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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.

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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."

Looks like Grodin came on Jan 65 Pittsburgh Press Tues Jan 5th 1965 SHORT SHOTS: Charles Grodln, of East Liberty, a graduate of Peabody High and the Pittsburgh Playhouse, was scheduled to make his debut as Matt Stevens in "The Young Marrieds" at 3:30 p. m. today on Channel4. Grodin, 29, graduated from Peabody in 1953. His mother, Mrs. Lena Grodln, says she "can't make heads nor tails of the series."

Watching the 66 episodes has ne wondering about Floy Dean/Laura. I guess it was Bill Bell who was unhappy with her portrayal? Ted Corday had hired her on Morningstar and moved her to Days so obviously happy with her. But Bill must have thought that long term with the story he had in mind, she was not suitable. They lucked out with Susan Flannery. Floy Dean was on Days, Morningstar and Young Marrieds over the course of a few years and hardly worked after that.

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October 1970 Once Despised Soap Opera Actors' Refuge By Harold Heffernan Hollywood (NANA)- Paul Lukather firmly believes that the day Is fast upon us when some of the biggest stars In motion pictures and television will be battling for roles in the once despised soap operas. "It certainly beats standing in line at the local unemployment office," the rugged-looking star of the NBC daytime serial "Bright Promise," said, "and that's where most actors seem to be these days, Including some very well known faces." A former high school teacher and economy major, Paul rat tles off statistics like a Gatling gun to prove that the acting "game" Isn't very funny these days. "There's about 70 per cent unemployment in movies and about 50 in television (he's actually low on both counts), Paul points out. : "Stars like Dick Van Dyke, Andy Griffith, Mary Tyler Moore and Vince Edwards, who were first tops on TV and then tried films, are coming back to their old outlets. They're just not making that many movies and when they do, they usually do them somewhere else besides Hollywood." Another reason he thinks more stars will be attracted to the "soapers" is because many of the scripts and story lines are "a hell of a lot more interesting than most of the movies they are making today." Grunt And Look Beat "I'm not putting any special actors down," he states, "but it's fairly easy in this day and age to play a bearded, barefoot rebel with a cause and a marijuana joint in your hand. I don't see such roles as particularly challenging because they're so way out that they don't require any acting muscles. You just grunt a lot and look beat." Paul believes that his part In "Bright Promises," that of "Prof. Bill Ferguson," is much more demanding than playing an "Easy Rider" hippie or a "Hell's Angels" motorcycle tough. "They are too colorful, too easy to capture," he said. "I have to play a rather ordinary guy wearing a standard suit who gets emotionally involved with various people. It s tough to convey a character like that to an audience. You have to make him totally believable. Paul has had his ups and downs on the series. He got one of his students pregnant, his wife left him, he was charged with murder, he was physically assaulted, he went bankrupt, his friends deserted him and he was bitten by a mad dog. "And that was only for one week!" he grinned. "I don't know what's in store for me, one outing to the next, because sometimes we. only get the scripts three days before the episode is taped. "I remember that once I got my script the day before because of some crisis or another in the front office. I stayed up all night and read it. By some miracle, we got the segment in one shooting. Better Disciplined It Is incidents like that which strengthen his theory that actors in soap operas are often better and more disciplined than those in movies or on nighttime TV shows. He has played Shakespeare, Shaw and Ibsen in repertory, thinks Western roles are the easiest to play because the characters are usually one dimension. "You play In a Western serial for a while and you become the character In the eyes of the public," he explained. "People don't think of Lome Green, they think of 'Ben Cartwright,' they don't see Jim Arness. They see 'Matt Dillon.' And those two are mighty fine performers." At the moment Paul is taking singing lessons, even though he has starred in the California production of "Funny Girl" and "Your Own Thing." "The way things are going for 'Bill' on the show," he winked, "There might come a time when I'll really have to sing for my supper

Re Doris Rich A 1960 article mentions "She also had a long run in the daily video serialization of "The Secret Storm." So either the Judge Foster role was not 1966 or she had an earlier role on SS

A newspaper press release at the time mentions Dick Trask in the role of Jerry. It also mentions the show being titled 'Bright Star' which then changed to 'The Storm Within' and then shortly before airing to 'The Secret Storm" I think 'The Secret Storm' is the best of those three THE SECRET STORM, DAYTIME DRAMA SERIES DEBUTS FEB. 1 The Secret Storm, new daytime serial, makes its debut Monday, Feb. 1 (CBS Television, Mon.-thru-Fri., 3:15-3:30 p.m.) (It was previously announced under the title The Bright Star). The series dramatizes the problems of an average family. Peter Hobbs plays Peter Ames, father of three children who are portrayed by Jean Mowry, as 18-year-old Susan; Dick Trask, as 14-year-old Jerry, and Jada Rowland as Amy, 10. Haila Stoddard, noted television, stage and radio actress, plays Pauline Harris, Peters sister-in-law. Russell Hicks, now featured on Broadway In The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, and Marjorie Gateson, former lead on One Mans Family, portray Mr. and Mrs. Tyrell, Peters in-laws. The program is supervised by Roy Winsor and produced by Richard Dunn. Gloria Monty, of CBS Television will direct.

The covers would look much better if instead of the crappy photo shopping, they put individuals or couples in their own box

Wendy Drew Young Dr Malone 13 yr old daughter of Dr Malone (Jill?) 1954

Excellent idea. Given the fact that Knots was developed before Dallas, isn't it the case that Gary and Val were not apart of the original concept? Was it always 4 couples and one couple were rewritten to be Gary and Val? Could that need to accommodate the Ewings have been the cause of Ginger and Kenny being somewhat sidelined? They didn't even appear in a couple of early episodes which seems strange for a new show wanting to establish the characters.

Kyle's outfit looks wrong to me. The bowtie is oversized and the black pants look cheap and ill fitting.

80's Days in full swing- murders, undercover amateurs, eccentric ladies with lions... I wonder what the few 70's actors remaining thought of this 'light hearted 'approach?

Jay Meredith Edge of Night ??? pre 1958

Dorothy Blackburn Young Dr Malone Nurse

November 1967 Jeffrey Lynn JoinThe Secret Storm Jeffrey Lynn, stage, screen and television actor, has joined the cast of "The Secret Storm," daytime drama series in color Monday through Friday at 2 p.m. on Channel 5. . Starting Thursday, Nov. 30, he will create the running role of Charles Clemens, a wealthy newspaper publisher, whose residence in' the fictional city of Woodbridge, N.Y., with his daughter and a mentally disturbed granddaughter. Lynn is a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Bates College, Maine. - He began his showbusiness career at the famed Barter Theater in Virginia. Later he joined the legendary "stock company" at Warner ' Brothers Studio, where he made his mark in "Four Daughters," "The Fighting 69th;" "Yes, My Darling Daughter "Million - Dollar Baby" and many other films. ". During World .War II Lynn saw service with the Army Air Force in Africa, Italy and Austria. Honorably discharged with the rank of captain, he resumed his. film career, appearing in "A Letter to Three Wives," 'Up Front" and "Butterfield 8."" He has a leading role in the current "Tony Rome," starring Frank Sinatra. November 1969 Meet Jeffrey Lynn Soaps brought him back By STAN MAYS Becausee thlngs were a little slow at the time flt e stream, and because he had an urge at the time to jointhe mainstream, actor Jeffrey Lynn, while riding the subway, became interested in a book about the real estate business. Lynn has made his share of mistakes ("In the early '50s I moved east when TV was moving west. I had no income from IV work. ) But he was to prove something to himself; he could do something else. He took the real estate test and became an agent. Ironically, since returning to California with his wife and children, to work with a firm in the San Fernando Valley, his acting career has picked up again. He gives thanks that his former agent is now in an executive post at Universal, and that he has an indulgent boss at the real estate firm. Between selling homes Lynn has worked in "The Outsider," "Ironside" and next will be seen in "Crisis," a doctors segment of "The Bold Ones" for NBC-TV. He plays a heart patient who almost dies because of a revolutionary operation performed by a flamboyant doctor. "I have to. credit a soap opera for bringing me back to TV," confesses Lynn, who, after acting in TV during the early aays, spent most of his time touring in summer stock and road shows like "Mary, Mary" and "Two for the Seesaw." "It was a great training ground for a year playing a newspaper publisher in 'Secret Storm.' " The thought brought to mind the luxury of time afforded actors working in movies years ago as opposed to TV's hurry-up pace. ' "I remember when we were making 'The Fighting 69th,' " he said. "We were all in a huge bomb crater facing the Ger mans. I was playing a green soldier in a scene with Humphrey Bogart. (He laughed, recalling how Jimmy Cagney nudged him, saying 'You'e on your own with Bogey, kid'). "Well, I supposedly get a young enemy soldier in my sights. But I can't shoot him. 'He can't be more than 16,' I say. Whereupon Bogey shoots him and mutters something. It didn't sound right. They tried another line, and that was no good. We sat around that pit an hour something you'd never do in TV while they worked on one line. They finally came up with one of Bogey's most memorable lines: 'He'll never be 17.' " Now in his late 50s, Lynn is grateful his career took the course it did: "When I was a kid in Rhode Island starting out in summer stock I asked an actor what my chances were. 'You won't starve,' he told me. And that was the only assurance I got." With Joan Crawford during her Secret Storm guest stint

Re Edmon Ryan (Mossbarger) An obit (1984) states he spent a year on Search for Tomorrow in the mid 50's.

Jan 87 BURNELL SITTERLY, 44, actor who starred as Dr. Mike Powers on the soap opera The Doctors in the 1970s, killed himself in a friend's home, police said. The body of Sitterly was found Monday hanging off an interior balcony in the living room with the rope tied to an upstairs door knot). He was depressed about his acting career and had spent the past few weeks visiting friends in Cape Cod, New York and Chicago, said Gerald Mast, in whose home the actor's body was found. Sitterly was having difficulty finding serious roles and was searching for "people interested in the art of theater," Mast said. Sitterly apparently killed himself after an interview at the Northlight Repertory Theater In north suburban Evanston. Sitterly began his acting career in a Chicago hotel lounge in 1965 and later appeared in In Praise of Love on Broadway with Rex Harrison and Julie Harris. He appeared on The Doctors from 1970 to 1976.

Don't know how or why ended up working at Jabot. Seems an odd choice seeing as how that company has been devalued onscreen in favor of the media giants. We never see Mariah at work. Post wedding, I wonder what stories they will give the newlyweds? Some career stuff for Tessa? Baby issues? Whatever, it will be C level...

Jam, you are amazing! So finding out that Julie was a lawyer, it seems likely that she popped up again in 65 in that role.