Paul Raven

Cecil Roy Monticello Party Line Sarah Peters Backstage Wife Mama Fletcher

Audrey Egan Front Page Farrell Barbara Schaffer 1951 David Harum Marjorie Mercer 1946 Stella Dallas 1942/1949 Just Plain Bill 1942 When a Girl Marries Lola (Farrell) Davis not sure if this or Davis was her maiden name. Ara Gerald Young Widder Brown 1943 Katie's Daughter Big Sister Mrs Sheldon Just Plain Bill Mrs Taylor 1949 Lora Lawton 1949 Charles 'Chuck' Webster Front Page Farrell I Love Linda Dale Dr Maxwell Light of The World Ahmed Story of Mary Marlin Red Skyler

Charlotte Stewart Also appeared on Ben Jerrod

Josh Taylor took a break (maybe to film his primetime series Ryker?) So Susan/Mary was left in the lurch I guess and they decided to drop her until Melinda Fee came on.

No, for some reason (old age?) I checked your list and missed the AW references.

Rex Robbins Another World Guiding Light

Search For Tomorrow Dick Merton ... Erik Fredrickson pre 77 As The World Turns Marty Turner...Michael Forella pre 77

Next requests Jack Scalia Charlotte Stewart Patricia Healy Ramy Zada Christopher Loomis Edge of Night pre 77 The Doctors Another World pre 83 One Life to Live pre 83

David Tom's Billy with Heather Tom's Victoria...

Valiant Lady David Winters 1955 Ann Thomas The Egg and I Ann Thomas

Casey Allen Road of Life Frank Dana Karl Swenson Joyce Jordan Dr Tiny Collins 1940 Woman of America 1944 Second Mrs Burton 1956 Five Star Matinee 'Night of the Execution' Robert Maxwell 1956 Vicki Vola Our Gal Sunday Elaine 1940

Y&R Jack Abbott playing the romance with Luan and discovering he's Keemo's dad would have had a whole different flavor with Terry Lester in the role. I didn't realize but Peter Bergman is actually 3 years younger than Lester.

Vera Allen Stella Dallas 1941 Big Sister Mrs Kelton 1943 Just Plain Bill 1945 Our Gal Sunday 1946 Rose of My Dreams 1947 We Love and Learn 1950 Lorenzo Jones Front Page Farrell My True Story Mrs Morrow/Mrs Willard both 1954 Whispering Streets 1955 Re Ryan McDonald He played the Justice of the Peace that married Marie and Neil in 1983

Well if Alan is going to interview cast of The Doctors why not watch some of the Retro episodes, read some SOD synopses and scroll through the discussion on SON or Daytime Royalty to get some insight. Not very hard to do...

Barry Jenner Another World Orderly 1972

Lindsay Bloom Young and the Restless Gloria 1979 (worked at Jonas' original club, and rival to Leslie when she was amnesiac 'Pris')

A Portia Faces Life update as of 1943 A aoap opera that outdoes its sisters, in the realm of feminine drama, is achieving something of a record. "Portia Faces Life" might be said to do that, in presenting an heroine who has to meet-not only the private heartaches (as reported by fiction writers) of a mother and a woman in love-but also the public problems of a criminal lawyer by profession. In general, Portia Blake's name and character are patterned after Shakespeare's lawyer -heroine in "The Merchant of Venice." Like her, the 20th Century Portia wants to temper justice with mercy, but radio listeners are probably more enthralled by her struggles to keep both her sweetheart and her child than by her tense courtroom battles to save people from injustice. Unlike her Shakespearean counterpart, author Mona Kent's Portia now has a war to contend with, and her current trials are bound up with Nazi spies and saboteurs. Prior to this, however, she has had many personal problems which late - come -s to her audience should know about, to understand the characters who play a prominent part in her story. First of all, there was the unhappy marriage of Walter Manning, her fiance. Society girl Arline Harrison had forced him to marry her, through his belief that this was the only way to save her life, but she had soon realized that he was till in love with Portia. She attempted to "frame" the woman lawyer, was saved from the consequences of her plot only by Portia's own legal skill, and finally divorced the husband who didn't love her. Meanwhile, Walter had gone to Europe as a foreign correspondent, and Portia threw herself into slum clearance work in Parkerstown. There she found a loyal friend in Miss Daisy, whom she took into her own home as nurse for Dickie Blake, her son by a former marriage. Unluckily, she also crossed the path of the town's corrupt "leading citizen," John Parker, who tried to pin a murder on the fighting young lawyer, in order to get rid of her. Although Portia managed to prove her innocence, the trial gave Mrs. Amelia Blake, her mother-in-law, a new excuse for trying to take Dickie away from her. In Europe, Walter was imprisoned in the dreaded concentration camp at Dachau while his Nazi double, Nicholas Veit, came to America to impersonate him. Veit tried to marry Portia, so no one would suspect his true mission sabotage-but she stumbled upon the real truth and began collecting evidence to prove his subversive activities. That is the situation leading up to the more recent episodes, as described on the following pages, together with portraits of the players who enact the principal characters. PORTIA BLAKE (played by Lucille Wall), the lawyer heroine of 'Portia Faces Life," is defending her fiance, Walter Manning, against a charge of treason. She alone knows that he is being tried for the crimes of a Nazi agent who had impersonated him. Walter had killed the impostor, in order to save Portia's life-but, in the absence of the body as evidence, Portia has been unable to prove, even to his friends, that any double ever existed WALTER MANNING (Bartlett Robinson)-a newspaper man and foreign correspondent-returned from Europe to discover that his place had been taken by a German spy who looked exactly like him. Portia alone believes that "Walter Manning" has really been two different people-and he is now being tried for treason on the very evidence she herself had collected against his double. ARLINE HARRISON (Nancy Douglas), vivacious but spoiled society belle, uses tank tactics to get what she wants. She wanted Walter, and once snared him-only to lose him. Determined that Portia shall not have him, no matter what else happens, she gave perjured testimony at his trial which might have convicted him of treason, but for Portia'r brilliant cross-examination MISS DAISY (Doris Rich) is devoted to Portia and has stood by her through trial and mistrial. She lives with her, taking care of Dickie. and acting as combined companion, nurse and housekeeper. She has been a buffer for them both, through one disaster after another, and is one of the few people on whose help the busy lawyer can rely. AMELIA BLAKE (Ethel lntropidi), mother of the widowed Portia's former husband, has long had a hidden but grim determination to take Portia's son, Dickie, away from her. Using both her frail health and her immense wealth as weapons in the unequal struggle, she has tried to win the youngster's affection away from his busy mother, while Portia was practicing law to support him BILL BAKER (Les Damon), ex -newspaper man now a captain in Army Intelligence, was once Walter's closest friend but is now his bitter enemy. Believing that Walter is guilty and that Nazi threats had been able to persuade him to shed his democratic principles rather than his skin-Bill is helping the District Attorney with the prosecution. He wants to save Portia, whom he loves devotedly, from a miserable life with a cowardly "traitor." ELBERT GALLO (Karl Swenson), long respected as a well-to-do publisher, was really the ringleader of a crew of Nazi saboteurs, exposed by Portia's investigation. Although Gallo knows that the false Walter is dead, he has resolved to drag the real Walter down into disgrace and a traitor's death with him, as a final revenge KATHY MARSH (Selena Royle) is a real friend of Portia', but, as a busy dietitian, plays rather a minor role in the lawyer's professional life. Her wholesome common sense has often been a personal comfort to Portia-and Portia is going to have need of all her friends in the next developments which she faces in the story of her dramatic life, according to present plans.

Happy New Year! Now that you're back some 2021 requests George Kennedy Michael Wilding Lindsay Bloom Sarah Cunningham Marc Singer Jim McMullen and some more radio roles Harry Bellaver Central City Fred Olsen Backstage Wife 1951 Helen Claire This Life Is Mine Nikki Blake 1944 Young Widder Brown Angela 1947 Our Gal Sunday 1948 Florence Freeman Mother In Law Joan Allen Lane Story of Mary Marlin The Open Door Lisa Arnold Pepper Young's Family Connie Davis

Susan Keller becomes the next Mary in Nov, Wesley hangs around for Xmas.

Some stats for September and October Mike appearances Sept 2,4, 9, 10, 11 Nothing in October Trish Sept 1, 11, 12, 15, 17, 23. 24 Oct 10, 14. 16, 21, 29 So Mike was established as getting an apartment and a new job then nothing while Trish is getting one or two appearances a week. Victoria Wallis is an interesting character in that she may have been set up by Laemmle as a new love interest for Mickey long term while Maggie gets involved with Kyle or just a fill in lawyer while John Clarke was off the show for whatever reason. Once Laemmle is gone so is Victoria despite Tune in Tomorrow saying she becomes Mickey's partner. John Clarke was off from Aug 26 till Oct 16 a 3 week break. Tod #1 last appearance Aug 16 Paul Keenan debuts as Tod#2 Sept 24

I agree that the twists need to be few and far between. Olivia looked stunning and I love Symone's attitude. Of this batch only Candy Muse is bothering me. I thought her outfit stood out(badly) compared to the others and the makeup/wig looked basic. As for her personality....

Jane had a hit single a duet with Bing Crosby - 'In the Cool Cool Cool of the Evening' in 1952.

Not sure why they felt to add this twist to ep 1. It got a bit repetitive and all those lip syncs diminished the impact, especially as no-one really slayed it. I wasn't super impressed with any of the outfits. My favorite would have to be Symone - just came across as naturally amusing as opposed to Tina Burner who was channelling big girl drag 101 and the quirky one who seemed to be bizarre for the sake of it. Let the music play!

Yes, if the line was there to point out Lucinda's ignorance and Jessica put her on blast, that's one thing, but it appears the script left Lucinda unchallenged so Liz nixed it.

From a 1995 SOD interview with La Hubbard 'Another time they wrote something that offended me and I checked it with Tamara (Tunie ex Jessica). Lucinda was supposed to say, 'I know what it is to be a black woman. I know because I had a hard childhood.' I said, 'What? This is insulting'. I don't know how I changed it, but I changed it, she recalls. On the other hand, concedes Hubbard, People who are writing soaps, they write so fast ,they don't always have time for the finer points.