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I just learned something about Denise Nickerson (Amy, Nora) that I had not previously known: that she auditioned for the role of Princess Leia in the Star Wars motion picture.

Also still living are Fran Sharon, Tony Roberts, Frances Fisher, Denny Albee, Margaret Colin, Lee Godart, Ernie Physher (Townsend), Lela Ivey, Marianne Alda, all six of the actresses who played Nicole and Geri, Ted Tinling, Leah Ayres, Laurie Vendig, Renee Jarrett, Tony Craig, Nark Arnold, Allen Fawcett, Joe Lambie, Leah Ayers, Lori Cardille, Stephanie Braxton (also a writer), Sandy Faison, Pamela Shoemaker, Chris Weatherhead, Michael Comforti and Gillian Spenser (two more writers), Louise Shaffer (another writer), Kerri Emerson, Marcia Cross, Alan Feinstein, Kathy Cody, Willie Ames, Kate Capshaw, Dorothy Sinnette, Dan Hamilton, Anita Gillette, Leslie Ray, Richard Thomas, Joey Baio, Carolyn Groves, Sam Groom, Margaret DePriest (another writer), Martin Sheen, Dr. Sheldon Collins, Alice Hirson, Lawrence Pressman, James Hall, Lynn Leveredge, Susan MacDonald, Mari Gorman, Jay Gregory, Thom Christopher, Lucy Martin, Holland Taylor, Larry Joshua, Bibi Neuwirth, Bernie McInerny, Mark Rydell (from the original cast), Judith Barcroft, Karen Needle, Polly Adams, John LaGoia, Deborah Goodrich, Scott Glenn, Nicholas Pryor. Cynthia Gregory, Lori Laughlin ... These are just some of the names that I can think of who could be interviewed.

I would also love to know which actors auditioned for roles for the beginning of Dark Shadows. I know that Nancy Barrett (Carolyn) auditiioned for Victoria Winters. I know that Robin Strasser (who was later in Another World, All My Children and One Life to Live) auditioned for a role. I was thinking that maybe this was for Victoria, but it just occurred to me that it may have been for Maggie.

Tonight, I am watching the early episodes of Dark Shadows. I must have watched them dozens of times before (including when they were first aired on ABC). Here are some observations and ponderments that I have tonight: 1. I wonder about the performers on the show who had contracts and for what length these contracts were.o The performers who I expect had contracts were Alexandra Moltke (Victoria), Joan Bennett (Elizabeth), Nancy Barrett (Carolyn), Joel Crothers (Joe), Mark Allen (Sam), Kathryn Leigh Scott (Maggie), Frank Schofield (Bill), and George Mitchell (Matthew). I am not sure if David Hennessy had a contract or not, since he was a juvenile, and I am basing that on his age. I doubt if Louis Edmonds had a contract because Roger was originally supposed to appear on the show for a few months. 2. Maggie, in the first episodes, tells Victoria that everyone who lives in Collinwood is a kook. I think that the least kookiest would have been Carolyn. I wonder if the show was preparing the viewers of an eventual conflict between Maggie and Carolyn (over Joe). (This is not the only time that I think that storylines originally intended for Carolyn were dropped.) 3. Two of the people in the Blue Whale were played by Robert Viharo (as Harry - but not Harry Johnson) and Alan Yorke (as Alan Feinstein was known around this time). I wonder if either of these two actors had auditioned for the role of Joe Haskell and lost the part to Joel Crothers (who was more innocent looking than either Mr. Viharo or Mr. Yorke). 4. The bartender at the Blue Whale is played by Bob O'Connell, who does not receive billing. (I don't think that he ever did during the entire run of the show.) The bartended is identified in this episode as "Joe," but he is later renamed as "Bob Rooney." I wonder why the show would have two characters both named "Joe." 5. I see in episode #2 that some of the female extras are wearing pants. Yet, Carolyn is wearing a dress. I know that Nicole on The Edge of Night is said to be the first female character who wore jeans. Carolyn, I don't think, wore pants until the 1970-Parallel Time set of episodes.

There was a book of trivia on The Edge of Night that was written, but I do not think that it was ever published. The writer (whose name I cannot remember at this moment) had written other trivia books - I remember that there was a MASH book from the same author. I suppose that the publisher thought that there was a much smaller amount of interest in The Edge of Night. I was really hoping that Lois Kibbe (who was a very published author) and Ann Flood would collaborate on a book about the show. After the death of Ms. Kibbee, I was hoping that Ann Flood would have written a book about it. Now, I don't know who would know that most about the show. Maybe Millette Alexander? Is director/writer Don Wallace (the original director of The Edge of Night and a producer/director/writer of numerous shows) still living?

I think that the Jasper Delaney storyline may have been Mr. Slesar's best - although he did not initiate the sotyrline from the beginning. I wonder how this would have been if it had been written by Robert Cenedella instead.

Actor Nicolas Coster (Anthony Macana on One Life to Live) has passed away. Here is an obituary from Variety: Nicolas Coster, the actor known for his roles on “Santa Barbara,” “The Bay” and “All the President’s Men,” has died. He was 89. Coster died on June 26 in a hospital in Florida, according to his daughter Dinneen Coster. Dinneen shared the news of her father’s death on Facebook. “Please remember him as a great artist. He was an actor’s actor!” she wrote. “I will always be inspired by him and know how lucky I am to have such a great father!!” From 1984 to 1993, Coster starred on NBC’s soap opera “Santa Barbara” as Lionel Lockridge. He appeared in just under 600 episodes of the series before it ended. His “Santa Barbara” co-star A Martinez, who played Cruz Castillo in the series, responded on Tuesday to the news of Coster’s death, writing on Facebook, “It was an honor to work in a company with him, and I’ll always hold his friendship and his sterling strengths as a professional close to heart.” He continued, “Unsolicited one day, he gave me this profoundly useful advice: ‘What you choose to do with a scene doesn’t have to be the probable thing. You can choose any course imaginable –– no matter how unlikely –– as long as it’s possible.’” In addition to his role on “Santa Barbara,” the British-born actor appeared in several other television series, including “The Secret Storm,” “Another World,” “All My Children,” “Our Private World” and “As the World Turns.” In 1976, Coster starred in Alan J. Pakula’s “All the President’s Men” as attorney Markham. His other films included the 1953 “Titanic,” “Reds” alongside Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty, “MacArthur” and “Stir Crazy.” More recently, Coster appeared in television series “The Bay” as Mayor Jack Madison, for which he received his first Daytime Emmy. In 2020, he starred as Finley in “The Deep Ones.” Coster is survived by his wife Beth Pantel and his daughters, Dinneen and Candice Jr.

Actor Nicolas Coster (Young Doctor Malone, Our Private World, As the World Turns, The Secret Storm, Somerset, Another World, One Life to Live, All My Children) has passed away. Here is an obituary from Variety: Nicolas Coster, the actor ... He was 89. Coster died on June 26 in a hospital in Florida, according to his daughter Dinneen Coster. Dinneen shared the news of her father’s death on Facebook. “Please remember him as a great artist. He was an actor’s actor!” she wrote. “I will always be inspired by him and know how lucky I am to have such a great father!!” From 1984 to 1993, Coster starred on NBC’s soap opera “Santa Barbara” as Lionel Lockridge. He appeared in just under 600 episodes of the series before it ended. His “Santa Barbara” co-star A Martinez, who played Cruz Castillo in the series, responded on Tuesday to the news of Coster’s death, writing on Facebook, “It was an honor to work in a company with him, and I’ll always hold his friendship and his sterling strengths as a professional close to heart.” He continued, “Unsolicited one day, he gave me this profoundly useful advice: ‘What you choose to do with a scene doesn’t have to be the probable thing. You can choose any course imaginable –– no matter how unlikely –– as long as it’s possible.’” In addition to his role on “Santa Barbara,” the British-born actor appeared in several other television series, including “The Secret Storm,” “Another World,” “All My Children,” “Our Private World” and “As the World Turns.” In 1976, Coster starred in Alan J. Pakula’s “All the President’s Men” as attorney Markham. His other films included the 1953 “Titanic,” “Reds” alongside Diane Keaton and Warren Beatty, “MacArthur” and “Stir Crazy.” More recently, Coster appeared in television series “The Bay” as Mayor Jack Madison, for which he received his first Daytime Emmy. In 2020, he starred as Finley in “The Deep Ones.” Coster is survived by his wife Beth Pantel and his daughters, Dinneen and Candice Jr.

This is the era of the show during which Maroy McGreggor appeared as Susan? I had assumed in the past that it was much closer to the show's departure from the air when she had appeared. Thank you for the clarification. Again, I assuming that this is NOT the same singer who later had a top 40 hit with the song Torn between Two Lovers.

I would love to know. So many of the performers from Loving were brilliant in their roles but have appeared on screen in little else.

I think that NBC really liked Mr. Cenedella. He wrote Another World after Agnes Nixon had departed, Somerset (which he created), The Doctors, How to Survive a Marriage and the serial Return to Peyton Place all on NBC. I know that NBC did not own most of these shows (only The Doctors and How to Survive a Marriage), but probably was responsible for his being hired at Return to Peyton Place. His storylines were excellent (in my opinion) on Somerset. He also wrote for The Secret Storm and The Guiding Light.

What I remember is the house with the loft on its grounds. (I think that Dennis later lived in the loft.) There was a swimming pool which, rather than being level with the ground, rose from the ground about three feet. The Bay City High School swimming team was said to have practiced in Iris's pool.

I do not remember Chandler Garrison as a publisher. My memory is only that he was a retired wealthy man. He had divorced his first wife Margaret (Flora Campbell) and then later married Jean (who had a son, Andy Hurley). Spencer Garrison, to me, was not torn between two women. He did not seem to want his first wife, Nancy (Susan Browning, who was wonderful in the role in my opinion). He did, though, have guilt in leaving his home due to the love of his daughter, whose name I have temporarily forgotten. Didn't producer Peter Minor's daughter play the daughter of Nancy and Spencer? Although I never saw A Flame in the Wind/A Time for Us, I had long thought of the similarity of the two stories. Two sisters fell in love with the same man on both shows. I had attributed that similarity to Irna Phillips, who created Love Is a Many Splendored Thing and was the executive story editor on A Flame in the Wind/A Time for Us. I also seem to think that the Sims sisters on A World Apart (aired later on ABC) would have also eventually fallen for someone and would have competed against each other. (I did see the episode of A Time for Us that is on YouTube.) I guess that I had not thought about Don Ettinger because I was not aware that he had worked on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. I was thinking that he had written The Secret Storm or Love of Life at one time. Also, I am pretty sure that Ann Marcus created the Chernak family. Diana Douglas, in her autobiography, said that, after being cast as Lily Chernak, she was told by Ann Marcus (at a chance encounter) that she looked nothing like the image of Lily in the mind of Ms. Marcus and that she would never have hired her to play Lily. I don't think that Joseph Hardy was still producing Love Is a Many Splendored Thing when Ms. Marcus was writing the show, but I don't know for sure.

He (James Elward) was a writer for these shows: The Doctors, The Secret Storm, The Young Marrieds, Strange Paradise. I was not aware of his work on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. Thank you for the information!

It is usually said that Ira and Jane Avery were much better than Ms. Phillips and that it was their writing that put the show on the map. They killed Phil Elliott and paired his widow Helen with Tom Donovan. They concentrated on the Iris-Mark-Laura triangle. They did away with the Mia character, Dr. Jim Abbott, all of the abortion storyline, and Laura's calling to be a nun. I know that the couple divorced. She refused to collaborate with him. (This may have been after they left the show and wrote NBC's The Doctors.) CBS wanted them to hire them as co-writers, but she refused to work with him. Was Don Ettinger their replacement? Which writer(s) created the Garrison family and the proposed/changed gay Andy storyline? Which writer(s) created the Hale family?

I do not think that this was reported in 2019. Actress Gloria Hoye (Teri on Somerset) passed away. Evidently, from the obituary posted below, soap opera director Carol Sedwick was her daughter-in-law. Gloria Hoye Scott (1925-2019) Gloria Hoye Scott died peacefully of natural causes on July 3, 2019 at the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, Massachusetts. Born in Brooklyn, NY in 1925, Gloria was the daughter of Richard and Louise (Rauherz) Hoye. She began her professional acting career in the USO, serving in the Pacific during World War II. Her success as an actor spanned decades, starting with numerous roles on stage including performing with Robert Redford in The Highest Tree, which ran on Broadway in 1959. She also had a long career as a soap opera actress seen on The Brighter Day, Secret Storm, Love Is A Many Splendored Thing, Somerset and more. She was a devoted member of The Actors Studio, studying with Lee Strasberg alongside Paul Newman, Marilyn Monroe and others. Later in life, she studied at the New York Botanical Garden and enjoyed a second career as a landscape designer in New York and Connecticut. Before her move to Massachusetts last November, Gloria spent all her adult life living in Manhattan. She loved New York with a passion, whether walking in Central Park, enjoying fine restaurants (and fine wine), or taking in the city's rich offerings of theatre, film, dance, music, galleries, and museums. She loved to learn about new things, so she studied the Arts by reading voraciously, and going to performances and lectures whenever she could. She traveled throughout the world with friends and family and took great joy in simple and sophisticated pleasures: fresh flowers, cashmere, hand-written notes, good coffee, and salted caramels, to name a few. She appreciated beauty and excellence, be it a piece of music, a talented actor, or a breath-taking view. She was a seeker, and often ahead of her time in her thinking and tastes. Gloria is survived by her children Michael Patrick (Carol Sedwick) and Laura Patrick (Martha) as well as her two grandsons, Ian and Durrell. Her family would like to thank the staff at Linda Manor Assisted Living and the Hospice of the Fisher Home for their dedicated and compassionate care in Gloria's final months. The Williamsburg Funeral Home was entrusted with her cremation. A private celebration of her life will be held in New York City in the fall. Donations in Gloria's memory may be made to The Actors Fund. Published by Daily Hampshire Gazette on Jul. 11, 2019.

Ira and Jane Avery did not suceed Irna Phillips? Or, did they replace Don Ettinger?

I would like to know about actress Chase Crosley. She She She played the following daytime roles: Ellen Wilson on NBC's Today Is Ours (1958). Faye Bannister Koda on NBC's Young Doctor Malone (1962-1963). Jane Fletcher Hayes #2 on CBS's The Guiding Light (1963-1968). Eleanor on CBS's The Secret Storm (1968-1969) She was also a temporary substitute for Billie Watt on CBS's Search for Tomorrow. According to Imdb, she is a widow and still living. I wonder what she has been doing since her last acting role. She appeared in a short film in 1994.

In a post above, I mentioned incorrectly that Farley Granger had begun his daytime career on One Life to Live. That is incorrect; he had played Trent Archer on The Edge of Night previously. I had forgotten since our local affiliate had dropped The Edge of Night for almost two years during the time that he was playing that role.

I remember that Farley Granger was replaced by the show (One Life to Live). The new Dr. Will Vernon was Bernie McInnerny. He was only one for a short time, so he may have been a temporary substitute. I did not know at that time that Mr. Granger was propositioning a younger actor, but the pornagraphic actor Jerry Butler told in his autobiography that an actor on One Life to Live had promised him a role on the show in exchange for affection (I am thinking that it would have been Brad Vernon #2 when Jameson Parker left the show's cast). I do not know if this offer was from Mr. Granger or Anthony George (although I suspect Mr. Granger). Mr. McInnerny had completed his role on The Edge of Night as Mark Ferriday. The actor who replaced Bernie McInnerny was Anthony George. He had begun his daytime career as Burke Devlin #2 and Jeremiah Collins. He later joined the cast of Search for Tomorrow. He left that show and was later hired to play Dr. Vernon on One Life to Live. He remained on the show as a contract player for a number of years, and, at the time that he was dropped, the show said that he may be seen occasionally. However, he only returned (shortly after) during the death storyline of his daughter Samantha Vernon Buchanan Garrettson. Dr. Vernon lost his wife Naomi (played by Teri Keane, who had earlier been on As the World Turns) in a botched suicide attempt. He later had romances with several other romantic partners on One Life to Live.

random things about the show (questions and statements): To soapfave06, I initially did not connect with your question about the twins. When Amy was institutionalized, her doctor was Dr. Ian Northcoate. Dr. Northcoate was married to Mary Lou Northcoate (Clarice Blackburn). Mary Lou was insane and very jealous of Valerie. Ian was the twin of the evil Owen Northcoate. I cannot remember all of the trouble that Mary Lou (who eventually died - I am thinking that it may have been in a fire) and Owen did. I think that Owen may have posed as Ian and attempted to have his twin brother committed as a criminally insane man. I cannot remember this whole storyline. Ian and Owen were played by actor and director Gordon Rigsby. Later, Ian and Valerie were married. Mr. Rigsby departed the show and was replaced by Alexander Scorby (who was the real life husband of Lori March). He remained on the show as a recurring character until the cancellation. Mr. Rigsby later directed episodes of The Doctors. Mr. Scorby later played Nigel Fragate #2 on All My Children. I am still curious about who played Bill, the lawyer. I learned (by searching through Slick Jones' listings about the show) that Addison Powell played Dr. Hadley at this time. Jay Lanin played Alex. Joseph Warren (All My Children's Larry Colby) played Wally. The last sentence in the last synopsis mentioned Mr. L and Mrs. H. I know that Mrs. H. was Nola Hollister, but I do not know who Mr. L is. Who is Mr. L?

Jada Rowland (Amy Ames #1 on The Secret Storm) on the first season of PBS's Sesame Street.

I just learned that actor Barry Newman (John Barnes on The Edge of Night) died on May 11. Barry Newman, Star of ‘Vanishing Point’ and ‘The Limey,' Dead at 92 Newman — who died on May 11 — "was a rock for so many people," his wife, Angela, said By Marisa Sullivan Published on June 5, 2023 08:07 AM SKIP ADS Barry Newman, known for his role in the cult action thriller The Vanishing Point, died on May 11 in a New York City hospital, according to multiple reports. The Emmy-nominated star was 92 years old. No further details have been released on his death. Newman is survived by his wife, Angela, who confirmed her husband's death on Sunday to The Hollywood Reporter. His friends also confirmed the news on social media, per Deadline. In a tribute shared with THR, Angela expressed that Newman “was a rock for so many people, whose spirit he lifted and allowed to be free,” she said. “He was truly a light for so many, with an incredible, hilarious sense of humor that lit everything and everyone up.” AMANDA EDWARDS/WIREIMAGE The stage, screen and TV actor, who is also known for his starring role in the 1974 legal drama, Petrocelli, grew up in Boston. While studying at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, he met Lee Strasberg and decided he wanted to be an actor. After graduating, he studied with the influential acting teacher in the Big Apple. Newman went on to star in feature films such as Daylight in 1996 with Sylvester Stallone, Bowfinger with Steve Martin in 1999 and with the late Peter Fonda in Stephen Soderbergh's The Limey that same year.

I thought that Paul Avilla Mayer and Stephanie Braxton did a terrible job when writing Search for Tomorrow. Stephanie Braxton was later quoted as saying that she learned that she was not suited to be a head writer.

CBS also purchased The Brighter Day from Procter and Gamble. The network moved the production from New York City to California. Didn't the network own the serial The Clear Horizon?