Paul Raven

Sizzling hot? Me thinks not! This pretty much talks about what's happening now, so more of the same. The shocking decision re Harrison will be to send him away like every other kid in town. Teriah-unexpected challenge. Tessa probably has to go on tour-she is a superstar after all.

The lighting with high definition is quite unforgiving with some of the more 'mature' performers. I'm sure if Anthony Morina really gave a damn, he'd try and address this and many other production issues. But this is a leader who, in the time he's been EP, I don't think has made any statements or given interviews about the show. Although , with what went down on set, maybe he's been forbidden to speak.

Anne Francis Aunt Jenny Rosemary

Elizabeth Hubbard The Verdict is Yours The Brighter Day

Evelyn Varden Monica Breedlove in The Bad Seed! I love her in that role. Never made the connection before. Also Amanda of Honeymoon Hill 1942 Young Dr Malone Mrs Julia Plummer Road of Life Agnes Lowell Big Sister Mrs Carvell Young Widder Brown 1945 Portia Faces Life Agatha Tate Best Sellers 'The Ballad and the Source'

I recall at one point SOD had a late breaking news item that mentioned Dougie would be returning to Salem. I guess this had to be the time that Bill Hayes returned around 86/87.

I see that one of Lee's grandchildren is named Sterling. I wonder if this was an intentional nod to her Love of Life character Barbara Sterling or just a nice coincidence? Marion Hailey Moss was a fellow actor in the 60's and appeared on SFT as Janet Bergman at one point.

I think I got the Randall England Y&R role from SOD and they weren't specific as to who Stan was. I know Y&R did repeat names so his Stan could be a completely different character. Horace Braham By Kathleen Norris The Goldbergs Mr Minton 1940 Big Sister Monet We Are Always Young Renfrew of the Mounties Col Archer Just Plain Bill 1950 Lorenzo Jones Roger Caxton 1954

Yes but there were not the constant center of storylines with characters 'working' there, takeovers etc It was mildly annoying then and extremely annoying now.

Randall England The Young and the Restless Stan (Sally's boyfriend?) Jacqueline Billingsley (daughter of Sherman Billingsley, former bootlegger and owner of New York's Stork Club) Front Page Farrell 1949 Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters 1952 Lora Lawton 1949 Stella Dallas 1948 Perry Mason 1948 Apologies for requesting names already posted.I will now triple check!

May I request Jacqueline Billingsley Horace Braham Evelyn Varden Clayton Landey Randall England

Beverley Taylor Backstage Wife 1945

Dody was on SFT as Althea Franklin around 1968.not sure for how long. Althea had something to do with Stu and Marge. She was also on Texas as Mavis Cobb. Danfling, check for any performers you are interested in on the Soap Hoppers thread. Hundreds of names listed there and roles that are often not listed elsewhere.

Her LOL role was Christy a student nurse

June 1993 Actor enthusiastic about 'Loving' role By Nancy M. Reichardt United Feature Syndicate NEW YORK In what is perhaps the latest bid to help raise its ratings, Loving has hired hunky Philip Brown to play rugged Buck Houston. After Brown left his role of handsome Steve Kendall on Search for Tomorrow in 1983, he relocated to California and landed roles in the series The Colbys, Knots Landing and Sisters. Although Brown swore that he would never do another daytime soap again, he couldn't say no to Loving. "I came back to daytime because I'm facing my fears in life," says the California-born actor. "To me, daytime is the toughest arena to be in because you're doing a show a day and learning all those lines. I believe this job is a God-given gift and that it happened for a reason. It didn't happen for me to say 'no' to it." Although Brown considers his new job a gift, the actor had to make sacrifices. "I had a wonderful life in California that I had to give up to come back to New York to do Loving," he says. "I just bought a house a year ago and I have two dogs, Cassie and Zelda, that are my best friends. After I was told I had the role, I had a major anxiety attack that lasted all night. I realized I had signed a three-year contract with Loving and that I'm not going to see my house or my dogs or my family. It was not easy to give all that up." Brown was so filled with angst that he wanted to back out of the role on Loving and head home to California. But, as fate would have it, he bumped into the woman who cast him on Loving and she managed to change his mind again. Brown is happy about his decision. "I'm quite pleased to be with Loving, because they have been very good to me," says Brown. "What intrigued me about the role of Buck is that he's a country-western, outdoorsy kind of character. I've never really had a chance to play that, and Buck is more of who I am. I feel very positive about being on Loving, and I believe we can take this half-hour show and turn it around and put it right into the top. People are going to start talking about this soap that you just have to watch." The show's low ratings don't worry Brown. "I don't believe that Loving has an ax hanging over it," he says. "As an actor, you can't worry about things like that. You just go in and do your best and whatever happens is going to happen. You ' can't control it." Since the character of Buck is somewhat mysterious, Brown has no idea what Buck's future holds. "I don't know what direction I want to take Buck in yet all I know is that I want him to be honest," says the actor. "I want him to say what he feels, stick by it and take some chances. Since I was brought up in a family where we weren't taught to express how we feel, I think playing Buck will be therapeutic for me, a kind of catharsis. I think it will be a freeing experience for me. I'd like to see Buck always have an edge, but I'd like to see him progress into a nice guy and see him struggle with it. It would be interesting for the audience to see him striving to be a better person."

Interview with Michelle Lee. The marriage didn't last. Love James Farentino choosing a career woman because it would benefit him. Maybe Michele had a rethink on hubby's attitude? Interesting to note that none of the Knots ladies worked when the show premiered (did Ginger?), a reflection of the times that middle class women were expected to be 'housewives' and content with that. But things were changing... July 1980 Michele Lee calls 'Knots' ' a precedent-setting show By STACEY JENEL SMITH Chicago Tribune Service Michele Lee hates to admit it, but she nearly turned down her role in "Knots Landing." "My response was 'Oh, God playing the mother of a teenager! I'll be typecast as a matron and won't be able to get work. "The roles society puts on women ! It's as If once they're mothers, they're put out to pasture. "But the last few months have given me a whole new positive perspective on it, a whole new awareness,". she says. I know now I'm really lucky. And maybe it sounds funny to say this, but I really feel that this character is a contribution." Certainly the past decade has brought changes in television's treatment of divorcees and widows with the emergence of such shows as Bonnie' Franklin's "One Day at a Time." But as far as Michele is concerned, the "Knots Landing" character is still a precedent-setter. "You now have the opportunity for a viewing audience to see a positive, 'now,' 'together' wife and mother," she says. "She's liberated and she chooses not to work. I used to think I was liberated because I worked, but now I know that being liberated has to do with what's inside you. Karen doesn't consider herself 'just a housewife' and she isn't." Michele who like her her character, Karen, is 37, sits in the sunny patio of a Los Angeles cafe, excitedly expounding upon all the plus points of her video alter ego. She describes scenes from the "Knots" series in which Karen has distinguished herself as honest, bright and capable sparing no detail. It soon becomes clear not only that the show's producers need not be concerned about her dedication to "Knots," but that effervescent, enthusiastic Michele could make quite a filibuster artist. She is equally enthusiastic when it comes to discussion of her 14-year-old union with actor James Farentino, a topic which, naturally, she includes during her talk about "now," liberated women and progressive marriage. "He conscientiously searched for a career woman to marry and that was before the new awareness, before the women's movement got started. He felt it would give him more freedom. ' That's how he saw it. He'd known men whose wives' days didn't begin until their husbands came home, husbands who were under real pressure to fulfill this other person. He saw it as a stifling influence. , "Sometimes things get uncomfortable when we're both working, when neither of us is at home," Michele says with a shrug, "but that comes with the territory." . She explains that under such circumstances, the Farentinos' longtime housekeeper is entrusted with the care of their 10-year-Old son, David Michael. Making the commitment to the long hours a TV series involves was a weighty decision for Michele. "One of my Own personal goals was to be on a television series," says the woman who grew up around show business as the daughter of a Hollywood studio makeup man before hitting Broadway for the first time at age 17, going on to the stage and screen versions of "How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," and becoming a steadily working theater, film and TV actress and singer. "I know the enormous responsibility of being a parent and I don't take it lightly. I know I'm responsible to David and I also know that I'm responsible to myself. When I'm working, I let him know how rewarding and fulfilling it is to me. I also make it a point to reserve a period of time every day just for him, really concentrating with direct, one-to-one contact." If there's any doubt of her intensity when it comes to parenting, Michele goes on at length discussing the numerous child-rearing methods endorsed by the group PET (Parent Effectiveness Training), of which she is a member. And discussing child-rearing advice she has gleaned from books. And discussing how some of the tips she has picked up in her research (such as the importance of avoiding "labels" in describing people) have had a great impact on her life. "Sure it's tough to have a career that's important to you and to be a wife and mother at the same time. It does become a juggling match. But I think that any woman who wants it all can do it. Hopefully one day it'll be common for men to share more in the responsiblities of the home. A lot of working women today come home from their jobs jobs that are nine to five just like their husbands' and go bananas trying to prepare dinner while the men are relaxing with a martini. Because the woman's role is to cook." One would guess that's not the case at Michele's and Jim's house. "He cooks, he cooks," she assures with a laugh, "more often than I do. It's something that happened out of pleasure because Jim really likes to cook. He cooks when he wants to or, sometimes he might say, 'Hey, cook tonight, will you?' which is fine with me." Michele envisions a not-so-distant future in which both men's and women's job schedules may be planned around home responsibilities, when mothers and fathers will. trade off days of working and days of being home with their children. "After all the upheaval and all the shifting and all the pain of the changes we're going ' through now," she says, "we'll come out of it with ' a new flexibility for families. I don't buy the idea that the family is disappearing, though, because we need it too much. I am absolutely positive that the family will always last." She wants to get into such current sociological matters as the liberated-into-confusion woman and the threatened man on "Knots Landing," particularly since, she jokes, her character serves as such a wonderful mouthpiece. "Karen feels the same way about things as I do, 'cause I say so."

Laurene Tuttle The Guiding Light Dr Mary Leland 1949

Even if Sharon is on duty, there is usually one other staff member who walks around wiping tables that have not been used by non existent customers. It is a deliberate choice by Y&R - the same deal at Society and Gristly Pubis. One staff member. It is so annoying. And they consciously choose wide shots that emphasize the place is empty. I can't believe the budget is so tight they couldn't have 2 or 3 extras on the set.

That would be a story that would deal with history and bring up issues of abandonment, parenting and healing decades of hurt- much better to focus on company takeovers, back from the dead and podcasts...

And in front of all the customers at Crimson Lights!

The Guiding Light Jan Carter (Meta Bauer) Eve Mc Veagh 1948

The Brighter Day An article on Jay Meredith, who played Althea on the radio version states Jack Lemmon was once her husband on "The Brighter Day, " so Bruce was played the great Jack Lemmon on radio. Local newspaper article has Lionel Kranitz joinng TBD in June 58.

Albert Ottenheimer Edge of Night 'clerk of court' 1966

The Guiding Light 'blowsy blonde' Fran Lee 1963 As The World Turns ??? Carol Byron 1965

The Doctors debuted in April 1963 and struggled for several years. It changed format from daily to weekly anthology and then became fully fledged serial a year or so later but in August 67 it finally won the timeslot for NBC for the first time in 6 years - beating Art Linkletter's House Party. So officially a hit.