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I never realized until this day that Diana Davilla had starred in a television adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. It aired on ABC. Marisa Pavan of Ryan's Hope was also in the cast. (Ms. Pavan played Chantal Dubujak on Ryan's Hope.) As the mother was Viveca Lindfors (Simone on All My Children). Suzanne Grossman (a writer of Ryan's Hope) also was in the cast.
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Elizabeth McRae's character on All My Children was as a reported. I do not know the character's name.
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The decline in the quality of the show can endlessly be discussed, but I have nearly also said that the show decline began when Robert Costello departed as the producer or executive producer.
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This is copied from People magazine:
De los Reyes died at age 56 on Dec. 24, 2023 after being diagnosed with cancer
michael easton/facebook Kamar de los Reyes (Left), Michael Easton.© Provided by PeopleMichael Easton was by his best friend and One Life to Live costar Kamar de los Reyes' side when he died.
While speaking at the May 16 Daytime Stands Up: A Benefit for Stand Up to Cancer - We All Have a Story live stream event, Easton, 57, paid tribute to de los Reyes, who died at age 56 on Dec. 24, 2023 after being diagnosed with cancer.
"There was people stretched out all the way to outside. People showed that hadn’t seen him in 20 years. That was the effect. So many of the One Life cast members came and cast from All American,” Easton said, referencing the TV series de los Reyes starred in as Coach Montes from 2022 until his death.
Barry King/Alamy Michael Easton (Left) and Kamar de los Reyes pictured in 1994.© Provided by PeopleEaston played John McBain alongside de los Reyes' character Antonio Vega in One Life to Live. The drama ran for 21 seasons from 1968 through 2013. De los Reyes starred in the show from 1995 to 2009, while Easton was on it from 1999 until 2012.
The actors' friendship actually began when they starred in the 1990 action thriller Coldfire together.
"It was a 30-year friendship with Kamar. We did our first movie together in 1990. I was scared and I was quiet, and I was instantly drawn to his bravado and his sense of himself. Kamar was larger than life," Easton shared.
"He was the best man at my wedding, and I'm godfather to his son Michael. His loss was profound on all of us," he added.
Remembering his best friend, Easton went on, “There hasn’t been a day gone by that I haven’t thought of him and his family and what he brought to this world, and the contributions he made, not only to this acting community."
Steve Fenn /American Broadcasting Companies via Getty Kamar de los Reyes (Left), Michael Easton on 'One Life to Live'© Provided by PeopleEaston also revealed that de los Reyes worked up until two weeks before his death, and would always talk about "healing" instead of being sick.
"He was fierce to the end. He never talked about being sick. Even though the odds were stacked from the very beginning, and it’s still really hard for me to talk about, but I was in awe of his strength and his resolve. I would’ve shut down long before he did," he continued.
De los Reyes is survived by his wife, actress Sherri Saum, and his sons, Caylen from a previous relationship, and twins Michael and John, whom he shared with Saum.
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Actor Dabney Coleman (Dr. Tracy Graham) has passed away.
Dabney Coleman, the bad boss of ‘9 to 5’ and ‘Yellowstone’ guest star, dies at 92
Emmy winner Dabney Coleman died Thursday afternoon.(Julie Markes / Associated Press)Dabney Coleman, the beloved character actor who famously played the dastardly cad overseeing Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton in the movie “9 to 5,” has died. He was 92.
Coleman’s death was confirmed by his daughter Quincy Coleman who said he died “peacefully and exquisitely” at home Thursday afternoon.
“My father crafted his time here on Earth with a curious mind, a generous heart and a soul on fire with passion, desire and humor that tickled the funny bone of humanity,” she said in a statement obtained by The Times. “As he lived, he moved through this final act of his life with elegance, excellence and mastery.
ADVERTISEMENT“A teacher, a hero and a king, Dabney Coleman is a gift and blessing in life and in death as his spirit will shine through his work, his loved ones and his legacy … eternally.”
No cause of death was given.
The actor, who also starred in the TV series “The Guardian” and “Boardwalk Empire” and had a guest turn as John Dutton Sr. in “Yellowstone,” was nominated for six Emmy Awards. He won in 1987 for the TV movie “Sworn to Silence.” He also starred in the films “Tootsie,” “On Golden Pond,” “War Games,” “The Beverly Hillbillies” and “Where the Heart Is.”
“I like to say things funny, not say funny things. There is more acting involved than just saying that supposedly funny line that a lot of sitcoms rely on. I don’t want to do jokes,” the actor told The Times in 1991 when he gained a reputation as the king of TV curmudgeons in the unconventional TV comedies “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” “Buffalo Bill” and “The Slap Maxwell Story.”
“I lean toward mean,” Coleman, who was in his late 50s at the time, said. “I like that. It’s fun and it will never cease to be fun because you can’t do that in your real life. At least you can’t get away with it.”
Born on Jan. 3, 1932, in Austin, Texas, to Melvin Randolph Coleman and Mary Wharton, the actor was the youngest of four children and was raised by his mother after his father died of pneumonia when Coleman was 4. He grew up in Corpus Christi.
With a background as eclectic as his characters, Coleman studied at the Virginia Military Institute and served in the U.S. Army in Europe in 1953 and, as an avid player, played for the U.S. Army tennis team while posted there for two years
He continued his education at the University of Texas, where he studied law and met his first wife, Ann Harrell. Through her, he met actor Zachary Scott, who inspired him to drop out of college and pursue acting, a career he admits he came to “late in life.” Coleman and Harrell married in 1957 and divorced in 1959.
Coleman and his second wife, Jean Hale, married in 1961. They traveled to Los Angeles where he began regularly appearing on television in shows such as “Naked City” and “The Outer Limits.”
In the 1970s, he clinched notable parts on “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” and in the feature films “Downhill Racer” and “The Towering Inferno.” But his career as a humorous cad took off in 1980 when he landed the part of the “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” Franklin Hart Jr. in Colin Higgins’ radical feminist comedy, “9 to 5.” Coleman said he always had “more fun playing bad guys” and relished the “rottenness” of his chauvinistic character.
“Any amount of rottenness he wants to display is perfect for this character because he has no redeeming qualities at all,” he said in a 1980 interview. “He is a bad person but that’s the fun of it but also it’s why anyone who would take that seriously and say, ‘Well that is not what all male bosses are like,’ is missing the point. They missed what we’re trying to do, which is trying to make a funny movie.”
Looking back at his role in the film, Coleman was struck to be starring amid “these three icons,” he said in Brian Beasley’s 2017 documentary “Not Such a Bad Guy: Conversations With Dabney Coleman.”
He played similar roles in “Modern Problems” and “Tootsie” and took on more serious roles in “On Golden Pond” and “Cloak and Dagger.” On television, he also starred in the acclaimed but short-lived series “Buffalo Bill” in the early 1980s and earned a Golden Globe for his role in the late 1980s comedy “The Slap Maxwell Story.”
Coleman told The Times that he took a role in the comedy series “Drexell’s Class” in 1991 to gain visibility that he thought could land him significant parts in feature films. At the time, he wanted to work with filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese. He got his wish in 2010 when he appeared in the first two seasons of HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” which was executive-produced by Scorsese. He played Commodore Louis Kaestner, a mentor to Steve Buscemi’s Enoch “Nucky” Thompson in the mob drama.
The actor also had a memorable guest turn on the hit Kevin Costner drama “Yellowstone,” appearing in the Season 2 finale as Costner’s father in the final moments of his life. The role was his last onscreen credit.
Coleman is survived by children Meghan, Kelly, Randy and Quincy Coleman and grandchildren Hale and Gabe Torrance, Luie Freundl, and Kai and Coleman Biancaniello, his daughter’s statement said.
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I am not sure if those college-aged were a consideration in 1966.
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The husband of Lee Beery (Joanna Miles on Dark Shadows) is nominated for a Tony Award this year for his orchestrations of Merrily We Roll Along.
I think that this Ms. Berry later changed the spelling of her first name to "Leigh."
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Bebe Neuwirth (one of the Whitney dancers on The Edge of Night) was nominated for Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Musical award.
She is nominated for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club.
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Today, I learned that Ray Martin and Edythe Britton composed the theme song for the ABC serial Never Too Young.
Score Productions provided other (probably background) music.
Mr. Martin also composed the theme for NBC/Bing Crosby Productions' Bright Promise.
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I agree that Procter and Gamble should have transferred Steve and Alice to Somerset.
However, Alice did remain a character on Another World (I think throughout the years that the show was produced by Paul Rauch). All of her storylines would have never been undertaken.
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Actress Marla Adams (Belle Clemens Britton Kinkade) passed away recently.
The Amy-Belle rivalry was one of the best in daytime television history.
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Tchina Arnold did not leave Ryan's Hope to appear on Martin. After the cancellation of Ryan's Hope, she was cast by ABC to played Sharla Valentine on All My Children. She probably would have remained on Ryan's Hope had it not been cancelled.
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Christine Tudor would have been great as Karen #3 on One Life to Live!
If the character had remained or returned, more storyline could have been given to Dr. Larry Woleck and Dr. Danny Woleck in later years, and that would have been very good!
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Ron Sproat did write for the replacement for Never Too Young (Dark Shadows). However, it was into at least its seventh month or so before he was the writer.
The first thirteen weeks were written by Art Wallace, and the second thirteen weeks were written by Mr. Wallace and movie writer Frances Swan.
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I read that Conson Studios is where the program was produced. (although I know that a lot of the show was videotaped on location at Santa Monica Pier)
Were there other shows produced in the Conson Studios?
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The Guiding Light could have employed BOTH Lynne Adams and Barbara Rodell.
I am pretty sure that Lynne Adams choose to leave The Guiding Light.
I do not remember Kathryn Hays in the role at all. Barbara Rodell, who had been killed off both Another World and The Secret Storm, became the third Leslie. I think that she was popular in all three of those roles. She had also appeared on A Flame in the Wind/A Time for Us and, later, on As the World Turns (on which she was fantastic.
Agnes Nixon had created the roles of Leslie Jackson, R. N. and also Dr. Steven Jackson. Their relationship, I am told, was a lot like that of Palmer Courtlandt and Nina Courtlandt, two later characters who were also created by Agnes Nixon for All My Children.
For years, there was a painting of Mrs. Jackson, the supposedly deceased wife of Steve and mother of Leslie. However, Mrs. Jackson was not really dead (much like Gillian Spenser's role of Daisy on All My Children.
Jada Rowland left The Secret Storm for the third time, and CBS placed Lynne Adams as the fourth Amy. I am not exactly sure why she left the show, but the father of her child had been murdered, she had appeared on the first season of the PBS program Sesame Street, two of the longtime actresses had left The Secret Storm (Marjorie Gateson and Haila Stoddard), the show had a new owner, and Ms. Rowland was also working as a puppeter.
It is said that Ms. Rowland was traveling across the country, and, when she was somewhere in the South, she contacted the show and told them that she was out of money, asking the show to forward her enough to get back to Manhatten and show's studios.
At that point, Lynne Adams was taken off the show and replaced by Jada Rowland.
Lynne Adams returned to The Guiding Light to replace Barbara Rodell.
But, if the show had really done the smart thing, they would have kept Barbara Rodell as Leslie, and also hired Lynne Adams to play Victoria, who was the mother/wife seen in the portrait. Ms. Adams could have worn make-up to make her look old. (She wore a older woman's hair style when she was on The Secret Storm.)
Actress Carol Tietel (who had completed a role on The Edge of Night) was hired to play Victoria.
The Secret Storm was cancelled around Thanksgiving of 1973 and left the air in February of 1974. The show was sold to American Home Products (its original owner), and that company attempted to syndicate The Secret Storm. (My local CBS affiliate, WJTV, was said to have been the first station to purchase the future show.) But, alas, the proposed syndicated version never materialized, and the show was hastily drawn to an uncomfortable conclusion.
Two of the show's popular stars, Dan Hamilton and Stephanie Braxton, joined the cast of All My Children on ABC. David Acroid moved to NBC to played Dr. Gilcrest on Another World, and Bernard Barrow (Dan Kinkaid) joined the cast of The Edge of Night.
There was a consideration by NBC to revive The Secret Storm, but the decision was made to produce How to Survive a Marriage instead.
By the way, Jada Rowland was considered for the role of Dr. Faith Coleridge on Ryan's Hope in 1975. The show's owners had created the role for Ms. Rowland, but it was decided that she was a little too old to play Faith.
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I am thinking that the actress Lisa Cameron played Susan prior to the departure in 1971.
I don't know if the actress chose to leave Another World or (probably) if she made the decision to leave herself to play another role.
She did play Peggy Reagan on As the World Turns in 1971 and 1972. (Peggy was a nanny for Dr. Dan Stewart who was secretly in love with him.) Perhaps Irna Phillips created the role of Peggy for Lisa Cameron.
I thought that she was a lovely actress and was suprised to not see her cast in other television roles!
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Tony Carlin also played Craig LeWinter on Ryan's Hope - probably around 1981.
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This was posted by Lisa Sutton (Nancy Feldman #1 on Ryan's Hope):
This is exactly how I use to feel when I taught ballet classes regularly. Sharing my gifts with the beautiful students, young and old, that would walk through my studio doors eager to learn.—> I never felt exhausted from teaching and it truly filled my heart with so much joy. I loved molding them into beautiful ballerinas instilling the love of dance in each and every one of them...I considered myself the guardian angel of the fifth position and I treasured every single day.Now I’m only able to teach through zoom, which is still very fulfilling but it’s not the same as in person. Maybe one day soon I’ll teach again
.xoxo Miss Lisa
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In my opinion, actor James O'Sullivan was the best to play Dr. Jeff Martin on All My Children.
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I have questions about Robert Gorman, who was one of the original producers of ABC's One Life to Live (along with Don Wallace and Doris Quinlan). Who was he, and on what other projects did he work?
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Mary Layne (The Edge of Night, Another World) is also a real estate agent.
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Last night, I watched a lot of tapes from the Paul Rauch-era of One Life to Live.
I have a couple of questions:
In what order were the various members of the Sanders family introduced? I imagine that it went in this order, but I would like to know and not speculate:
1. Judith Russell Sanders (Louise Sorrell) - sister of Jon Russell
2. Jamie Sanders (Mark Philpot) - came onto the show when Joshua Cox was introduced as the new Dan Woleck
3. Charles Sanders (Michael Billington for one or two episodes and then replaced in the role by Peter Brown)
4. Elizabeth Sanders (Lois Kibbee)
5. Kate Sanders (Marcia Cross)
Later, Mari Lynn's mother married into the family.
The show seemed to be heading to a Lisa-Brad-Connie triangle. I had forgotten all about this. This was after the character of Dr. Joshua Hall had departed the show. Lisa's father (Lloyd Hollar) had also left, as had reporter Mike Rivers (Eriq La Salle). The role of Connie O'Neill was being played by the second actress in the role, Teri Donohue.
Who else inferred a romance between Lisa and Brad? How long did this last, or was it for a single episode?
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Here is a question about two former television performers who happen to have the similar last name:
What has happened to Lionel Johnson (Michael Randolph on Another World) and Julie Ann Johnson (Joy O'Neal #2 on One Life to Live)?
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Diana Hyland, currently appearing as "the nymphomaniacal drunk minister's wife" in ABC's prime-time soap Peyton Place, and author Burt Prelutsky is in love with her. She's got it all: a dazzling smile, lovely blue eyes, and legs that won't quit. She's interesting, too; she believes in flying saucers, said good evening to Nikita Khrushchev at the UN and was winked at by Fidel Castro, and has remained 27 for the last five years*, the previous time when she was interviewed by TV Guide. "I lied then," she tells Prelutsky.
*According to the always-reliable Wikipedia, Hyland was born in 1936, which means she was in fact 27 —in 1963. She told the truth then; she's lying now.
She's a dedicated actress, and a successful one—"everything I've ever tried I've done well," she says. Her Peyton Place director, Walter Doniger, calls her "an elegant, bright, witty dame" who's also svelte, sophisticated, and a nonconformist. In fact, she only has two vices: she owns 200 pairs of shoes, and she smokes three packs of cigarettes a day.
I don't know if that last vice is significant or not. Flash forward to 1977: she's in a happy relationship with John Travolta, she's playing Dick Van Patten's wife in Eight Is Enough—and she's diagnosed with breast cancer. She dies in March of that year, aged 41.