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AW's Susan Trustman (the original Pat Matthews Randolph), now going by her married name of Susan Leider, is now an accomplished painter. Here is her website: http://susanleiderart.com/about

Speaking of Susan Trustman, she is a painter now - using her married name of Susan Leider. Here is her website: http://susanleiderart.com/about

I wonder what led to their falling-out if he dissed her in a later interview. I saw Dorrie Kavanaugh on the SoapNet reruns of RH, and also in a small but crucial role in the 1978 miniseries The Awakening Land, starring Elizabeth Montgomery, Hal Holbrook, Jane Seymour and (in his first screen role) William H. Macy. George Reinholt himself seemed like such an enigma. I heard he had written a memoir and finished it just before his passing. Does anyone know if it was ever published? I and doubtless many others would certainly be interested in reading it.

Thanks again, Carl!!

Really? Thanks! I'll set the DVR.

Thanks for posting the picture, Carl. I actually also sent it to Jacquie's daughter, Jennifer. She was thrilled as she had never seen that picture before, and commented that she thought her mom had the least attractive dress of the four. LOL

I wish someone would get the surviving cast and crew together for a reunion while we still have them. Maybe We Love Soaps could get on this?

Yesterday, I had a wonderful email from Carolee, who shared a lovely story about her good friend, Sally Gracie (Martha): "Darling Sally. I loved her. When my mother was visiting us in NY, Sally had us over to her apartment on Madison Ave. and served petit fours from the very best bakery and tea. My mother was thrilled. Be well, Carolee" I learned that Tim Kebbe, the son of Sally Gracie, is a lawyer who has his own law firm in White Plains, NY. Here's the link to his website, as well as a photo. I can definitely see resemblance to his mother. http://www.kebbelaw.com/ Anyway, I emailed him at the address on the top right-hand corner of the site last night, and was delighted to receive a response from him this morning. I had also forwarded him the same message from Carolee that I just posted here. Here goes: "Thanks for you kind note and the forwarded message from Carolee Campbell. Like Carolee, your messages bring me to and through memory’s gateway. Carolee was a great friend of my mother and father, as was her husband Hector Elizondo. She also stands out as a respected and fun part of my childhood. I have seen some older - that is, from the 1950’s - clips of my mother on YouTube. I am not familiar with the Retro Television channel, but will take a look. In a way, I grew up with The Doctors and its cast. I finished my adolescence with One Life to Live, another day-time drama, and its cast. I had a happy childhood and adolescence. My mother, I discovered, was more or less the same at home as she was on television, on stage or in movies. So the delightful person you have encountered on Retro TV is the same one who raised me. I appreciate your note. I think that Sally would be pleased that television aficionados still enjoy her work. Take care. Tim" I hope you all enjoy this note as much as I have.

That might have been more entertaining than Victoria Rowell vs....well, anyone. (Sorry, I had to say it!!!)

For those of you who wanted to see the Different World episode, you're in luck - TV One will be rerunning it on Wednesday (5/20) at 9 PM EST.

Even though the two Irises had very different acting styles and very different takes on the character, each actress was/is larger than life. That's why both were believable.

I haven't yet, but will soon. Thanks again.

In 1992, People profiled James "Uncle Porkchop" Kiberd and his wife, Susan Keith: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20113007,00.html June 29, 1992 Vol. 37 No. 25 Romance in Sudsville By Karen S. Schneider Love Was in the Stars for All My Children's James Kiberd and Loving's Susan Keith—but First It Was in the Script LATE ONE AUGUST NIGHT 1983 ON THE Manhattan set of ABC's newly created soap opera, Loving, leading man James Kiberd was engaged in a passionate kiss with beautiful blonde No. 17—the last contestant in the day's audition for his character's Ms. Right. "They're all fine except her," Kiberd told the producers after the actress left. "I don't like her." Sound like a story line for a daytime drama? It soon became one. Despite Kiberd's protestations, Susan Keith was hired as Shana Sloane Vochek, the temperamental lawyer she plays today. (In 1985, though, Kiberd, now 37, left the show, and since 1989 has played cantankerous detective Trevor Dillon on ABC's All My Children.) For months when the camera taped, the couple kissed, but when it stopped, they glared. "I thought he was just like his character—blunt, a chauvinist pig and inarticulate," says Keith, 32. "He was mean to me for the longest time." "You were mean to me too," shoots back James, nibbling cold cuts in the kitchen of their three-story restored Victorian house in Westchester County, on the Hudson River north of New York City. But love, like organ music in the afternoon, overwhelmed the dissonance. In less than a year, the sniping had turned to after-hours heart-to-hearts, and before long the couple's on-air smooches were looking suspiciously sincere. "There was one scene at a fashion show," recalls Loving producer Barbara Duggan, "where he just grabbed her and kissed her, and everyone in the studio went, 'Whew!' " In September 1985, during an emotional Loving goodbye scene, Kiberd ditched the scripted "Shana, I can't marry you." Instead, as the stunned crew looked on, he ad-libbed, "Susan, will you marry me?" As the cameramen prepared to retape the scene, recalls Keith, "I started laughing. I mean, he didn't have a ring. No flowers. No kneepads." Replies Kiberd: "But my shoes were tied...and my zipper was up." Friends questioned the union. Keith, from rural Crystal Lake, Ill., the daughter of a grocery-chain supervisor and a clerical worker, was a self-described "nice Midwestern girl"; Kiberd, son of an architect and a landscaper from Providence, was "a wild man," says Keith, known for "getting down on all fours in hallways and barking. People would take me aside and say, 'Are you sure about what you're doing?' " Six years later, the answer, say both, remains an emphatic yes. "It's been heaven ever since," claims Kiberd. Well, OK—not ever since. "He leaves drawers open and runs red lights," complains Keith. "Turning red, honey," corrects her spouse. Playful banter aside, the couple's only source of real concern has been their difficulty having children. "I'm losing hope," says Susan, who last year had two pregnancies end in miscarriages. "Last night I saw an ad for EPT home pregnancy test. I put the blanket over my head." Adds Kiberd softly: "It's been very painful." Yet between their soap lives and their own lives—curling up to watch Roseanne, touring art galleries and communing with their rottweiler, Omen, and their Siamese cat, Caliban—they have neither the time nor inclination to dwell on sadness. Nor, in Kiberd's case, on the rowdy life that used to be. "I never thought I could be faithful," says Kiberd, glancing tenderly at his wife, "but she's the doll of dolls." KAREN S. SCHNEIDER MARIA EFTIMIADES in Westchester Contributors: Maria Eftimiades.

People did a profile on the Kiberds in 1992: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20113007,00.html June 29, 1992 Vol. 37 No. 25 Romance in Sudsville By Karen S. Schneider Love Was in the Stars for All My Children's James Kiberd and Loving's Susan Keith—but First It Was in the Script LATE ONE AUGUST NIGHT 1983 ON THE Manhattan set of ABC's newly created soap opera, Loving, leading man James Kiberd was engaged in a passionate kiss with beautiful blonde No. 17—the last contestant in the day's audition for his character's Ms. Right. "They're all fine except her," Kiberd told the producers after the actress left. "I don't like her." Sound like a story line for a daytime drama? It soon became one. Despite Kiberd's protestations, Susan Keith was hired as Shana Sloane Vochek, the temperamental lawyer she plays today. (In 1985, though, Kiberd, now 37, left the show, and since 1989 has played cantankerous detective Trevor Dillon on ABC's All My Children.) For months when the camera taped, the couple kissed, but when it stopped, they glared. "I thought he was just like his character—blunt, a chauvinist pig and inarticulate," says Keith, 32. "He was mean to me for the longest time." "You were mean to me too," shoots back James, nibbling cold cuts in the kitchen of their three-story restored Victorian house in Westchester County, on the Hudson River north of New York City. But love, like organ music in the afternoon, overwhelmed the dissonance. In less than a year, the sniping had turned to after-hours heart-to-hearts, and before long the couple's on-air smooches were looking suspiciously sincere. "There was one scene at a fashion show," recalls Loving producer Barbara Duggan, "where he just grabbed her and kissed her, and everyone in the studio went, 'Whew!' " In September 1985, during an emotional Loving goodbye scene, Kiberd ditched the scripted "Shana, I can't marry you." Instead, as the stunned crew looked on, he ad-libbed, "Susan, will you marry me?" As the cameramen prepared to retape the scene, recalls Keith, "I started laughing. I mean, he didn't have a ring. No flowers. No kneepads." Replies Kiberd: "But my shoes were tied...and my zipper was up." Friends questioned the union. Keith, from rural Crystal Lake, Ill., the daughter of a grocery-chain supervisor and a clerical worker, was a self-described "nice Midwestern girl"; Kiberd, son of an architect and a landscaper from Providence, was "a wild man," says Keith, known for "getting down on all fours in hallways and barking. People would take me aside and say, 'Are you sure about what you're doing?' " Six years later, the answer, say both, remains an emphatic yes. "It's been heaven ever since," claims Kiberd. Well, OK—not ever since. "He leaves drawers open and runs red lights," complains Keith. "Turning red, honey," corrects her spouse. Playful banter aside, the couple's only source of real concern has been their difficulty having children. "I'm losing hope," says Susan, who last year had two pregnancies end in miscarriages. "Last night I saw an ad for EPT home pregnancy test. I put the blanket over my head." Adds Kiberd softly: "It's been very painful." Yet between their soap lives and their own lives—curling up to watch Roseanne, touring art galleries and communing with their rottweiler, Omen, and their Siamese cat, Caliban—they have neither the time nor inclination to dwell on sadness. Nor, in Kiberd's case, on the rowdy life that used to be. "I never thought I could be faithful," says Kiberd, glancing tenderly at his wife, "but she's the doll of dolls." KAREN S. SCHNEIDER MARIA EFTIMIADES in Westchester Contributors: Maria Eftimiades.

That's awesome!! God bless her.

Very interesting! I always love stories about the behind the scenes work, like set construction.

Did Carmen Duncan ever have a role on the soaps again - other than filling in for Eileen Fulton on ATWT?

I've seen various clips but am unable to exactly piece together the whole story of Susan Keith's Shana. I do know she was a lawyer and one of her husbands was a former priest. I take it that she was off the canvas before the murders began and the show morphed into The City. Did she ever have children? Can anyone fill in the blanks for me? Thanks.

Thank you, Carl, I had not seen that article before. Anne did find the perfect guy - George Solomon - and married him in 1981. They are still happily married today, and their only child, a son named Tom, is a doctor. George and I first became acquainted on Twitter several years ago, and then FB. He is a very kind, funny and sweet man who plays ukulele and is devoted to his family. The Solomons were very close friends with Paul Michael Glaser (who also had soap experience before hitting big with Starsky & Hutch) and his wife, Elizabeth. The Solomons' son Tommy was in the same class with the Glasers' son Jake. George told me that Tom was inspired to become a doctor largely because of the Glasers' brave face in the struggle against AIDS, and that Tom and Jake are still friends to this day. I also have Annie's autograph and I can email you the images so you can post them here. Thanks again!!

I wonder if anyone else well-known was up for the part of Iris before Carmen Duncan was cast.

It would have been more powerful if there had been no music at all.

Thank you, Paul Raven! I look forward to watching Dolly's story.

Peter Burnell DID look younger than his years. We're heading into the April 1969 episodes, which would have made him 27 IRL then (Mike was said to be 22). Yet he had such an old soul way about him. I'm so sorry his life ended so tragically. I hope that he would be happy to know that a new generation is now watching and admiring his work.

Thank you! For some reason, I thought she had started at the beginning of 1988. She and Doug Watson were only co-stars for 6-7 months before his passing.

So sad that neither of them are with us anymore, along with most of the cast of that time. (Nancy Donohue passed away in early 2001 at the age of 63, and later that year both Sally Gracie and Gerald Gordon passed on.)