hasn't posted anything in over ten years.

https://www.facebook.com/alberta.grant.3

1 hour ago, victoria foxton said:

 

  

Susan's mother wrote these scenes for them.  It had been almost nine years since we had last seen them on screen together. We never were given a reason for them splitting up in the first place (not counting the real-life factors).

@slick jonesLuchino Solito De Solis

35 minutes ago, slick jones said:

@jam6242

I did a little futzing with the spelling and found Lotte Stavisky...   and....

as well as some additional roles on page 271.

 

Haha—that’s one spelling I didn’t think of trying!

1 hour ago, Paul Raven said:

Re Bradley Hawkes

This photo of Scott Forbes also resembles the guy with the holster,don't you think? Let's do some more digging...

 

1 minute ago, jam6242 said:

Oh, yes, he does.   But would he be wearing a gun like that?  He wasn't playing a cop himself.

I think you're right about Christopher Plummer playing Bradley Hawkes (who is described in a 1954 TV Guide as a young police lieutenant who works with Dr. Adams to solve crimes).  Definitely looks like Plummer wearing the gun holster.  Also, could that be Donald Woods in the photo with him?  I've found one newspaper that lists him as part of the cast. 

Finally had some luck with Eubanks!

Thompson too!

And Denvir.

Found Boyd Crawford but I struck out with the others.

Hilary goes by Hilary Edson Polk now.  She seems to be mostly involved with theater but this is something she did about five years ago.

Sherman Marks.

Donald Kraatz

@slick jonesRe Eugene Eubank, couldn't find any reference to him being on Arnold Grimm or being an actor.  He seemed to be a life-long military man, since 1917.  Retired in 1954.

The only thing I found re Ruth Schaefer was that she played 6-year old "Jimmy," on Right to Happiness, in 1948 (while she was a journalism major at Columbia U.).

This is Guy De Vestel.

Re Sharon and Julie, can't say it was handled well.  Julie strongly rejected Sharon's advances and Sharon ended up slashing her wrists over it.  I don't think it was ever meant to be a serious relationship.  Julie had only recently finally married Doug and had no idea Sharon was interested in a romantic relationship with her.  I always had the impression that Sharon's husband Karl was also interested in Julie, and for some reason I thought Sharon and Karl were "swingers" and wanted Julie to participate.  Julie and Sharon did make up right before Sharon left town.  I remember Sharon giving Julie a brooch at that time.  I'm pretty sure it was all cut short because of fan hate mail.  This was around the same time the David/Valerie story was airing.

27 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Oh no! Keep the faith, this genre has some long living folks. (Although, sometimes I do fear that this pandemic could be having a deleterious impact on some, who might be have been more active in prepandemic times).

Have you thought of reaching out to one of those soap history bloggers on social media? Sadly, the We Love Soaps blog seems all but completely inactive at this point but they may have a contact E-mail or something. 

There don't seem to be any soap bloggers who keep up with the older soaps and actors these days.  Other fans seem to be the best source.

Well, our Ted could be deceased also.  He'd probably be well into his 80s by now.  He was one of my favorites when he was EON.