Paul Raven

Found one actor Ricky Lawrence - Robert Ellis

No .Y&R was his first soap and he's stayed on for 40 years so hardly hard the chance to do another. Same goes for most performers who played the same role for years eg Suzanne Rogers, Erika Slezak,Jeanne Cooper etc

June 1965 Actress Hasnt Changed, Remains Typical Teenager Jacqueline Courtney may play one of the featured roles on a top-rated daytime television show with considerable assurance and aplomb, but off-camera she has all the same typical reactions to the problems, frustrations, and hopes as any average American teenager. Jackie, 18, who regularly appears in the role of Alice Matthews on Another World" (weekdays at 3:00 p.m.) has a nightly curfew, hates vegetables, wants her own telephone, wishes she'd be permitted free use of her new sportscar, and just loves" rock-'n-roll music. The blonde, blue-eyed actress who entered showbusiness at the age of four, is under strict instructions from her mother to be home by 12:30 a.m. and that includes Saturday nights. And just to be sure that Jackie keeps to this schedule, her mother has not given Jackie a key to the house. But Jackie is not at all bitter about the restrictions placed upon her at home. As she puts it: I know my parents only want what is best for me, but what they cant understand as most parents cannot is that their little baby has grown up. PLEA FOR PHONE Like some teenagers, Jackie hates all varieties of vegetables and milk. As for the telephone a staple commodity and necessity of life" to any teenager Jackie has a problem. Although she has her own room, she has been unsuccessful in her arguments for a private phone. She confides that she has even enlisted the services of Doris Quinlan, producer of Another World," to help convince her mother that a phone is needed, but to no avail. Jackie's the proud owner of a brand new, white sportscar, but is prohibited from driving further than her own neighborhood in East Orange, N.J. For me, that's a tough situation," she says, because I love to really move in a car, and that's hard to do when you can only drive in a radius of a few blocks." DIGS BRITISH SOUND When it comes to music, Jackie is just nuts" about the Beatles, and has all their records at home. One of her greatest ambitions is to meet Paul McCartney of the group. She also likes the Dave Clark Five and Herman's Hermits. Jackie has a boyfriend who lives in nearby South Orange, but shes quick to add that hes not at all impressed" by her featured role on Another World. Although she doesn't contemplate marriage within the next five years, Jackie says that when she does take the plunge, shell quit showbusiness. As the saying goes," she points out, a woman's place is at home not in a TV studio." TOUGH SCHEDULE Although shes in many ways similar to the average teenager, Jackie's life has one big difference. As a featured actress on Another World," she must work a ten-hour day beginning with rehearsal at 10:30 in the morning, and ending with rehearsal for the next days show at 6:30 p.m. On top of that, Jackie spends two nights a week working for a degree in psychology at Upsala College. In the few extra moments of spare time she can find, Jackie loves to ride horseback and go out dancing. Shes also an avid football and basketball fan. Jackies professional career dates back to 1951, when she appeared on The Story Hour" over WAAT in Newark. She recalls that in her stage debut she appeared as the Good Ship Lolly-pop, singing and dancing in a candy-cane costume. She also recalls that at the time she was literally covered with curls I hated them, but my mom felt I should look like Shirley Temple, and look like Shirley Temple I did until I got to the fifth grade.

Some requests Jeanne Lange Phillip Moon David Mason Daniels Frank Pacelli Thanks!

Jason Alexander was on Ryan's Hope, probably a one day thing.

Thanks for the Kalember info. Fitchner was on Loving.

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 27. - Carlton E. Morse is going to hypo One Man's Family when it switches over from NBC to the Blue, January 30, by injecting more action. He feels that this will help keep the old listeners who will follow the show to the Blue, but will also keep the new crop of new dial -twisters tuned into the show. At first, Morse was skeptical about fooling around with the airer, feeling that his old listeners might resent a faster pace for Family, which has been on more or less of an even keel for years. However, he has already injected a murder mystery angle into the show, launching it on last week's program. Larger Cast Set Morse will also have a larger cast than he has used before. He won't attempt to add permanent characters to the show. but will use different voices from week to week. He feels this will give greater variety and allow regular cast members more play on the emotional scenes. Outside of establishing theme, Morse has never gone much for music on Family. When it shifts to the Blue, however, he will try and set the mood of the show with special music, utilizing bridges throughout the script.

Alex Donelly (Diane Jenkins Y&R) Deborah Mullowney (Sloane Capitol) Patricia Kalember (Merrill Loving)

Jerry Coffey Soap Opera Tells Secrets June 1972 This department’s recent New York visit turned up practically everything there is to know about soap opera except what fans are most interested in :whats going to happen next. Despite intense grilling by scores of reporters, the producers. writers and cast members generally held firm against revealing future plot developments. Oddly enough the least secretive group was from “The Secret Storm” — perhaps because that serial is especially concerned with rebuilding its audience and its image. “Secret Storm” is one of the oldest daytime dramas — it’s in its 18th year on CBS — but recently the show has been undergoing rather drastic revisions designed says producer Joe Manetta to bring in “new blood a more contemporary focus more modern attitudes” Even though the transition is being made gradually over a period of months and already has resulted in a ratings boost the program’s mail indicates that the changes are unsettling to a number of long-time viewers.They are scarcely less so for the people charged with putting them into effect — particularly head writer Frances Rickett who assumed the job several months ago with the assignment to wind up a “grim” plot situation as quickly as possible and chart a new course for the serial FRESH START HARD WITH SORDID PAST The trouble with giving the program a fresh start Miss Rickett noted was that the established characters had long eventful — and occasionally sordid — histories that kept getting in the way. For instance there’s Amy Ames Britton who literally grew up on the old “Secret Storm” and is a major holdover character — For purposes of Amy’s current romance and the “new woman” image being constructed for her it was important to Miss Rickett that the character’s previous marital record be downplayed as much as possible.So imagine her chagrin when in a routine on-the-air dialogue exchange between two other characters one was heard to remark casually as she was supposed to that yes Amy had been married before. Then she added unthinkingly: “ three times” The writer also has her work cut out in transforming the character of tycoon-governor candidate Dan Kincaid from a cynical hypocrite deeply involved with the syndicate drug traffic into a conscience-stricken good guy only faintly tainted by past associations Sometimes casting changes have to be made to go along with character alternations “Joanne Morrison” originally brought on for a brief stint as a teen-age dope victim developed into a major continuing character in the new scheme but the girl who played her was considered too young for the romantic entanglements envisioned for the role so a new Joanna was hired (“And she’s too old” Miss Rickett says) SERIAL STARTS YOUTH MOVEMENT In the foreseeable future the serial will be built around the youthful Joanna.the durable Amy (now played by Lynne Adams) and the alluring social-climbing Belle Britton who joined the show in 1968 and was supposed to die shortly thereafter She was miraculously cured however and has been a prime antagonist since. Lately though even Belle (Marla Adams) has shown signs of mellowing and in the press interviews she was flashing a diamond that would make Liz Taylor envious (“courtesy of the prop department") a wedding bauble from good new Dan. They are to be wed “secretly” in a sequence of episodes beginning Monday June 19 “If you don’t think daytime drama can be funny on purpose just watch these shows” Marla Adams (no relation to Lynne) suggested Amy’s love life is about to intensify too. Lynne was explaining to reporters that her character is going with Dan Kincaid’s son Kevin but not very far. “That’s about to change” Miss Rickett put in “You and Kevin are going to start living together” “We are?” Lynn seemed genuinely surprised but agreeable to the idea.

Daytime Dial by Lynda Hirsch Be grateful 'Somerset' lasted as long as it did! It was bound to happen. The minute NBC confirmed that "Somerset" would air its final chapter on Dec. 31. the fans started writing. Most letters voiced the same plea. "How can we save 'Somerset'?' You can't. Just be glad that it lasted six years. Despite efforts of talented executive producer, Lyle B. Hill, dedicated staff and good actors, from the moment Somerset started on March 30, 1970, it was suffering from a terminal illness only saved by miraculous remissions from time to time. Just when you thought, "This has got to go off the air," someone would breathe life into the ailing story line. In the beginning it was decided to make Somerset a spin-off of the highly popular "Another World." Two of Another World's popular characters, Sam and Lahoma Lucas, left Bay City to start life anew in the nearby hamlet of Somerset. But the biggest audience pull was to be the return of soap opera darling Carol Roux. As Missy Matthews oh Another World, Carol had a huge following. When the actress decided to give up the serial for marriage and West Coast life, producers decided to write Missy off in a blissfully happpy sunset just in case Carol might return someday. When Carol agreed to star in Somerset, everyone felt a sure winner was at hand. Unfortunately for Somerset, Carol's permanent return to daytime drama was more like a month's vacation. According to a Somerset castmate, "Carol was a dynamite actress and a pretty girl, but she had a lot of hangups. Every week she came down with supposed illnesses. It was a drain on the show's time. Everyone tried, including Carol, but it just didn't work out." With the Missy Matthews character gone, a focal point of the show was lost as well as several characters who had no place to go without Missy. All series, especially new ones, need regular characters an audience can grow to love, hate and feel sorry for. Somerset has always seemed like one giant transient hotel. In the first year characters from Another World and Somerset kept switching towns. Just when Somerset would hit on an intriguing character, he would be sent to Another World as in the case of Rachel's father Gerald Davis and the popular Robert Delaney. All the constant shuttling of characters from show to show weakened Somerset, so it decided to sever all connnections with Another World and strike out on its own. Deciding to try a new tack, the show followed "Edge of Night's" successful mystery formula. Even though Henry Slesar, an Emmy-award-winning writer of Edge, took over scripting duties for a time. Somerset never had the same whodunit flavor. Instead of fully using a mystery tone, the show tried to keep an air of romance and only succeeded in confusing everyone. Jordan Charney (presently toiling on "One Life to Live" as Vince Wolck) created the character of Sam Lucas on Another World and was as confused as anybody. "On Another World, Sam was a great character. He was a garage mechanic who had a prison record. He worked hard and went to school, eventually becoming a lawyer. Then Sam went to Somerset and fell apart. "In the last six months that I played Sam," Jordan continues, "Sam had a different social problem every week. One week he was a gambler, the next an alcoholic, then a womanizer, a wife beater and neglectful father. Sam's true character was lost sight of and I don't think anybody cared what happened to him anymore." Whenever Somerset hit a story line snag, everyone was promised an exciting new plot line and improved writing. But Somerset never came through. For example, an interesting May-December love story between Ellen Grant and student Dale Robinson was dropped in the middle of the plot and with it a powerhouse actor, Jameson Parker. One studio bigwig was aghast when Jameson was let go for a lack of story line. "You make a story line for someone like that." says the official. Obviously they didn't. Instead Somerset came up with an offensive, ridiculous script and made three name performers look like fools. Certainly the show scored a coup when it signed Molly Picon, Mae Questel and Louis Jacobi all big name Broadway stars to play three elderly Jewish citizens of Somerset. During one show. Miss Picon spent three minutes talking about the high price of potatoes following with a two-minute speech on meat prices. Almost every sentence ended with "oy vey." Maybe the "oy vey" was the actress's personal opinion of the degrading script . The biggest gaffe, however, was when one of the ladies, concerned about finding a kosher butcher in the neighbornood, had a Christmas wreath on her door. . When Somerset calls it a day next week, not one of the original 17 characters will be around. While most serials constantly revamp their cast of characters, all of them leave a few friendly faces around. ' Lately, watching Somerset was like watching a magic show first you saw them, then you didn't. It's doubtful we'll know what happened to Ellen,Dale,Jill, David, and the rest. When the network was asked what happened to certain characters and performers, they answered with the highly curious "They're still in town, just not on the air." In a soap opera if you're not on the air, you're not in town. A sad fact Somerset fans will learn after Dec. 31.

Horace Braham We Are Always Young Rosemary Dr Jim Carter Society Girl Second Husband The Goldbergs Frank Behrens Caroline's Golden Store Theodore'Ted' Collins Romance of Helen Trent 1940 Backstage Wife 1941 Today's Children 1946 David Harum 1946 Whispering Streets 1955 Mary Jane Higby Thanks for Tomorrow Five Star Matinee 'Small Town Girl' Emily Larkin 1955 Esther Ralston Our Gal Sunday Marcella Hudnall 1940

Valiant Lady Eda Heinemann was on for 9 months in 1959

Remak Ramsey Add OLTL

Re The Brighter Day A character mentioned in 1957 blurb Barney Lake and in 1958 Paul Bannister And Eliot Fraser was played by John Heath

As of Feb 44 Mary Rutledge Holden was still on The Guiding Light according to newspaper promos.

Sarajane Wells Woman in White Gladys GREY Constance Crowder Road of Life 1944 Right to Happiness Doris Cameron Ma Perkins Mrs Farnum Springtime and Harvest (Irna Phillips soap that played on limited stations as a test run)

James Monks Pepper Young's Family Carter Trent 1942 Light of the World Jeremiah 1945 Perry Mason 1946

Sigourney Weaver (Avis Somerset) Anne Marie Martin (Gwen Davies DOOL) Robyn Bernard (Terry O'Connor GH)

Rosemary Rice Aunt Jenny 1949

Check Soaphoppers thread. Way more info than IMDB!

Henry Simmons was on OLTL Sherry Mathis was a one soap only gal. Also, Kristen Marie (Cheryl AW) Leann Hunley (Anna DOOL) John Delancie (Eugene DOOL) Arleen Sorkin (CalliopeDOOL)

Louan Gideon Liza SFT Eric Morgan Stuart Chris Madison AW Julie Osburn Kathleen McKinnon AW Sally Spencer MJ McKinnon AW

Broadcasting Jan 84 It started 18 months ago as a 'radical idea which nobody in this country has ever tried." That idea -a first -run prime time serial drama, or soap opera -now appears to have come to fruition. Richard Robertson, senior vice president of sales and marketing at Telepictures Corp., announced that Rituals, its joint venture with Metromedia to produce a new serial drama for prime time and prime access, was now a firm go. Metromedia's decision to put Rituals in its prime time lineup for next fall has also "triggered commitments" from other stations, Robertson said, including stations in the Outlet, Gannett, Multimedia and Chronicle groups. Robertson said the station lineup at present represents 50% coverage of NTI households. Production costs are substantial: Start-up, development and first -year production expenses will exceed $14 million. Rituals will probably debut either Sept. 10 or Sopt. 17 "to get a jump on the networks," Robertson said. Dick Block, executive vice president of Metromedia, said that group's independent stations will probably air Rituals between 8 and 9 p.m. Metromedia's ABC affiliate in Boston, wcvB -N will air it at 4 p.m. following General Hospital. Historically, nightly serial dramas have not been successful on American television, but Robertson pointed out that Latin America, Australia and the U.K. all have nightly serials that dominate their time periods. And if Rituals proves successful, Robertson added, the program "could expand to an hour."

Before its radio premiere The Guiding Light was titled The Good Samaritan.

Melody had a gig on GH as Laura's baby sitter. GL Ellen Demming (Meta Bauer) Lynne Adams (Leslie Bauer)