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Laura Malone (Blaine, AW, 1978-1984) became a lawyer years ago, and worked for the Associated Press and Getty Images. Now she is working as an attorney for Zulily, at its headquarters in Seattle. Here is her LinkedIn profile, complete with a photo. She looks wonderful!! https://www.linkedin.com/pub/laura-malone/2/145/893

I had a through-the-mail autograph success today from Susan Keith Kiberd, who is probably best known in the soap world as Shana on Loving, but originated the role of Cecile on AW in 1979. Not only did she autograph the photo I sent, but she also sent back a lovely, handwritten note. I had never known that her longtime hubby James Kiberd (always known to me as Trevor "Uncle Porkchop" Dillon on AMC) had also once been on AW, in the late 80s. I will email the images to Carl so he can get them posted here, but I will tell you that she wrote of their soap days, "Good times. Still friends with many of our soap families. Life is good!" Cecile may have been a nasty piece of work (especially in her original inception), but Mrs. Kiberd is a doll. What a sweetheart. Laura Malone (Blaine, 1978-1984) has been a lawyer for many years, for such heavy players as the AP and Getty Images. Since November of 2014, she has been an attorney at the Seattle headquarters of Zulily. Here is a current photo of her on her LinkedIn page. She looks wonderful!! https://www.linkedin.com/pub/laura-malone/2/145/893

I know that it is hard to imagine anyone other than Jane Wyman playing Angela - but if she never was cast in the part, who else do you think could have played Angela?

Bibi Besch - the future mother of Samantha Mathis.

Yeah, and after that he did guest appearances on shows like The West Wing. One of my favorites was his cameo in the movie Troop Beverly Hills. That was too funny. LOL

Soapsuds and khan, you'd do a much better job than many of the "professionals"!!

Thanks again so much, Carl - so we could all read, as the late, great Paul Harvey would say - the rest of the story.

Today I had my first through-the-mail autograph success with a Loving cast member - Susan Keith Kiberd!! She graciously signed the photo I sent and with it a lovely, handwritten note. She was very quick - only took a couple of weeks. I'll send the images to Carl so he can post them here. I've seen more of her work as the first Cecile on AW (thanks to YT) but not much as Shana. One thing is for sure - Mrs. Kiberd is an absolute doll.

They really did make my day. I went to my library a couple of hours ago because the hold I had on Kate Mulgrew's book came in, so I picked it up. I haven't started it yet, but probably will tonight. I'll post my thoughts on it here when I finish!!

Thank you, Carl!! I will alert my friend right away.

The wonderful Christopher Norris!! My mom was a viewer of Trapper John, M.D. and remembers her well from that show, but was not aware that she had done soaps (CN also originated the role of Penny Davis on The Doctors).

Awww...was that a yearly tradition?

My friend posted the photo on The Doctors page, since that show is where he had his longest soap run (1970-74), so you can see it here: http://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/27061-the-doctors/page-108

Thank you, jam, for posting the picture, and Paul Raven, for the info.

Tell me about it. I LOVED that site before it was bought by TV Guide. That's when Jump the Shark completely jumped the shark.

Carl, would you or anyone else here happen to have Part 2 of Jim Pritchett and Lydia Bruce's life stories from Afternoon TV magazine? Part 1 was in the June 1974 issue, I believe. My friend only has the first part - not the following issue that completes the stories. He believes that Beverly Penberthy and Michael Ryan from AW were on the cover of that issue. Thanks in advance for helping!!

As someone here posted upthread, it would have been great if ATWT had been able to get Gerald Gordon - even in a short-term role - and reteam him with his love interest on The Doctors, Liz Hubbard. There could have been a love triangle with him caught between Lucinda and Lisa. Or - Lucinda could have been torn between a GG character and John Dixon. Better still, a love quadrangle involving all of these four could have been created. Oh, the possibilities!!

Thanks! Yes, it is. In the same week, I had successes from both him and his The Doctors co-star, Liz Hubbard - both of them still going strong in their 80s.

Are there any vintage soap magazines that have interviews with Paul Michael Glaser (who was on both this show and on LOL) in his pre-Starsky days?

Love Susan Brown (and Peter Hansen)!! Great photo.

Good ol' Ted McGinley, the patron saint of jumping the shark. LOL

Liz was also engaged at one point to actor Brian Avery, who played the groom that Elaine Robinson (Katharine Ross) dumped at the altar to run away with Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman) in The Graduate. Jeremy Bennett accompanied his mom to the event for Martha Byrne's Weight, back in October 2014. He was an adorable little boy in the pictures in the vintage articles and grew up to become a VERY good-looking young man. Does anyone know if David Bennett is still alive? Does anyone know what happened to his fur business - in light of the anti-fur movement in the form of groups like PETA? I got another autograph success through the mail today from an actor who is not in the reruns we're seeing yet but would become the show's villain du joir in the early 70s - Patrick Horgan (Dr. John Morrison). He also appeared on EON, RH and several other soaps in short-term roles. I also got the autograph of his wife, Susie Bedsow-Horgan, best known for her stint as EP of OLTL in the mid-90s.

Today I had a through-the-mail autograph success from both Patrick Horgan (Thatcher Ross) and his wife, Susie Bedsow-Horgan, best known for her stint as EP of OLTL in the mid-90s. I liked the character of Thatcher Ross and felt more could have been done with him. He really did work well with Nikki Goulet.

I recall reading (I believe it was in Gerry Waggett's AW Trivia Book) that when the show wanted to celebrate Vicky Wyndham's 25th anniversary on the show in 1997, neither NBC nor P&G had saved any tapes of the show prior to 1980 and had to make a request to fans via the internet to see if they had any of her key moments as Rachel pre-1980 in their own personal collections. They got enough footage from fans to use in that episode. When was the fire that destroyed a lot of tapes of NBC shows? I'm wondering if any of those lost were the three The First Ladies Diaries specials that aired in 1975-76 in conjunction with the Bicentennial (and the Martha Washington one featured AW's James Luisi and garnered him an Emmy), and 1977's This is My Son, which starred TD's Carolee Campbell as the mother of a special needs child and won her an Emmy. I would LOVE to see them all and wonder if they exist anywhere anymore. No luck on YT, eBay or iOffer.

At long, LONG last, Liz has been rescued and Townsend has gone completely off the deep end. I guess now that this story is finally coming to an end, the next will revolve around the birth of the Aldrich baby.