Paul Raven

Sam Mc Murray In his SOD interview this week he mentions a role on Edge of Night in 1974 And great work re Pamela King photo. I can see her as early 60's Lisa.

Alvin Lum Secret Storm 'interrogator' pre 1971

Pamela Bellwood appeared in The Doctors and had a running role on The Nurses (not sure if the primetime or daytime version) so qualifies as a Soap Hopper! Looking at that photo it does resemble a young Pamela Bellwood, so perhaps she was using her real name as a stage actress and didn't have to change it until she got an agent to get into television, Do we know what year the photo was taken?

Pamela King is a different actress. Bellwood is younger(born in 51) which would have made her only 13 when playing Lisa!) She did act under the name Pamela Kingsley She references her name change in this 1971 article about her appearance in 'Butterflies Are Free' in Florida with Ann Sothern and Beau Bridges. Agent responsible for name change "My real name is King, but when I first went into show business, there was already a Pamela King, so my agent added the 'sley' to my name."

My thanks also!

Y&R needs to stop these ridiculous business stories NOW. When Summer was taking the Marchetti job, we kept hearing about how they were the hottest fashion house in Europe (of course) So why would a US cosmetics firm be able to merge with them and why would Marchetti be interested? If this is about getting Summer back to GC why not have her admit that the job is harder/less satisfying than she hoped and that she wants to come back home? Would make more sense. But Y&R insists on everyone being fabulously successful in their careers. Tessa is apparently super successful as a singer(although there is no evidence of that) Newman Media is one of the big players, Fenmore's faces none of the challenges other retailers are facing etc etc

Still think her date should have been Tiny ,Chloe's fatther, who doesn't recognize her. Cue angst for Esther and a story for Chloe about reconnecting with her dad. Doesn't have to be front burner, just a break from the Diane and Ashland stories. Y&R needs more stories (along with more sets and extras)

Thinking back Kate Linder/Esther dodged a bullet in that supporting cast purge of 2004, I think, when Miguel, Mary, Lynne etc were shown the door. Otherwise Esther would be long gone, I wonder why she wasn't dropped at that time? The chat/flashbacks were nice but would mean more if we had have seen Esther on a more regular basis the past few years. Will she just disappear again till Xmas?

Dimitra Arliss The Doctors pre 1971 The Guding Light Yvette pre 1971

I used Search and it didn't come up... Golden Windows Mr Doran ??? oil company boss that offered Tom a job.

Requests Albert Ottenheimer Melissa Hayden Laura Harring Sarah Hyland Mia Farrow Zsa Zsa Gabor

Edge of Night ??? Sam Levene 1976

This is a slight variation on previous topics regarding couples that never happened. On the current shows, what are some pairings that you think might be interesting, in terms of chemistry and storyline potential. Y&R Diane and Ashland Nick and Sally Nate and Amani

A bit like some soaps in that some characters have been forgotten. Anyway, the show has been renewed. Having Darlene, Ben and Becky living together and Jackie married might provide some new things to explore. Really it comes down to the writing. I found things were getting pretty dire mid season, but the last few shows got better.

John Fink According to Variety he joined in Oct 65

Guiding Light Rosa Monique Citron mid 80's

Search for Tomorrow No last names Sandy, Amy Kaslo's friend at the hospital Alicia/Elicia meet Dave Wilkins at a bar 1975 Joyce friend of Cindy French 1977

Ashley and Traci reminiscing in the Abbott living room with flashbacks. Same at Society, which is obviously empty, yet there is background noise to make us think it's full to capacity. Are they ever going to have extras again?

A good summary of happenings around late 1969/early1970 During the past few weeks the suspense has been unbearable I keep gnawing my nails and wondering if Stephanie Martin is actually going to murder Nicole Travis. I really don’t think so, for somehow there is the impression that Nicole is going to win Adam Drake away from Susan Forbes and sureiy she won’t be killed before that happens. I can't be sure though. Anything can happen in Monticcello and usually does. Nicole, Stephanie. Susan and Adam all live there and are a part of probably the most dramatic and involved program on television - it’s a soap opera called "The Edge of Night" and it originates from CBS each weekday between 3:30 and 4 pm. The show has been running for a few years now and there Is always a crisis or two in various stages of development at any given time. Right now the plot centres around the threat to Nicole’s life. Nicole is the daughter of Ben Travis, a kingpin in a nation-wide loan shark operation who is presently in prison. Nicole was unaware of her father's criminal activities. She has settled in Monticello and opened a ladies' wear boutique in partnership with Susan Forbes and Adam Drake is messing around with both of them. During the past few months a mysterious stranger has been telephoning Nicole quoting Shakespeare and threatening her. More recently attempts on her life have been made, and it was during one such attempt that Nancy Karr was shot. Nancy is the wife of Mike Karr a law partner with Adam Drake. Anyhow it was recently revealed that the person menacing Nicole is none other than Stephanie Martin, who works of all places in the boutique owned by Nicole and Susan, Stephanie is a young widow who lost her husband, son and one twin daughter in a car crash awhile back, Apparently the crash somewhat deranged Stephanie so that she not only wants to kill Nicole but in the meantime had unbalanced the surviving daughter Debbie who is a patient at the Haywood Institute fur emotionally handicapped children. The plot thickens. So does the cast.Enter Liz Hillyer. a poor little rich girl who is working at the institute and who has taken a persona! interest in Debbie. The institute director Dr Jim Field doesn't realize it but he is in love with Liz. So is Vic Lamont, a lawyer and a junior member of the law firm of Karr and Drake.He has a manslaughter charge in his past but that's not important to this plot. Liz is the daughter of Orin Hillyer who is presently off somewhere on holidays with his second wife Julie Jamieson. Julie had been freed from a charge of murder just prior to the trip and Orin's first wife was killed a few seasons ago as the result of another scandal. Orin needs a holiday! Monticello police under the direction of Chief Bill Marceau have been keeping a haphazard eye on Nicole. Bill and his wife Martha are close personal friends of the Karrs. Martha works for Bill at police headquarters. Assisting Martha with the office duties is Cookie Christopher, a sister of Nancy Karr and wife of Ron. Ron used to be connected with the loan shark business but eventually helped to expose it. He also saved Lori Ann Karr, Mike’s daughter when she was kidnap[ed but that was the second last crisis. Ron is now in a new business in partnership with Duane Stewart who just happens to have once been married to Nicole but divorced Nicole to marry Pamela. He has has since found out that he is still in love with Nicole. Susan Forbes is happy about this. Ron Christopher has some connection with Stephanie Martin and it is becoming apparent that Stephanie’s husband has been killed by the loan sharks and that Ron might know something about it. While all this has been going on in the background recuperating has been Phil Capice who was brutally beaten and in a coma for months for trying to help Mike Karr break the loan shark operation.This caused all sorts of trouble between the Karrs and the Capices but it was resolved when Phil gained consciousness. Phil’s nurse Mrs Lydia Holliday really wasn’t a nurse and kept him in a weakened condition so she’d have a steady job. And then Calvin the houseboy goes and elopes with Sarah. Phil’s daughter. Anyhow within a few days or so we should know if Stephanie will fell Nicole with a bullet or with poisoned wine.... And who says television is not relevant?

This item from July 77 talks about Robert Pollock having to leave as headwriter due to health issues. Don't think I've ever seen mention of this before. Perhaps that explains the quick turnover of writers. Perhaps the Pollocks quit suddenly so Irving Elman was quickly brought in while they searched for a more permanent writer (who turned out to be Marland) It also memntions plans to go to an hour 6 months before it happened. Although the illness excuse could be just a way of covering that the Pollocks were fired. Ratings were bad at this time. Big changes for "General Hospital." Head writer Robert Mason Pollock, who gave "General Hospital" a clean bill of health when it was on the terminal list last year, will be leaving the show. Pollock has been " warned by physicians to give up his job or face up to serious eye problems. Pollock underwent surgery last year. In addition to new head writers, "General Hospital" is getting ready to expand to an hour.

Sept 84 Daytime drama gives songwriter a boost The scene was a "Cinderella Fantasy" contest, taking place on the popular daytime drama "As the World Turns." In the story, pop stars Jermaine Jackson and Whitney Houston were singing a beautiful ballad especially for the lucky winner, the guest of honor at their concert. - The stuff that fictional dreams are made -of but in real life it was a dream come true for one member of the concert audience, songwriter James Patrick Dunne, who was hearing his song, "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do," sung by one of the renowned Jacksons. and about to become a hit record almost before his eyes. It all began when the Kentucky-born Dunne made his way to Hollywood with dreams of being a songwriter. Finding the climate difficult for a newcomer, he found work instead at Paramount, composing original music " for the hit comedy series "Happy Days." When the spin-off series "Joanie Loves Chachi" was conceived, Dunne was called on to write material for the two young leads to perform on the series. "I think between the two shows," Dunne recalls, "I wrote 40 original songs. I was super-lucky to wind up working there." But the luckiest thing about Dunne's time at Paramount was meeting Millee Taggart, now principal writer (with Tom King) of "As the World Turns." Dunne and Miss Taggart worked together writing "Joanie Loves Chachi," and when the shortlived series came to an end. Miss Taggart returned to New York to begin work for "As the World Turns," bringing with her a tape of Dunne's songs. Executive producer Mary-Ellis Bunim took the tape with her to Greece when "As the World Turns" taped there earlier this year, and decided that Dunne's music could be used to highlight a very special upcoming event the wedding in June of long-time lovers Steve and Betsy on the serial. Dunne joined series regular Tonya Pinkins (who plays Heather Dalton) to sing "Nobody Loves Me Like You Do" during the touching ceremony, and requests from viewers for copies of the song have been arriving ever since. , "The ironic thing about that," reports Dunne, "is that I originally wrote that song (with lyricist Pamela Phillips) for the wedding of a friend of mine. Bill Allen (Steve Allen's son). So, Steve and Betsy's was actually the second wedding I'd sung it for. "Meanwhile, record producer Clive Davis had heard a tape of my songs. He suggested the song to Jermaine Jackson and Whitney Houston as a possible duet to record, and he suggested they premier it on 'As the World Turns." The chance of exposing their recording to the serial's giant audience was one of the main reasons for Jackson's appearance." The superstar's guest appearance was Aug. 1 and 2, and he and Miss Houston performed the song to an appreciative audience that included James Patrick Dunne.

John Gibson Life Can Be Beautiful Paul Vandenbusch Mary Jane Higby Perry Mason Eloise Kummer Arnold Grimm's Daughter Anne Goodwin

Stephen Schenkel also got the exec producer role on AMC. He made little impression on both shows.Maybe he had good people skills... July 85 SOAP SCOOP By Connie Passalacqua Syndicated Columnist For the most part, dictators of South American banana republics enjoy better reputations than executive producers of daytime soap operas. Total authority is vested in these producers, who can kill off a character (thus firing an actor) with a stroke of a pen, or completely change life in his or her soap opera dominion (both in its fictional locale and backstage at the studio) on any kind of whim. Most rule despotically, inspiring fear in their actors and writers, which inevitably surfaces on the screen and subtracts from a show's quality. Then there's Stephen Schenkel, who became executive producer of "Another World" last fall. He's been described by one of his actresses as a "teddy bear." He has noticeably improved the show, mostly because his natural warmth encourages backstage cohesiveness, and he believes in personalty nurturing his staff and cast. "I like to be supportive," he says. "I like to generate a certain amount of enthusiasm. I love actors and writers and technical people. And I like to laugh." Schenkel says that most of the factors that have led to the show's improved ratings existed before he took over. "There were well-defined characters, outstanding writers and excellent production values," he explains. "These things were in place but needed to be stimulated. There wasn't a lot of excitement. What really was missing was an adequate story. We added Gillian Spencer as a writer (she also plays Daisy on "All My Children"), who's wonderful, and it just coalesced. The writers' energy and commitment to the show began to give it an emotional intensity and some real passion within the characters." Schenkel, a former ABC programming executive who helped develop "Ryan's Hope," is a strong believer in stressing romantic and comedy elements in soap operas. "AW" is also one of the only soaps with an established group of comic characters, including Wallingford (Brent Collins) and Lily Mason (Jackee Harry). Schenkel raves about the talents of all his actors, and even has something good to say about the Brooklyn location of the show's studio, which most of his Manhattan-oriented staff loathe. "I like the people here. I like to walk down the street and feel their energies," he says. He also violated a soap opera no-no, inviting actors and writers to the same party. "Everyone got to know one another," he says. "And I didn't get any complaints about actors begging for story lines,' he says.

Donna Mills article March 81 For Donna Mills it's back to soaps "The nighttime serials are so much bigger. They allow you to do more, go more places, open up. I like that. An actor gets to act in that kind of show ..." Donna Mills By Harry Harris Inquirer TV Writer Donna Mills is completing a soap opera circle. Her first continuing TV assignments were in daytime serials "The Secret Storm" and "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing," Now she's in a prime-time variation, CBS' "Knots Landing." Her chores have changed in more ways than time of day. In the early detergent dramas she was good. Now she's bad. Until quite recently she specialized in playing victims, now she's a victimizer. "It's much more fun to be the causer of problems than the causee," the blonde actress who plays "the female J. R.," Abby Cunningham, in the "Dallas" spin-off opined recently in the Beverly Hills Hotel's Polo Lounge. "In daytime soaps," she said, "I was so sweet that I was a threat to diabetics. "In 'The Secret Storm I played the night club singer named only Rocket that's still my favorite character name. "She was killed off quick shot by mistake. "In 'Many Splendored Thing' I was Laura Donnelly, a novice nun who left the convent and got married. "Poor thing, everybody was always doing her wrong. After three years I was bored to tears." Three days after ending that agonython she was at work in her first movie as the sweet, victimized girl friend of Clint Eastwood in Play Misty for Me. Immediately after, she was cast still supersweet in her first prime-time series a short-lived 1971 half-hour NBC situation comedy, "The Good Life." Her husband was Larry Hagman, who later became the male J. R. "I haven't always been a good girl," Miss Mills said. "I've done some bad girls in movies for TV. In one, 'Superdome, I was a killer you can't be much worse than that! "I was hired by a gambling syndicate to kill some football players, to disable a Super Bowl team. "But mostly in TV movies in some way, shape or form I was a victim, always being chased by something supernatural. "I did three spooky thrillers in England with strange things chasing me. One was titled 'Someone at the Top the Stairs.' Another, about a haunted Rolls Royce I bought, was 'One Deadly Owner.' "In 'Look What's Happened to Rosemary's Baby' I was involved with a seemingly nice young man whose evil side took over. "In 'The Bait,' the pilot for a series, I was the bait a policewoman put out trap William Devane, who was more respectable a doctor when we worked together in 'Many Splendored Thing. "In 'Live Again, Die Again,' about cryogenics, I was frozen for 40 years after being a victim of rheumatic fever. When I was brought back to life my kids were older than I was." Other Mills telemovie titles: "Night of Terror," "Curse of the Black Widow," "Smash-up on Interstate 5," "Fire!" and "Hanging by a Thread." "When people started asking me, 'Can you play anything other than a victim?' I decided, 'That's enough of that I'm an actress. I can play anything.' "I started turning down jobs. I didn't work much for a year and a half. In this town, if you want to change your image, you have to tough it out "I was offered victims, victims, victims and I kept saying no no no. "Abby Cunningham appealed to me because she represents a real change of pace. ,"The producers liked the idea of casting against type. "Abby is a troublemaker, but she's not the kind that makes everyone say oh-oh when she walks into a room. "Women don't feel threatened by me. They don't have to say, 'Uh-oh, look out' I'm not some big-busted gal sashaying around, showing a lot of cleavage. "A Dolly Parton I ain't. She should do a 3-D poster. I couldn't, because what would stick out? -Not much, unfortunately. Darn! "I wasn't anxious to do another series after 'The Good Life' unless I could really get involved. A series is too hard unless you like the character and the show. "On, Hunted Lady,' a female 'The Fugitive.' That had the potential for hundreds of situations with hundreds of different looks. That would have been fun. That wouldn't have become boring. "I do believe that everything works out for the best If I had done 'The Hunted Lady' I'd probably be in a home by now, The character was in every shot The whole burden of the show would have been on my shoulders. "Starring in a series means an enormous workload, particularly for a woman. That's because of the extra time required for makeup. A woman has to look nice. " 'Knots Landing' is easier. A lot of things revolve around Abby, but there are nine regulars. "Between 'The Good Life' and 'Knots Landing' I did 21 movies for television. They don't take that long to do, and I love to work. I'm happiest when I'm real busy. "There aren't a whole lot of terrific things to do, so I'm developing my own stuff, to be produced by my own corporation, Bonaparte Productions." She giggled. Why Bonaparte? "That was the name of a police dog I had.

July 1965 San Francisco's own Susan Brown, talented young actress, has taken up witchcraft! DAUGHTER IS A WITCH! By MILDRED SCHKOEDER Mr. and Mrs. Earl Brown of St. Francis Wood have been inviting friends in this week "to meet our daughter the witch." And actress Susan Brown has made her two small nephews the heroes of their Walnut Creek neighborhood by also doing her broomstick bit across the Bay. Susan, who is certainly the prettiest witch on the West Coast, came flying up from Hollywood in her latest role as "Wanda-the-Witch" to introduce Procter and Gamble's new hair spray "Hidden Magic." The actress, a Hamlin's graduate who went on to USC. is a tall willowy brunette who insists, "I am a good witch bearing gifts.-' She has been stressing the "good" since her recent, visit to Salem, Mass., and a look at those pictures of the old Eport of witch-burning. She is also a chic witch in a wide-brimmed high peaked black hat, black chiffon frock, black peau de soie cape that flashes a pink lining when she whirls in spell-casting. It isn't easy being a witch, confided the winner of the national search for a trademark for "Hidden Magic." You have to go to magic school so you can pull all kinds of tricks on demand out of that high hat, wield a wand convincingly, and, especially, not fall off your broomstick. Hers are custom made jobs with a fresh alfalfa fringe and so far Susan's only flights have been in front of the television cameras. She talked Procter and Gamble into letting her start her helpful witchery in her hometown where "Hidden Magic" faces its biggest challenge in controlling hair soaked by the fog and teased by the wind. Susan's last professional appearance in San Francisco was a few years ago with Melvyn Douglas in the national touring company "Inherit the Wind." She also appeared in that Broadway production, several others, has an active television career. Now she is one of the principals in the day TV soap opera, "The Young Marrieds," where "I play a bitch instead of a witch." She discovered on this visit that her father, a local businessman, is a faithful viewer. "He sneaks over to the Olympic Club for the show, seen on Channel 7 at 3:30 p. m. Now some of his friends there are also hooked on it."