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One of my very favorite soap opera actors is (was) Luke Reilly. I first saw him when he created the role of Richard Abbott on One Life to Live (a character that I also liked when he played Richard in 1977 and 1978, although I did not really care for the three recasts - Robert Gribbon or Jeffrey Byron). Mr. Reilly later returned to One Life to Live in the role of Claude Charbonneau in 1997 and 1998. Claude was the kidnapper of Max's twins whose capture was made possible by R. J. Gannon working with Max. At some point, Mr. Reilly played a Ted Bancroft on Another World. (I only remember Gary Tomlin and in that role.) He also played Roger Benton on Texas (1982) and Cal Randloph on As the World Turns (1984 and 1985). He played Father Claude (another character named Claude) on All My Children in 1997. I was taking a soap opera class in 1984, and our teacher (writer Sherry Johnson) mentioned that the role of Tom Hughes on As the World Turns was being recast and asked us who we thought would be a good choice to be the new Tom Hughes. I also told her that Mr. Reilly would would be, in my opinion, a wonderful Dr. Jamie Frame on Another World. (At this time, Stephen Yates was playing Jamie. I objected to Mr. Yates because he had played an earlier role on Another World as the boyfriend of Marianne Randolph who had impregnated her.) The teacher informed me that Mr. Reilly had already played a role on Another World (about which I had not known). I still, to this day, think that Luke Reilly would have been an excellent Dr. Jamie Frame on Another World.

There is a biography of character Jamie Sanders from One Life to Live posted on the One Life to Live section. He had someone who was working with him in the cocaine distribution plot named Vic. Do you know who the actor was who played Vic?

I think that these episodes and this storyline were all universally loved.

This series, from Lorimar (which also produced Dallas, Knot's Landing, Flamingo Road) aired on NBC and had an extremely good cast. It was a primetime serial typical of those of the era it aired. I am thinking that it was set in the past, but that may not be right. It should have aired longer than it did, but there were so many primetime serials airing during that time that I guess the competition was too much. CBS and ABC had successful shows of this kind, but NBC , although it made several attempts, never had a huge success. (Similar to the NBC soap operas of the 1950s).

I just read that Dianne Hull (mentioned above) is the step-daughter of William Smithers (Stanley on The Guiding Light). The pilot for Honeymoon Suite also featured Henry Gibson, Rose Marie, Allen Oppenheimer, Martha Scott, Authur O'Connell and Antic Melkoir. And, I thought that I had made a mistake when I saw your reply. I did not - it is Brad David (not Davis) who was on How to Survive a Marriage. (His cousin was one of my professors in graduate school.)

Also in the episode of Honeymoon Suite in which Gloria DeHaven appeared were Brad David (How to Survive a Marriage) and Dianne Hull. That was the pilot, and it was directed by Hal Cooper (director of Kitty Foyle, For Better or For Worse, The Clear Horizon and Art Linkletter's Houseparty.)

He does strongly resemble the late Mr. Reeve (whose cousin Elizabeth Hubbard did appear on The Edge of Night).

About the character that Joseph Gallison played on Where the Heart Is: I understand that the that soap opera offered a role to Carol Roux (Another World, Somerset). Again, my understanding is that the show was wanting to pair Mr. Gallison and Ms. Roux, who had been a popular couple on Another World. I don't think that Mr. Garrison's character had much to do when Ms. Roux did not accept the role on Where the Heart Is.

For many years, I have thought that Frances Sternhagen (One Life to Live, The Secret Storm, and other shows) would have been wonderful in the role of Dr. Julia Hoffman (and other roles) on Dark Shadows. However, last weekend, i viewed a rerun of The Naked City that had Jan Miner (best remembered as Madge, the manacurist in Palmolive dishwashing liquid commercials) would also been a very good Dr. Julia Hoffman on Dark Shadows. Also, the thought just came to me as I was typing the above that Gloria Hoye (The Brighter Day, As the World Turns, The Secret Storm, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Somerset, Another World) could possibly have played Pat Matthews Randolph on Another World.

Sometimes - especially on Dark Shadows. I watched most of the episode above from 1983. I had two questions; 1. Who was that actor speaking to Pat Ashley before Dr. Will Vernon and Capt. Ed Hall entered the scene? He was playing a decorator. 2. I do not remember the character of Doug, who I assume was a photographer. Was he on the show for very long?

Gary Swanson (Greg Mercer on Somerset and Mr. Finch on One Life to Live) would have been a good Steve Guthrie on The Edge of Night, in my opinion. What do others think?

Nina #3 (Barbara Kearns) was red-haired, and she also seemed to always have the sniffles.

I remember that, as a youngster, Aunt Edie (Ruth Warrick) returned once around Christmas time. What I can't remember is if her husband Dr. Frey returned with her. Can someone refresh my memory?

Could someone please remind me of how the character of Ron Christopher was introduced on The Edge of Night. I am sure that his character had already been on the show before the introduction of the Whitney family. He was already married to Cookie, i believe. But, how was he brought onto the show?

This afternoon, my mind has been on the late Irene Dailey. She is pretty much considered one of the great legends of soap opera although she only played two roles (on The Edge of Night and Another World). My initial thought was that she could have been good on A Flame in the Wind/A Time for Us as the writer Kate Austin. (I had been thinking that Kathleen Maguire had created this role, but that she had been replaced by Augusta Dabney. I may be wrong about Augusta Dabney having played the role.) Ms. Daily could probably have played many of the roles that Ms. Dabney did indeed play. I think that she would particularly been well cast as Ann Holmes on As the World Turns. Initially, I had thought that Ms. Dabney was older than Ms. Daily, but upon looking up their ages, Ms. Dabney was only two years older that Ms. Daily. There seemed to be a more-than-average difference age-wise between Ms. Dailey and Maeve McGuire. When they were on The Edge of Night together, they played women who had married the same husband. Nicole (Maeve McGuire) had married Duane Stewart first, and Pamela (Irene Dailey) was his second wife. Pamela was supposed to be very jealous of Nicole. Could that have been because of the age difference between Nicole and Pamela? Anyway, I think that Irene Dailey could have been very good in the Ann Holmes role on As the World Turns. Ann was an adoptive mother (of Amanda Holmes played by Deborah Solomon Steinberg). Amanda's birth mother had been Sara Fuller (Gloria DeHaven). (Oddly enough, Ms. DeHaven only played two roles on soap operas. On both As the World Turns and Ryan's Hope, her daughters had been adopted by someone else.)

I have a question about Roy Winsor (creator of Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life, The Secret Storm, Ben Jarrod Attorney at Law, and Another Life and writer of Somerset).Gu I have read that he was involved with Have Gun Will Travel. I am not certain if this was on radio or on television. I can find no reference of Mr. Winsor when I have read about this series. Can anyone clarify what his role was with this program? Here is the obituary for actor/writer/creator Frank Provo from the New York Times from November 22, 1975. Frank Provo, a radio and television writer, who in collaboration with John Pickard developed such television serials as “From These Roots” and “Concerning Miss Marlowe,” died Thursday night of cancer at his home in Great. Barrington, Mass. He was 62 Years old. Mr. Provo and Mr. Pickard, a writing team since 1945, also contributed to the “Dick Powell Show” and Ringling Brothers Circus spectaculars. Their radio serials included “Young Dr. Malone,” “My Son and I” and “Wendy Warren and the News.” They were the authors of the play “Dagmar” and the novel “The Education of Emily Adams.” In 1969 the writing team joined the faculty of Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington, and taught dramatic writing, and the following year took over the dramatic arts program. Mr. Provo graduated from the Pasadena (Calif.) Community Playhouse School of Theate Arts and acted with the NBC network through 1946. I had thought that he (or he and John Pickard) had once written Love of Life. ADVERTISEMENT

I have a question about Roy Winsor (creator of Search for Tomorrow, Love of Life, The Secret Storm, Ben Jarrod Attorney at Law, and Another Life and writer of Somerset).Gu I have read that he was involved with Have Gun Will Travel. I am not certain if this was on radio or on television. I can find no reference of Mr. Winsor when I have read about this series. Can anyone clarify what his role was with this program?

I had known that Sada Thompson had been hired and began filming before she was replaced by Betty Garrett. I had now known that Ms. Thompson had chosen to leave. Meredith Baxter was a replacement in the show for the first actress who played Nancy. Also, not much recognition is given to John Rubinstein, who played Nancy's husband. He was wonderful in the episodes on which he appeared. I read the TVGuide article above. One thing that the article failed to address is how actor/director Mark Rydell (The Edge of Night, As the World Turns) became involved with this program. Among daytime serial writers who wrote for this show are Liz Coe, Thom Racina, Anne Howard Bailey, Geri Day and Bethel Leslie. Also George Lefforts (the first executive producer of Ryan's Hope) wrote at least one script.

I am JUST ASKING about this, but how do you think that Alexandra Moltke Isles (Victoria Winters Clark #1 on Dark Shadows) would have been on Another World had she been cast as John's daughter Lee Randolph?

I am baffled about "Wingate." I thought that Nick Davis was her second husband. I did not watch the show during its early months and started watching it regularly in October 1971. It think that it was specified that her first husband was British royalty. I am sure that Phoebe certainly approved of that marriage.

Here is an obituary for writer Theodore Apstein from 1998. He was a writer for Another World. Theodore Apstein, 80, a Writer For Theater, Film and Television Theodore Apstein, a writer for theater, films and television, died on July 26 in Los Angeles. He was 80 and lived in Brentwood, Calif. The cause was a stroke, his family said. Mr. Apstein's theater work included ''The Innkeepers,'' which was produced on Broadway in 1956. Directed by Jose Quintero, the play starred Geraldine Page and Darren McGavin as a husband and wife who leave the United States for Mexico after he is deemed a security risk and is dismissed from his job. Another play, ''Come Share My House,'' was produced Off Broadway in 1960. He also wrote several screenplays, including ''Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice?,'' with Ms. Page, Ruth Gordon and Mildred Dunnock; ''Baffled,'' with Leonard Nimoy, and ''The Link,'' with Michael Moriarty and Geraldine Fitzgerald. He was also a prolific writer for television, with more than 100 shows to his credit. He wrote original scripts for such series as ''Studio One,'' ''Alcoa Playhouse,'' ''Dr. Kildare,'' ''Marcus Welby, M.D.'' and ''The Waltons.'' Mr. Apstein taught play writing at Columbia University and play analysis at the American Theater Wing before joining the faculty at the University of Southern California at Berkeley, where he taught the master class in the graduate play writing program for 27 years. He is survived by his wife, Patricia Elliott Apstein; two daughters, Catherine Ertel of Los Angeles and Susan Apstein of Phildelphia; three sons, Elliott, Norman and Michael, all of Los Angeles; a sister, Consuelo Patargo of Mexico City, and 11 grandchildren.

I have two questions: 1. Actress Grethen Kanne is credited as having played Susan Forbes. Susan was played mostly by the late Bibi Beesch. Did Ms. Kanne play the role originally? Was she replaced with Ms. Beesch? Or, was Ms. Kanne someone who was seen during the maternity leave of Ms. Beesch? I remember that Ms. Beesch left the show on a maternity leave and that the character was not seen for many weeks or months. She returned to the show to testify in Nicole's trial, then I don't think that she was ever seen again. 2. Wasn't there a Kennedy actress who played the role of Laurie? Or did she play another character (Phoebe, perhaps)?

While appreciating the etymology of the terms "going south" or "went south," the fact remains that many find it insulting and offensive. The term should never be used by speakers or writers who are considerate of others.

Actor Robert LuPone (Chester Wallace in 1979 and 1980) has passed away. Bob LuPone, a Tony-nominated actor and the founder of the off-Broadway MCC Theatre, has died. He was 76. The brother of Patti LuPone had been on a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. “The MCC Theater community mourns the loss of our much loved and uniquely inspiring partner, colleague, and dear friend, Bob LuPone, who lived fearlessly and with great curiosity, good humor, a boundless passion for connection, and a whole lot of heart. We will miss him deeply and always,” read a statement from MCC. LuPone was born on July 29th, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York to Angela Louise (known as Pat), a housewife, and Orlando Joseph LuPone, a school principal. His passion for the arts began at an early age. In the sixth grade at his North Port, Long Island elementary school, he saw his younger sister Patti dance at a PTA Dance Concert in a colorful hula skirt. After he told his mother how badly he wanted to wear the skirt, she told him that if that’s what he wanted then he’d have to enroll in dance class, which he did the following year. He started by taking tap lessons after school before enrolling in the Martha Graham Studio, where he studied under Antony Tudor, José Limon and Graham herself, from ages 15 to 18. LuPone got accepted to Juilliard after a friend suggested he audition, an audition that he improvised. He would graduate with a BFA in Dance in 1968. In 1966, he landed his first job as part of the ensemble of The Pajama Game starring Liza Minnelli. His Broadway debut would happen in 1968 in Noel Coward’s Sweet Potato and would later on appear in Minnie’s Boys, The Rothschilds, and The Magic Show. LuPone was cast as Al in A Chorus Line but when one of the actors departed the production, he asked to audition for the part of Zach, which he would land. This role led LuPone to score a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. A Chorus Line opened at the Public Theater, before swiftly transferring to Broadway. The production was nominated for 12 Tony Awards at the 1976 ceremony. While teaching an acting class at New York University, one of his students was Bernie Telsey, who together would form the Manhattan Class Company — known today as MCC Theatre. LuPone, Telsey and Will Cantler successfully led MCC for nearly 40 years producing shows like Frozen, Hand to God, School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. While serving as a co-artistic director of MCC Theater, LuPone continued acting appearing in Broadway productions like A View from the Bridge, True West, and A Thousand Clowns. He was also in the Chicago premiere of Sam Shepard’s The Tooth of Crime and made television appearances on shows like The Sopranos, Sex & the City, Guiding Light and All My Children, for which he received a Daytime Emmy nomination. LuPone is survived by his wife Virginia, his son Orlando, sister Patti, brother William

Actor Robert LuPone has passed away. He had played Tom Bergman #5 in 1983. Bob LuPone, a Tony-nominated actor and the founder of the off-Broadway MCC Theatre, has died. He was 76. The brother of Patti LuPone had been on a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. “The MCC Theater community mourns the loss of our much loved and uniquely inspiring partner, colleague, and dear friend, Bob LuPone, who lived fearlessly and with great curiosity, good humor, a boundless passion for connection, and a whole lot of heart. We will miss him deeply and always,” read a statement from MCC. LuPone was born on July 29th, 1946 in Brooklyn, New York to Angela Louise (known as Pat), a housewife, and Orlando Joseph LuPone, a school principal. His passion for the arts began at an early age. In the sixth grade at his North Port, Long Island elementary school, he saw his younger sister Patti dance at a PTA Dance Concert in a colorful hula skirt. After he told his mother how badly he wanted to wear the skirt, she told him that if that’s what he wanted then he’d have to enroll in dance class, which he did the following year. He started by taking tap lessons after school before enrolling in the Martha Graham Studio, where he studied under Antony Tudor, José Limon and Graham herself, from ages 15 to 18. LuPone got accepted to Juilliard after a friend suggested he audition, an audition that he improvised. He would graduate with a BFA in Dance in 1968. In 1966, he landed his first job as part of the ensemble of The Pajama Game starring Liza Minnelli. His Broadway debut would happen in 1968 in Noel Coward’s Sweet Potato and would later on appear in Minnie’s Boys, The Rothschilds, and The Magic Show. LuPone was cast as Al in A Chorus Line but when one of the actors departed the production, he asked to audition for the part of Zach, which he would land. This role led LuPone to score a Tony nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical. A Chorus Line opened at the Public Theater, before swiftly transferring to Broadway. The production was nominated for 12 Tony Awards at the 1976 ceremony. While teaching an acting class at New York University, one of his students was Bernie Telsey, who together would form the Manhattan Class Company — known today as MCC Theatre. LuPone, Telsey and Will Cantler successfully led MCC for nearly 40 years producing shows like Frozen, Hand to God, School Girls; or the African Mean Girls Play and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit. While serving as a co-artistic director of MCC Theater, LuPone continued acting appearing in Broadway productions like A View from the Bridge, True West, and A Thousand Clowns. He was also in the Chicago premiere of Sam Shepard’s The Tooth of Crime and made television appearances on shows like The Sopranos, Sex & the City, Guiding Light and All My Children, for which he received a Daytime Emmy nomination. LuPone is survived by his wife Virginia, his son Orlando, sister Patti, brother William