FlyRightOrchestraGuy

I have some conflicting information regarding Kimberly Beck's 1983 departure from Capitol. Both this Lynda Hirsch article and this Jon-Michael Reed article appear to indicate that she was fired from the show. In answering someone's question in late 1983, however, Pat Hilton basically said that Beck departed from Capitol so she could "pursue other acting interests." There's no doubt that Beck's slasher movie Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter was released less than year after she left the soap opera. According to this page on IMDb, The Final Chapter began filming on October 3, 1983, less than a month after the articles by Hirsch and Reed were released. I do know that Capitol and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter had the same casting directors (Fern Champion and Pamela Basker). I would like to know if Beck was cast in The Final Chapter before or after she was notified of her departure from Capitol. Did Champion cast Beck in The Final Chapter out of sympathy with her? Consider the iconic status of the Friday the 13th franchise and the fact that a lot of Friday the 13th fans think very highly of The Final Chapter (Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert didn't), I wonder if Beck herself has cleared the air regarding her '83 departure from Capitol in the decades since The Final Chapter was released to movie theaters in April of 1984. (Catherine Hickland, who replaced Beck as Julie Clegg on Capitol, was unable to do so in a 2020 interview with Alan Locher.) Perhaps Beck's departure from Capitol was more amicable than the articles by Hirsch and Reed would lead people to believe. Yes, I am aware that David Mason Daniels, who played Julie's significant other Tyler McCandless on Capitol, was himself let go in early 1985.

No offense, DRW50, but it's my understanding that this article is actually from the June 7, 1983, edition of Soap Opera Digest.