Paul Raven

Millette Alexander (Sara GL) was once daughter in law to Oscar Hammerstein, famed musical theater legend (Oklahoma, Sound of Music, King and I etc)

Carolyn Conwell (Mary Y&R) in SOW talked about auditioning for Marlena on DOOL in 1976. She recalled 'They applauded at my audition, they loved it . But I'm not pretty. I have an off center face. She (DH) is just so photogenic. So that's why I didn't get the part. And I was just as happy, because this (the role of Mary0 is actually better for me.' Carolyn was 46 at the time of her audition, Deidre was 29 so perhaps they had a different concept for Marlena before DH was cast.

Re Paul Hecht His AMC role of Dr Weiss was 1999. Re Betty Henritze AMC Mrs Lamont was 1999.

My apologies for dissing Ms JFP - I had my timelines mixed up. She did kill off Bridget but later teams put older characters on recurring and then wrote them off. Mind you JFP did plenty of other stuff she could be criticized for - AW- ER/BCPD Blue...

Interesting that the CBS promos labelled the show The Guiding Light when the title officially changed to Guiding Light a few years before.

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When did she and Bennett divorce?

Re Rita Morley Add The Brighter Day (at least 1957)

Original cast publicity shots

For Chris B and anyone else that might be interested. Carla Borelli with George Hamilton on ABC's notorious flop 'The Survivors'

I'll post some pics of her on The Survivors in the primetime soaps thread!

Re Carla Borelli She also appeared in ABC's 'The Survivors' in 1969, in scenes with George Hamilton

Here's a shot from the pilot of the original Allison - Gyl Roland (daughter of veteran actor Gilbert Roland). How things would have been different for her and Mia had the switch not happened..

thanks for all your replies. Here's Nola #2 and #3

Speaking of Michael - Paul, I've never discovered how he came to have that name? Can someone fill me in. Thanks. Also on names how was it explained that Lew became known as Luke.?

So today we had a location shot with Sara in a park. Was that the first time TD ventured outdoors? There was no dialogue so pretty basic and cheap to tape I assume. Later there will be another extended location shoot as the climax to a big story...I wonder if there will be visuals only?

re Scarlet Hill I have Ruth played by Jill Foster (!) but IMDB has her playing Eleanor?

Re Henry Simmons Add 13 Bourbon St Fox pilot

Don't give Fishman any lines in the live ep...

I recall Afternoon TV mentioning Pat would be part of an AW spinoff with a Boston locale, tying in with Lee Paterson. can't recall how far ahead of the Texas announcement that was.

Apologies for those weekend dates. They were taken from Soap Opera Weekly, but perhaps I was hasty in jotting them down.I'm going to have to go back and check.

Of the flipside, launching all the Texas characters in the AW leadup would have made it harder for a new viewer who was not watching AW to jump into Texas on Day 1. The problem launching a 60 min show is that there are 20 plus characters and several stories being introduced. It would be better to focus on a smaller number of characters and stories for the first few weeks and then branch out. I realize that logistics wise that would be hard to do but would be beneficial to the overall launch.

Suggestions Henry Simmons Phyliis Somerville Olga Bellin Susan Pelligrino Beverly Todd

With hair to match. He and James Storm are putting the ladies to shame with their manes. The commune scenes had more extras than are ever seen at the hospital or the Medicine Man. Maybe it would have come off less cheesy if the cult members had biblical or 'ancient' names rather than Moonchild/ Far Wind etc. And dressed in simple clothing rather than flowing robes...

Previous to this he was on Search For Tomorrow as Arthur Benson, who was some sort of investor/producer in a movie based around Steve Kaslo's song 'You Can Love Again'. Yes, I think Sally Frame on AW was involved in some sort of hippie cult and then Nikki and Paul got involved with New World Commune. Can anyone think of other examples around that time?