Paul Raven

Re Marlena's brother-maybe that was a misprint and should have said father? As for Harrower over Marcus, how often have we seen new writers come in and make immediate improvements as they settle in before spiralling downwards once their own stories take shape?

Well the amnesia is an old trick that can stop the story and delay the inevitable. Flannery was a hard act to follow and by the time Forsyth was cast Laura and Bill were settled so she didn't have much to do and there was nothing for viewers to invest as they would have had Susan F still been there. Wait till Julie's burn story...

Nancy Douglass The Guiding Light Daisybelle Portia faces Life Arline Harrison Young Dr Malone 1947 My True Story 1947 Stories America Loves 'The Virginian' Molly Stark Jean Gillespie Front Page Farrell Addie Cartwell 1945 Adelaide Klein By Kathleen Norris 'The Black Fleming' Margaret the Housekeeper Just Plain Bill 1940 Lorenzo Jones Belle Jones temp replacement for Betty Garde Valiant Lady Mrs Gross Elmira Roessler Romance of Helen Trent Frances Scott Ma Perkins 1941 Caroline's Golden Store Estelle Proposed soap 'Barbara' title role

I hope Maree talks about why she has never come back to Days esp for the 50th.

Myron McCormick Johns Other Wife Roy Cuddy

Parker Fenelly Editors daughter 1938 Ellen Randolph Skipper Johns Other wife Brenda Curtis

i believe they did so Dylan should have come from that relationship if they had to give Paul another child.Maybe Cindy could have returned and flashbacks used. Instead they rewote stuff for the ridiculous Paul/Nikki/Dylan story. Y&R has all that history available and they fluck it up.

Jane Wyman Dreft Star Playhouse'Bachelor Mother' Polly Parrish Sharon Grainger Bachelors Children Marjorie Carroll Thunder Over Paradise Sunda Love Manhattan Mother Gwen Ma Perkins 1941

John Clarke (Mickey) was 34 when he started on Days in 65 and Edward Mallory (Bill) was 36 but I believe Mickey and Bill were supposed to be younger. Really the characters should have been 10 years younger when the show started. Neither actor looked particularly youthful and didn't age well so by the 70's they weren't really leading man material.

Alan Bunce David Harum Dr Kenneth Stuart

Wow -that Tammy story has never been referenced,I've seen that Tammy was on till 1970 and always wondered what place she had on the canvas all those years.

Remember that Betty Corday had really only ever worked with Bill Bell and PF Smith, so having a new headwriter with her own style and agenda may have been a little difficult on both sides, more so than expected. There was also some backstage rumblings when Susan's mom became headwriter - she addressed rumors in SOD that Julie would be favored - denied of course, but the Julie burn and Doug/Julie breakup wew penned by her mother and she was front burner.

Never seen Dick DeCoit as Mile before.He looks older than Wesley Eure. Wonder if that's why they decided to drop him?

Marion Brash Love of Life pre 1968 Augusta Dabney Aunt Jenny 1945 Whispering streets 1955 Jose Ferrer Woman of America Emilio Prieto Rex Ingram My Son and I Richard Kollmar A Woman's Life Michael West (retitled Bright Horizon) Pretty Kitty Kelly Dennis Pierce

Virginia Payne Woman in White Miss Morton/Mrs Henehan Paul Potter Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters 1946 Shepherd Strudwick Betty and Bob 1939 James Van Dyk Pretty Kitty Kelly Gink (henchman) Central City Livingston the banker Big Sister Judge Vernon 1939 Portia Faces Life 1946 Janet Logan Romance of Helen Trent Clare Brake Trouble with Marriage Linda Sargent

Had they got George R to return then maybe the story might have worked,Jacquie was popular at OLTL so wouldn't return but at least having 2 of the triangle long standing players would have been better. Tina Sloan would have been a better Alice than Linda Borgeson. Alas, it was not to be.

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Great idea!

James Van Dyk Manhattan Mother Michael Chandler The O'Neills Portia Faces Life 1946 Woman of America 1946

Francis X Bushman Story of Mary Marlin Michael Dorn Second Mrs Burton Gale Gordon Glorious One was one of the Irene Rich dramas. Second Mrs Burton Career of Alice Blair 1940 William Johnstone 'The Woman From Nowhere' Irene Rich Dramas Eric Wolfe 1944

Philip Lord Road of Life Big Bill Wiley 1944 Bachelor's Children Mr Beacham

Patsy Campbell Front Page Farrell 1944 David Harum 1944 Right to Happiness 1945 Perry Mason 1945 When A Girl Marries 1947 The Brighter day Liz Dennis (temp for Margaret Draper) 1948 My True Story 1955 Whispering Streets 1955

i remember an Afternoon TV critique commenting on how Blaine had been thrown into so many stories with different leading men over a short space of time and that despite changes in characterization and motivation Laura Malone had managed to keep some integrity and interest in Blaine throughout.

Bill Bouchey Springtime and Harvest 1940

Julie Stevens This Life is Mine Eden Channing (temp replacement for Gertrude Warner ) 1946 Just Plain Bill Barbara Kane 1951