Paul Raven

Arline Blackburn Second Husband 1943 Young Widder Brown 1942 Front Page Farrell 1946 David Harum 1950

Radio Mirror August 1952 What Ever Happened To . . . Olive Stacy, the girl who first played the role of Connie Thayer on the television serial, The First Hundred Years? (The part is now played by - Anne Sargent.) The strain of doing a daily camera show, with the long hours of rehearsal, was too heavy for Olive, so she resigned her role. She has done nothing professionally since, and at the moment is back in her home town, Rochester, New York. This summer, Olive plans to tour the Eastern part of the United States with her sister, Frances Klute, who will be shooting scenic spots for the Eastman Kodak Company. Frances is one of their top color photographers. Incidentally, the story that Olive had married, and was expecting a baby, is untrue. This was erroneously printed in many newspaper columns about the country.

Ivor Francis Ma Perkins Joe Perkins (7years) Television Edge of Night As The World Turns both pre 1963

Barbara Montgomery Guiding Light Louise Johnson (social worker) mid 70's

There are no words.

The clip of Jo's commercial for council is a nice tribute to Mary Stuart. Nice that at that point the show was recognizing Jo/Mary and her legacy when later regimes seemed to sideline her. Interesting that they ignored her longest running marriage to Arthur, instead talking about her being a young widow and then mentioning her marriage to Tony. The Corringtons were doing a good job of integrating the old and the new, but then the show began dropping too many characters Jo marrying Martin seemed, on paper a good way of integrating her into the new family on the show but did anyone like Jo and Martin? In the scenes where she was showing off her wedding dress, Kathy and Ellie were talking about her new romance as like a fairy tale and Jo was agreeing but Mary played it like she thought the reality would be different(which it was) It seemed doomed from the start, which was unfair to Jo. I think viewers would have been happy to see her in a satisfying marriage, not without it's challenges as she tried to be a part of a new clan, but overall a good match. Instead Jo became a nag and a drag. Where and why did that all go wrong?

1939 Irna Phillips and partner Carl Wester took out an ad promoting their serials Guiding Light, Road of Life and Woman in White as well as the following Springtime and Harvest The Journey Back This Is My Life Experience of a Lifetime Star Dust Springtime and Harvest did make it to air in a test run in limited markets.

Some character names Rod Hendrickson Mary Noble, Backstage Wife Cosmo Kimball Eloise Kummer Painted Dreams Sandra Niles Joan Kay Caroline's Golden Store Mary Ellen Beckman James Meighan Romance of Helen Trent Rex Carroll Alexander Scourby Joyce Jordan Girl Interne Neil Reynolds

I can't believe that SB would expect any financial aid from 'fans' through Patreon. The guy has had steady well paid employment for years as well as 'side hustles'. If he is not financially secure by this point then that's on him. Anyway the whole Patreon thing bugs me full stop.

And Bunim, in her Afternoon TV interview at the time, said one of the changes at ATWT would be to introduce 'key lighting' to highlight faces and reduce shadows.

Yes they marriedand left Henderson Matt was played by Robert Phelps husband of Jill Farren Phelps. Karl Light and Patricia Roe played her parents.

Those 70's scenes are definitely a cut above the ATWT eps of that era. Sets look classier and better lit. Kim's apartment from that time on ATWT looks cheap and the lighting is stark. The women's makeup looks garish. It looks like Love of Life also had better production values in the 70's.

So cool to see Jo's kitchen. The 60's b&w with Marge and the color 70's with Melissa show the same kitchen with some changes in layout. Guess Jo decided to update at some point. I wonder if the changes were made when they went to color. Was that 68? Jo was married to Tony in the Melissa scenes, so he must have moved into her house. Did she stay there until she and Stu moved to Hartford House? The first meeting of Sam and Jo. This must have been 65? I think Arthur died in 66. In the Xmas credits of 77 you can see Hope Busby as Liza and Meredith Orr as Tina. Never seen before.

Jackson Chase sounds so fake. Another mystery to be solved...

Dina Abbott on Y&R in 2017. Really thought the ship had sailed on her after years of absence and plenty of times when she could have been brought back eg John and Katherine's funerals. Even though it was ultimately a waste of that character, they got several years of story from her return.

Hey Victoria, thanks for alerting us to that. Amazing find! Never before seen clips from the 60's and 70's. Just proves that there is stuff out there.

Bill Bell's Days was way campier than anything Ron could attempt. The beauty was that it worked on a number of levels so we laughed and cried at the same time. Kinda like Douglas Sirk melodramas of the 50's.

GL Roxie Shayne. Reva hung on forever and they introduced Cassie. Even Rusty got a return but Roxie was never utilised. Was she even mentioned?

Michael Leon Pilots/Proposals Young Lives 1981

With so many comings and goings over the years, changes in direction and theme, a lot of characters get lost in the shuffle, never to be seen again. Who were some characters that you were surprised to see again, considering so many are forgotten? I'd have to say Guiding Light bringing back Meta Bauer after more than 20 years was a big surprise, considering that the Bauers were no longer the leading family and she was pretty much unknown to most viewers, as well as being an older character,at a time when the emphasis was on youth.

Wiliam Podmore Young Dr Malone Mrs Hughes lawyer

Sybil Trent Hilltop House 1939

Irna Phillips Tests Her Video Ideas on Radio Audience Billboard July 29 1944 CHICAGO. July teel.-Theories which she hopes will eventually give her the secret to a successful daytime television serial of tomorrow are now being put into practice here by !rna Phillips on her three NBC dramatic shows, Today's Children, Woman in White, and Guiding Light (I to 1:45 p.m. CWT). Irna's theories, worked out with the collaboration of Carl Wester. co-owner of the shows, are built upon the premise that tomorrow's housewives ate not going to be able to watch television shows constantly and still keep a family happy. So for the past two months, during which time a studio audience was allowed to watch a murder trial plot, unfold, she hes been trying to make her shows entertaining to hear and to see. Worth this writing and production plan used successfully for television. Miss Phillips believes she can keep an audience which would only hear a show for a while and see and hear it for another while, and thus everyone-sponsor, net, audience, and husband-would be happy. Audience, 15,000 in 2 Mouths During there two months the serials have been geared to please the 15,000 who have attended the shows In NBC's studios and the listening audience, too. She has written sequences requiring action on the part of the cast. She has had the cast work without scripts part of the time. She has used simple sets. The plan has worked perfectly. Contrary to many prevailing expectations the cast required only the usual dally hour of rehearsal, even when they didn't use scripts all the time. The studio audience has been pleased. The actors have been stimulated by the demands of the technique and the presence of a studio audience and have been giving better than usual performances. Letters from listeners have attested to the last fact. Commercials are often meant for visual as well as audio Impact and demonstrations of the sponsors products have been carried out during the reading of commercials. Ed Prentiss, Master of Ceremonies weaving the three shows together, has had this task, and, according to Miss Phillips, the sponsor (General Mills) has been more than pleased with results. Three -Act Play Daily In the days of television eltsa Phillips believes her plan will give the home audience a three -act play daily. To do this she Intends to have her characters used more Interchangeably In the three shows. Therein will Ile the principal similarity to a three -act play, and In this case it will be a three -set play using a small, inexpensive cast but losing no dramatic content. Thls fall, it Is planned that the three series will be broadcast before an audience in one of Chicago's theaters. Then Miss Phillips plans to put her plans to a more stringent test. Very interesting that Irna was already preparing for television years before it became a reality.

Jim Backus Society Girl Dexter Hayes 'millionaire aviator' David Harum ?? (replacing Barry Sullivan) 1942 Big Sister 1945 Stella Dallas TV Matinee Theater ' A Family Affair'

Very cool find. also Backstage Wife 1941 Richard Janaver Thunder Over Paradise Gilbert Mcauley 1939 Mystery Man 1942 (replaced Alan Hewitt) Our Gal Sunday 1943 David Harum 1947 Lorenzo Jones 1951 Front Page Farrell 1951 Stella Dallas 1946/1952 My True Story 1955 Whispering Streets 1955