Paul Raven

House Jameson Editor's Daughter 1938 Joanna Roos Joyce Jordan Miss Richards 1940 Russell Thorson The Guiding Light Jack Felzer Patricia Wheel David Harum 1950 Ned Wever Craig's Wife (proposed soap) 1946 Reese Taylor We Are Four 1938 Woman in White Tom Reynolds Just Plain Bill 1948 Stella Dallas 1948

Joan Alexander was a temp replacement for Mercedes McCambridge on This Is Nora Drake as Peggy in 1948.

From late 1938 The first show we saw was "The Guiding Light" which according to latest surveys is the most popular serial in the country! Authoress Irna Phillips certainly knows how to make the women of this country swarm to their radios. She has three script -shows on the air and all of them are up among the "Big Ten." (Other two are "The Woman in White" and "Road of Life.") Miss Phillips must certainly be the cause of plenty of stacked -up dishes and late dinners for husbands in this country. But back to "Guiding Light." The episode we witnessed had poor old Mr. Abe Kransky in bed with a very bad cold and a sinister cough. Murray Forbes sat coughing at a table some ten feet from the mike, to obtain this effect. Mr. Kransky was all wrought up because his daughter, Rose, is living as the wife of a Christian, Ellis Smith, played by Ray Johnson. Rose is ill and her husband comes a -calling on the in-laws. He knows that Rose would like to- see her parents. Mrs. Kransky (Mignon Schreiber) is inclined to forgive her daughter, but the old man raspingly proclaims that as far as he's concerned, Rose is dead. The episode ends with Mr. Kransky tottering back to bed and Mr. Smith solicitously advising Mrs. Kransky to get a doctor for her husband. Next week, "East Lynne." I'm sorry, I mean "Backstage Wife." I've treated all this in a light vein, but seriously, there's some very fine acting in the show. You've all heard Murray Forbes and Mignon Schreiber on the air. They were paired in "The Hoofinghams" as well as in "The Foxes of Flatbush." Ray Johnson is one of Chicago's finest actors. He has appeared twice in Vallee sketches, once in "Steel" and later with Paul Lukas in "Test Flight." They all do a splendid job in "The Guiding Light."

SOD reported at the time that the ghost story was created for the strike to keep the characters onscreen without actually progressing the relationship as they were unsure where the writers wanted to go.

Yes. I have always accepted the Nov 73 date without question. Digging deeper, the Dec 24 1973 summary gives no indication that Jill has a new job When Snapper gets home, he’s surprised that Jill is still awake. She’s made a hot toddy each for them. They share a tender brother-sister moment as Jill says she’s going to miss him. Snapper picks up on the fact that Jill is a little troubled. She says it’s been a kind of an emotional night for her- the fact that Snapper will be getting married, how unsettled she is with her own life, how much she misses Brent. She said she misses the Christmases they had as a family before their father left them- they didn’t have much but it was a special time. She reminds Snapper how much he idolized his father and how they would pick out the perfect tree together. She wonders if their father will come home for Christmas, yet they don’t know if he’s dead or alive. Jill observes how lucky people are to have their parents and how often they don’t stop to count their blessings. So maybe Jan 74 is correct.Does Jeanne give a date in her book?

The fact that Blade went up against the Dynasty finale spoke to the fact that CBS didn't have much faith in the project. Apart from the fact that the execution of the pilot may not have impressed TPTB, the networks had a poor track record in producing shows away from LA so there may have been built in resistance to going ahead with a series. Of course, if the ratings had been better... ABC 9pm Dynasty #2 25.9/39 10pm Hotel #5 20.8/34 CBS 9-11pm Blade in Hong Kong # 46 10.3/18

Follow Your Heart Add Marjorie Gateson The Bennetts Add Biil Grisley Three Steps to Heaven Add Ralph Friedman Roger Sullivan

Notice in these recaps that vet/supporting characters are lumped together in scenes like meeting at the disco/nurses station and given seemingly a few lines. I wonder why there was no interest in giving them any sort of storylines? The actors must have been frustrated and it might have made the show more layered. This was Monty's style and continued for years until Wes Kenney came along and fired a bunch of people that had nothing to do.

Requests Sam Wanamaker Marcus Patrick James Millhollen Erin O'Brien Moore

Directly after being killed off as Nick Reed, Quinn Redeker went to Days as Alex Marshall and then funnily enough, when Alex Marshall was hauled off to jail, within weeks he was back at Y&R as Rex. Quinn was on Y&R , n earlier in the 70's as a lawyer either in the Chris Brooks or Peggy Brooks rape trials. The Jill/Nick lookaike plot is fan fiction...

My recollection is that Brett Porter was around longer than a week and/or replaced Lester more than once. Can anyone verify?

Top Day Shows "Integrated" By Author July 1944 Marking another step toward welding "The Guiding Light," "Today's Children" and "Woman in White" more closely into a single presentation, Ed Prentiss, popular network announcer and actor, has been installed as master of ceremonies of the dramatic portion of the General Mills Hour (NBC, five -a -week, 1 p. m.). Presentation of an m.c. to air -boss the serials follows the recent inauguration of a new drama device by Irna Phillips, author of the three programs, in which characters from one show are moved through one or both of the other broadcasts. Prentiss' narrations are blended into the format of the 45- minute period as a dramatic bridge between the respective serials. Franklyn MacCormack continues as narrator -m.c. of "Hymns of All Churches," which fills the fourth portion of the hour, 11 a. m., Tuesdays through Fridays, on WOW. Miss Phillips points out the m.c. was added "to give the listener an enlarged perspective into the dramas and their characters." She adds that the narrator also opens the way to another programming technique under contemplation in which each of the three shows will he scheduled for 10 to 20 minutes, depending on plot development, rather than the traditional 15 minutes. The conjunction of several basic facts conspire to make this situation unique. There is only one author for the three dramas, one sponsor, one producing unit and one network involved. Besides that, all three plots are contemporary, urban portraits. Experiments In bringing the technique into full play, the prolific authoress pointed out that she has experimented with the character transfer to a small degree during past years. Miss Phillips also noted that one of her first major experiments was attempted in 1938, when, in terminating "Today's Children," she had the cast tune in a radio serial titled "Woman in White," the program's successor, in a script that called for the participation of both casts. "I think there are at least two good reasons why the same persons should be heard in more than one program," she said. "In the first place, each of us, as individuals, lives much more than 15 minutes a day. And so it seems logical that we should get more than a quarter -hour glimpse into the daily lives of radio characters. "Secondly, I believe that listener interest will be enhanced if the audience can hear its favorite artists in more than one program." The innovation in serial- casting already is under way. Listeners to "The Guiding Light" and "Today's Children" are well acquainted with the character of Pete Manno, portrayed by Michael Romano, not only a real life lawyer, but also an attorney in the serials. Dr. Paul Burton (Ken Griffin), leading character in the forthcoming "Woman in White" serial, already has made his appearance in "The Guiding Light," and other characters slated to make the rounds of the serials in the near future are Mrs. O'Hearn (Helen Behmillor) and Dr. Jonathan McNeill (Sidney Breese) in "The Guiding Light" and "Woman in White," and Dr. Richard Gaylord (John Barclay), who will appear in all three serials from time to time.

Fascinating stuff Thank you "Dr. John Rutledge Leaves For Army According to recent scripts of "The Guiding Light" (NBC, five -a- week, 1 p. m.), Dr. John Ruthledge, pastor of the nonsectarian church of Five Points, has accepted a commision as chaplain with the armed forces. In real life, Arthur Peterson, popular NBC actor and delineator of the Doctor Ruthledge character for the past, seven years, was inducted into the Army at Camp Grant (Ill.) on February 29. In replacing the kindly minister, Authoress Irna Phillips has written in the new character of Dr. Richard Gaylord, as portrayed by John Barclay, veteran NBC character actor.

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Maybe Brenda was reading cue cards... She was claiming illness and might have been unprepared for her scenes.

Joan Bennett Proposed soap Haven House CBS TV 1954 Nelson Omstead Romance of Helen Trent 1951 Ross Martin Front Page Farrell Chuck Nichols 1951 Road of Life 1952 Betty Winkler Story of Mary Marlin 'Chinese woman' 1939 Ann Burr Big Sister Valerie

I don't recall any mention of Liz while she was gone. Always a puzzle that Bill dropped Liz. Julianna seemed willing to work and Liz was valuable in the Kay/Jill scenario. It wasn't as if there weren't other supporting characters around during that time...

Mart Hulswit was cute as younger man but by the early 80's he was overweight and balding thus the decision to let him go. Don Stewart had aged much better, so Mike was retained at that time.

Kathy had a son Doug by David Sutton. I don't believe Kathy ever had relatives on the show although I have seen Jamie Larson referred to as her sister in law. Kathy was older than Liza when they were introduced - I think Liza was about 14/15 and Kathy early 20's? Peter Simon left first in 77 and Peter Ratray took over as Scott before Scott and Kathy left town in 78.

Re Brighter Day Alan Butler - Phillip Pine

Re First Hundred Years Mortimer Drake - Kermit Murdock

Re Valiant Lady Add James Millhollen - Tex

Lyle Sudrow Young Widder Brown 1944 Romance of Helen Trent 1946 Lora Lawton 1947 David Harum Alfred Allen 1948 Modern Romances 1949 Perry Mason Gordy Webber 1954 Five Star Matinee 'Night of the Execution' 1956 Madeline Sherwood Stella Dallas 1954 Karl Weber Midstream Neil Brooks 1939 Stepmother Gerald Lowe Lora Lawton Adam Collingswood 1944 Romance of Helen Trent 1953 Our Gal Sunday 1948 and 1958 Betty Lou Gerson Ma Perkins Laura Toohey 1942 Joan Wetmore This Life is Mine Kate Hastings Lora Lawton 1948

Muriel Bremner Lone Journey Edith Crandall (you have listed as Lonely Women) Hugh Marlowe Stella Dallas 1941 William Lee Story of Mary Marlin 'Never Fail' Fredericks Laurene Tuttle Masquerade 1947 Fran Carlon Mainstream Corinne Courtney 1940 Houseboat Hannah 1941 Young Widder Brown Norene 1943 Judy and Jane Jane When A Girl Marries Grace Conley 1951 Front Page Farrell 1952 Road of Life 1958

Hawkins Falls Eddie Simmons Marion Browne