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Paul Raven

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Everything posted by Paul Raven

  1. Apologies if this is already listed. ATWT David Norton as Jamie, Betsy's boyfriend 1979
  2. Is there any way of accessing current TD eps as has been the case until recently?
  3. Re Lilyan Chauvin - she played Dina's maid in 1984.
  4. Lynn Benesch (Meredith Lord Wolek OLTL) auditioned for the role of Linda Anderson on DOOL that went to Elaine Princi.
  5. Despite her online reputation re her onscreen output, JFP always seems to get compliments from actors/writers etc and it doesn't come across as insincere - so the woman must have done something right over the years!
  6. Re Lilyan Chauvin She also had a cameo as Dina Mergeron's maid. Don't believe this would be the Natalie character.
  7. Re Loving Add Peter Prescott played by Jeff Keller Re The Verdict Is Yours Add Eileen Letchworth
  8. Re The Bennetts Bert Wells was played by Jim Andelin Mike Bennett was the name of the 13 yr old son and played by Jerry Garvey
  9. Found some new roles for these Hoppers from the ABC Daytime series 'Day in Court'. Week of 23rd Nov 1964 Lynne Loring - Ginnie Collins June Dayton - Margaret Defoe Mark Roberts - Harris
  10. Re Barnard Hughes According to a newspaper item he was on Secret Storm in October 56, so 1956 at least and possibly 57?
  11. Don MacLaughlin accepted recurring status it seems and continued to appear, although not very often .
  12. Wagner out of a job 24th April 1981 By MICHAEL KUCHWARA Associated Press Writer NEW YORK (AP) - She’s poured more cups of coffee and listened to more troubles than Mrs. Olsen and Ann Landers combined, but after 25 years of playing Nancy Hughes on the CBS soap opera, ‘‘As The World Turns,” Helen Wagner is out of a job. “I am not retiring,” declared Miss Wagner, who, a CBS spokesman said, left the show last month because she and the network “could not come to a contractual agreement.” “I had nothing whatsoever to do anymore,” the actress said recently in describing the gradual elimination of Nancy from the show she had one line in three months and her decision to leave. “There just hasn’t been anything to Nancy’s character,” Miss Wagner said. “Anybody could read the lines I’ve been giv en. I haven’t been in the kitchen for a year and a half.” Soap opera buffs know that Nancy’s kitchen, located in that mythical Midwest community of Oakdale, has been an important part of the show since its debut April 2,1956. It’s where problems involving the Hughes and Lowell clans were discussed, and then discussed some more. “World Turns" has always been the most traditional of soap operas, celebrating the family, of which Nancy, and her husband Chris, played by Don MacLaughlin, were the anchors. It was the show which celebrated the Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Christmas. And for nearly 20 years, it was No. 1, generating huge ratings and profits for CBS and its owner, Procter & Gamble Productions. With the death in 1974 of its creator and head writer, Irna Phillips, and the gradual success of youth-oriented soaps on ABC, “World Turns” slipped in the ratings. It’s still among the five top-rated soaps, CBS said, but a turnover of writers and characters changed the tone of the show. The “World” of today is much sexier and turns at a faster pace, blurring characters, especially the newer ones who are in f 'd out of the show within six months. “Writing an hour show, five days a week, 52 weeks a year is very, very difficult," Miss Wagner said. “To make all the little details fit is very demanding. "But if you’re going to write World Turns,’ you’re going to have to do that. It’s about the details of people’s lives and their interaction rather than the thrust of the story. “I am very much aware that as the years have gone by, the character must change,” Miss Wagner said. “I don’t expect to be used in the same way as I was in the beginning (of the show). "But I see no reason not to involve Chris and Nancy in the kinds of situations that their present age (early 60s) would be,” she said. "Don and 1 have never objected to being aged as we went along.” Her husband and manager, Robert Willey, said, “Helen and Don MacLaughlin were the only happily married people on the air. As far as the writer's job is concerned, writing a happy marriage is incredibly hard to do.” The character of Nancy Hughes has not been written out of the show, Miss Wagner said. She is still there for writers to tap in any future episodes. “I have never really criticized what the authors have wanted to do," she said. "What I have criticized is what they wanted to lose or not bother with. They should use what background material they have inherited. It’s a loss of a great treasure if they don’t.”
  13. Re SFT Harry Goz was on for 9 weeks as Phil Strickland
  14. NEW YORK 16th August 1967 The sign in the restaurant read: “No service tin 3:30. Ralph is on television.” The waiters and a few customers gathered around the small screen to watch Ralph Oliva in his role on NBC-TV’s daytime serial, “Another World.” He was playing a waiter and doing it superbly. And why not? When he isn’t engaged in his important and continuing role in “Another World” Oliva is one of the waiters in that restaurant. The other day Oliva paused on his way to set up the tables for lunch in his present offscreen job to discuss his unusual double life—a waiter in reality and in the fantasy world of television. He said it happened like this: “I was a clarinettist in the Glenn Miller orchestra during the war but I gave up music to study acting. It’s tough for an unknown and I needed a source of income that wouldn’t take hours a day of practice. A friend suggested being a waiter. “I said I had never done any waiting on tables. Said my friend ‘You’re an actor aren’t you? Act like a waiter!’ So I went into a restaurant and asked for a job, acting ail the time. I must have given a believable performance because they gave me a job and I’ve been a waiter ever since, combining it with my acting career. “I used to send cards to agents reading: T’m appearing at Blank’s Restaurant, Mondays through Fridays. Come and see me.’ When the role of Charley the waiter came up in ‘Another World’ a casting director remembered my practical knowledge of the mechanics of the role and sent for me.” Oliva’s television part calls for considerable acting outside the prop restaurant. Since he has thus been gainfully employed for a year he was asked why he still felt it necessary to wait on tables in real life. “You can never have enough security,” he said. “Besides being a waiter give you fantastic experience in meeting people. You can study typists in tea rooms or tycoons in ‘The Four Seasons.’ Also I’ve always found restaurant owners considerate about time off. In one place, after filming all night, I fell asleep in the waiters room. The other waiters covered for me. “When the owner found me he complained to the union representative who said ‘lf Ralph makes it you’ll be able to say you helped a star.’ The owner gave in but grumbled: ‘I wish someone would pay me for sleeping.’ The world of daytime television is a surprising one. Oliva finds himself in demand by autograph collectors, even schoolgirls, and sometimes pauses, while serving the soup or fish, to scribble his name on a menu. “Not long ago I was working at the Forest Hills Tennis Club while the Monkees were out there.” he said. “It sounds ridiculous but kids were yelling ‘There’s Charley from Another World’ and I think I signed more autographs than the Monkees. Me, the waiter.”
  15. In mid 1966 Elizabeth Hubbard and David O'Brien both appeared in the Broadway play 'A Time for Singing', She was already on TD by that stage.
  16. Re Conard Fowkes A bio for him in a 1965 play lists ATWT in his credits after Kitty Foyle, so he appeared before his Don Hughes role in the 70's.
  17. Re SFT Louise Larabee's role of Carrie Fuller lasted seven months.
  18. Dec 9 1986 ep # 7904 (from a script)
  19. Script # 7465 Airdate March 19 1985 Feb 10 1970 ep #3589 From a Joel Kane script (new headwriter replacing Irna)
  20. Another SFT role Scott Lafeber as Rick Edwards. In various bios he says he had a role on Search for 2 years.
  21. Re SFT Add Tenney Walsh - Lorraine Re ATWT Add Penelope Ann Miller as Lee Melton
  22. Re Secret Storm Add Nurse Adams - Kimberley Vaughn
  23. Re Donald Symington Add LIAMST
  24. Re SFT Add Clyde Carbone 'The Velvet Tone' - Joe Grifasi
  25. Week ending July 3 1983 The Hamptons, which garnered a 13.8/25 and 18th place for ABC in its premiere showing a week earlier, plummeted to 59th place (9.2/17).

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