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@jam6242 great work Thanks! William Johnstone Just Plain Bill Bright Horizon Mr Boyce Wheatena Playhouse 'Of Human Bondage' 1941 Lucy Gilman Life Begins Virginia Craig (temp replacement for sister Toni) The Guiding Light Eileen O'Brien Painted Dreams Melody Lee

Lawson Zerbe Jane Arden Pretty Kitty Kelly 1940 Aunt Jenny 1940 This Small Town My Son and I Young Dr Malone Story of Mary Marlin Adam Fury David Harum Ted Crane By Kathleen Norris 'Woman in Love' Lance Mystery Man 1941 Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters 1946 Rose of My Dreams 1947 Stella Dallas 1951 Maybe Jam can find some characters for these roles...

If I recall correctly Jill was selling the house w/o any legal right to do so. Greg found out and alerted Jill to the dangers of what she was doing. I think it was just a plot point to show how desperate Jill was, her disappointment that Andy didn't have any money to provide hence her interest when John Abbott returned and there was a chance she could finally have financial security. Liz owned the house but it was never resolved what happened to it. Now back to Soap Hoppers...

Nov 1945 Barbara Fuller Gets Claudia Role Blonde Barbara Fuller is the new Claudia in "One Man's Family" (NBC, Sundays, 2:30 p. m., WOW). For the first time in the 13 -year history of the NBC program, Writer- Producer Carlton E. Morse has brought in someone new to play one of the major roles in the story. I have been besieged with requests to bring Claudia back to "One Man's Family" ever since Kathleen Wilson, who originally played the part, left the cast two years ago," said Morse. "I have waited this long because I wanted to be sure that I had found the right person for the role. Barbara Fuller is a perfect Claudia." Miss Fuller, who also plays the part of Barry Fitzgerald's niece, Susan, in the new NBC program, "His Honor, the Barber," has been a radio actress in Chicago and New York since she was 9 years old.

Ethel Everett Remey Cimarron Tavern 1945 By Kathleen Norris 'Black Fleming' Narrator Woman of Courage Martha Jackson I day replacement for Esther Ralston Robert Clarke Whispering Streets 1958 Boris Aplon Thunder Over Paradise Bargos Judy and Jane 'Frenchman'

Harry Moses Young and the Restless Jason (5 eps when Jill tried to sell the Foster house, Jason was an interested buyer) 1982

Hall of Famer Lesley Woods Wheatena Playhouse 'The Rains Came' Fern Simon Houseboat Hannah 1941 Barry Cameron 1945

According to Soap Central Rose Kransky took a job with Doris Cameron, which would be the beginning of Right To Happiness. She returned to Five Points (and Guiding Light) when Mary Holden told her that Mrs Kransky was experiencing hardship. This indicates that the Kranskys stayed in Five Points. But according to other information they had moved next door to the Burkes on RTH. If the Kranskys stayed in Five Points but moved to a better part of town, then the Burkes also lived in Five Points yet didn't seem to figure at all in Guiding Light as the Kransky's neighbors. Still confused.

Thanks for that. It all seems very odd. I can understand the need to transition to new characters but to completely drop the whole cast? I wonder if Ned and Mary got a proper send off? Bill, do you know the names of any of the actors of the new characters? It might help me track down more info...

I don't have a definitive answer but it seems the Kranskys moved up the social ladder so maybe this area was near Five Points but had a different name? Obviously if they returned to TGL so must have been close enough to interact with the Five Points characters. I wonder what happened that allowed them to buy a better house? My other TGL questions concerns the storyline in the mid 40's. It seems the late 30's /early 40's characters were pretty much gone and there was a new minister. What were the stories around 44-46? Thanks to Bill Bauer from a few pages back. Greg, Claire, Tim, Jonathan, Nina Angie and Peter ! A whole bunch of new characters that I've never read about. I wonder how they transitioned to these new people. The new minister - Gaylord - had a wife and two children Peggy and Dick - but they are not mentioned here.

Upon further investigation it seems that TGL was dropped in 1939 and last broadcast 0ct 13 1939. Not sure why it was axed, perhaps something to do with sponsors.Will try and find out. Anyway RTH debuted the following Monday so it seems that Rose and the Kransky's presence along with others from TGL was to keep those characters alive until TGL returned, which it did a few months later in Jan 1940. I guess at that time Rose returned to TGL, which explains why she didn't have much to do on RTH. It seems that the Kranskys moved into a new neighborhood 'out of the slums' at the beginning of RTH and the Burkes were their neighbors.

Kevin McCarthy His Right to Happiness role was Lee McDonald

So Rose returned to TGL and played out the Greenman story? The timeline of TGL and RTH is confusing at this time.

This was the early cast of RTH. Seems the Burke family were prominent and the Cunninghams were brought over from TGL as well as the Kranskys. Doris,Carolyn and Bill were there also to get that story off the ground. "Right to Happiness," the serial which stemmed from Irna Phillips' "Guiding Light," exercised its privilege to change networks and is now heard on CBS. The cast remains the same as follows: Mrs. Kransky- Mignon Schreiber. Rose Kransky -Ruth Bailey. Jacob Kransky- Seymour Young. Emily Burke -Bernardine Flynn. Tom Burke -Carl Kroenke. Donald Burke -Pat Murphy. Mildred Burke -Nancy Hurdle. Terry Burke -Carlton KaDell. Kathy Burke -Lucy Gilman. Dr. Ruthledge- Arthur Peterson. Helene Cunningham -Lesley Woods. Charles Cunningham -Bill Bouchey. Bill Walker -Reese Taylor. Doris Cameron -Constance Crowder. Caroline- Laurette Fillbrandt. Grace Mead -Jane Green.

BTW Drag Race Canada was pretty basic...

Right to Happiness summary 1941. The Kranskys had vanished by this point. ALMOST everybody wants happiness; almost nobody knows quite what happiness really is. And the struggle to achieve this elusive state of bliss often has the strange effect of creating a great deal ·of unhappiness. For instance, in Ima Phillips; serial show "Right to Happiness" (heard Monday through Friday over CBS) . Here the struggle results in a muddle of love triangles which. would confound the wisest adviser to the lovelorn. First, Bill Walker (Reese Taylor), an advertising executive, falls for widow Doris Cameron (Connie Crowder), a woman's magazine editor until he meets her daughter, Carolyn (Eloise Kummer), whom he marries while Doris is away on business. Carolyn is ignorant of her mother's love for Bill, later finds life with him-he is twenty years older than she-- quite incompatible. Her real heart interest is Bill's young business associate, Dwight Kramer (Frank Behrens) . She threatens divorce, but Bill refuses to leave her. Another triangle develops as Louise Sims (Sarajane Wells), comes to live with Doris, meets Lyle Anders (Karl Weber), a young writer, to whom she becomes engaged out of pity on learning that he has only six months to live. But his recovery places her on a .spot, for she really is in love with a young lawyer named Dick Gordon (Monty Mohn). A third trend is introduced when Fred Minturn (Art Kohl), who loves Doris, is spurned because she still carries the torch for Bill Walker. All of these men and women search for one possession- happiness .

David Gothard Tale of Today Otis Cliff Denise Alexander Perry Mason Joyce Jordan Kings Row Harry Bellaver Backstage Wife 1951 Central City Fred Olsen

Tony Randall Right to Happiness Sam Roberts

Ethel Wilson Front Page Farrell 1946 Effie Palmer My Son and I 1939 By Kathleen Norris 'Woman in Love' Mother Lawrence Just Plain Bill Mrs Eeps Mercer McCloud Valiant Lady Stewart Fairbanks 1952 Hugh Marlowe Our Gal Sunday Gavin Murray Elspeth Eric Mommie and the Men 1945 Betty Caine Madame Courageous Sarah Brayden Amanda of Honeymoon Hill Joyce Jordan

The original title for Barry Cameron was Soldier Who Came Home - very topical after the war but I guess they felt it was a llttle restricting and maybe the feedback was that daytime listeners didn't want to be reminded of the war- so the title changed to Barry Cameron after the lead character.

Jackie Grimes Billy and Betty Oliver 1939

The size and detail of those sets!

Ruth Yorke Your Family and Mine Valerie Treadway Willard Waterman Woman in White Dr Wilton Thunder Over Paradise Arthur Vinson Perry Mason Sgt Dorset Alan Hewitt Valiant Lady 1946 Gale Gordon Dr Christian Roy Davis village druggist

A list of the network sponsored soaps and headwriters on air as of Feb 1946. Interesting to see some names that continued to be associated with soaps into the TV years. A Womans Life - Kathleen Norris Aunt Jenny - various Bachelors Children - Bess Flynn Backstage Wife - Elizabeth Todd Big Sister - Julian Funt Barry Cameron - Peggy Blake Stella Dallas - Helen Walpole Front Page Farrell - various Guiding Light - Irna Phillips David Harum – Mary W Reeves Lorenzo Jones – Theodore and Mathilde Ferro Joyce Jordan - H Selinger Just Plain Bill – Evelyn Hart Life Can Be Beautiful – Don Becker Carl Bixby Light of the World - Adele Seymour Lora Lawton - Jean Carroll Perry Mason - Eric Gardner Ma Perkins – L Huntley N Johnson Masquerade - Irna Philips and A Glad My True Story - Margaret Sangster Our Gal Sunday - Jean Carroll Portia Faces Life - Mona Kent Real Stories from Real Life - various Right To Happiness - John Young Road of Life -Howard Teichman Romance of Helen Trent - Martha Alexander Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters - HL Algyer Rosemary - Elaine Carrington Tena and Tim - Peggy Beckmark Today's Children - Irna Phillips When a Girl Marries - Elaine Carrington Woman in White - H Futran Valiant Lady – a Richton L Stone Woman of America - Della Decker Young Widder Brown - Elizabeth Todd Young Dr Malone - David Driscoll Pepper Young's Family - Elaine Carrington

Nancy Douglass Dangerous Roads Nadja Butler Houseboat Hannah Barbara Hughey Bill Idelson Vic n Sade Rush Gook Effie Palmer Manhattan Mother Hannah Young Dr Malone Mrs Claflin Mitzi Gould Second Husband 1946 David Gothard Painted Dreams Bill Riley Party Line David Hunter Stepmother Alex Stevens Wheatena Playhouse 'Dark Victory' Valiant Lady 1946 Helen Choate My Son and I Lucy James Brenda Curtis Myra Beldon Second Husband By Kathleen Norris Her Honor Nancy James Carrie Dean Barry Cameron 1945