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Today, is the 50th wedding anniversary of Jo and Tony.  September 22, 1972.

Minnix offered the text of the ceremony to Ralph Ellis and Eugenie Hunt who were the headwriters of SFT at the time.  They incorporated it into the script.  

What is issue of Variety was the Minnix article in?  I would like to read it.  Could you post it?

antmunoz, neiljohnson.  Patti mentioned that Chris was in the army and Tracy Ellen was in college and living with her boyfriend.

Bruce Minnix wrote the wedding ceremony for Jo and Tony.  He did not play the minister who married them, Norman Rose portrayed the minister.  Minnix used the same ceremony for the couples he married as Cape May, NJ mayor from 1972 to 1976.

4 hours ago, will81 said:

Just as a heads up Peggy O'Shea started Nov 1975. Probably around Nov 24. Though that is pretty much 1976. Ann was there from June 1974 - Nov 1975.

Thanks will81.  I thought that Peggy O'Shea started in January, 1976.

1975:  George Reinholt and Jacquie Courtney fired from Another World.  Anthony George quit Search for Tomorrow.  William Gray Espy left The Young and the Restless. 

On 4/25/2020 at 5:33 PM, Neil Johnson said:

 

Well, the action in New Orleans was always intended to be temporary.  It was just setting up the family history of the Sentell and Tourners.  

 

Do you remember when Martin Tourner returned to New Orleans on a business trip or something, and hooked=up with an old girlfriend who was a prostitute, and she was Jo's doppelgänger?  Played by Mary Stuart.  It was wild, watching Mary play that character.   It may have been Mary Stuart's first scene in bed with a man.  Not sure about that.  

 

I remember that scene, just about fell off the couch.  As for bed scenes, Jo had some with Tony that were somewhat frisky.

Ann Marcus was the headwriter in June, 1975, when Tony's death scene aired.  Peggy O'Shea did not start until 1976.

Ann Williams. 

Sherry Mathis. 

Jo and Stephanie on Search for Tomorrow.

My collection includes the following:

Both of Me by Mary Stuart

The Wonderful World of TV Soap Operas, From Ma Perkins to Mary Hartman, Soap World by Robert LaGuardia

Whistling Girl by Ann Marcus

Writing the Soaps by Jean Rouverol

Super Soaps by Jane Cutler et al

Soaps by Manuela Soares

All My Afternoons by Annie Gilbert

Inside the Soaps by Paul Denis

Soap Opera Almanac by Ron Lachmann

Soap Opera Encyclopedia by Chris Schemering 

Soap Opera Encyclopedia by Gerard Waggett

Worlds Without End

OLTL, AW, ATWT, BB hardcover books

Kim Zimmer, Jeanne Cooper and Ruth Warrick autobiographies.

There are more, just have to dig them out.

On 10/22/2019 at 9:29 PM, antmunoz said:

Mary Stuart is accused of being a diva many times, usually by producers and P&G execs, in her autobiography, BOTH OF ME. But was she?  Maybe.  Co-star Anthony George thought so at least once, according to her own book. 

 According to Mary's autobiography, Both of Me, the blowup happened during the summer of 1974.  Mary walked into rehearsal one morning and Tony was already upset about the script. She said she would fix it,  He flew into a rage and threw the script at her.  It lasted ten or fifteen minutes.  They could not rehearse.  She stated she was so upset, she cried all morning.  And he called her an ugly name as they were walking into the scene on air.  She felt a few word changes would shift emphasis, making Tony the strong one.  She had done so in the past and it had worked for both of them.  Tony and Mary according to her did not have anymore cross words, but the situation destroyed the chemistry they had.  I have read that passage many times and have read about Tony having diva like behavior when he was in Hollywood.  Tony wanted out of SFT by that time and this was probably the straw that broke the camel's back.

George Gaynes was the first recast.  Roy Shuman was playing Sam when the character was killed off.  Robert Loggia played Tony Vincente while Tony George was recovering from lung surgery in 1973.

Margaret Whitton appeared on Search for Tomorrow using the name of Peggy Whitton.  She played Claire Hart in 1971.

Len's twin brother was named Jamie.

Also, Carl Low (Dr. Bob Rogers) appeared as Colonel Hutchinson for an episode.

Just a reminder, Search for Tomorrow premiered 62 years ago today.

On another board the subject of Anthony George's (Tony Vincente) acting has been discussed. What did you think of his acting while he was SFT?

I do not know the exact timeline, but CBS cancelled SFT. And Brian Frons was the exec at CBS who stated that SFT was a "dinosaur." So, he ended up cancelling the show twice!

Marcy was Tony Vincente's first wife. She had money and power which she used to put Tony through medical school. Their marriage was an unhappy one and Marcy faked her paralysis in order to hold on to him. Anne Revere played Agnes Lake who served as the Vincentes' housekeeper as well as Marcy's nurse. One day, Agnes saw Marcy up and walking about the living room. Agnes threatened to tell Tony and Marcy attacked her with a fireplace poker. Once Agnes regained consciousness, she told all to Tony. Tony then divorced Marcy and proposed marriage to Jo Tate. Marcy was played by Jeannie Carson who was born and raised in England, thus her accent.

I have both issues.

Just a reminder, Search premiered 61 years ago today!

It was ten years ago today that Mary Stuart passed away.

In the flashback scenes that Andrea had during the trial featured Hal Linden as Larry Carter, the other man. I remember reading that Hal said he and Joan Copeland taped those scenes during a weekend. The show used the scenes several times after the trial because he got residual checks for several years after he had taped them.

Paul, Kathy's maiden name is mentioned in Robert LaGuardia's books, The Wonderful World of TV Soap Operas and Soap World. Carl, SFT went through a slew of headwriters during the seventies especially 1974. SFT started 1974 with the Ellises, then Theo Apstein, then Gillian Houghton (aka Gabrielle Upton) and Ann Marcus.