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Lucinda was the mother of Mimi King, who was introduced as the girlfriend of Asa when the Buchanan family was being introduced. Lucinda encouraged Mimi to get married to someone of wealth. Lucinda later married Chuck (Jeremy Slate), who was employed by Asa. Ms. Dahl was WONDERFUL in this role!

One Life to Live, in the later 1970s, had some recast of longterm characters, and I tended not to like these replacements. I am talking about the recasts of Anna, Vinnie, and Wanda. I don't know the order in which these came, so I am taking them alphabetically. Doris Belack left the role of Anna, and she had been on the show since the show's premiere. She later joined the cast of The Doctors (when it was produced by Doris Quinlan) and The Edge of Night (as Beth Bryson, R. N.) She was replaced by Katlhleen Maguire, who had appeared on A World Apart in a maternal role and (much earlier) on Three Steps to Heaven. I was a great fan of Ms. Maguire, and I really enjoyed her on One Life to Live. I thought that she was a very suitable replacement. Ms. Maguire later left the show, and the role was filled by Phyllis Behar. Ms. Behar was a seemed younger than the other two actresses and filled the role well. However, she was so different from the others. The role seemed to change, especially after Anna became a widow. Ms. Behar really put her bubbly personality into the role. I think that Ms. Behar was removed as a contract actress later and appeared on a recurring basis. The final scene with Anna was in 1982. The character later moved to Florida. The role of Vinnie was created by Antony Ponzini, and he was given a wonderful exit. The role was later played by Jordan Charney. (Both actors had worked with Agnes Nixon and Doris Quinlan on Another World.) His portrayal of Vinnie was not all that much different than the way he played Sam Lucas on Another World, except he sounded more ethnic (not particularly Polish, though). Mr. Charney left the show and was replaced by Michael Ingram. Mr. Ingram was chubbier than either Mr. Ponzini or Mr. Chaney. The comic talents of this actor were primarily what I remember about Mr. Ingram in this role. Vinnie was later poisoned by the imposter posing as Ted Clayton (played first by Keith Charles and later by Mark Goddard). Vinnie's wife was Wanda Webb Woleck. Wanda was created by the wonderful Marilyn Chris, who had earlier played Edie on All My Children. I missed the part of the show in which Wanda was in love with Joe Riley. She was already married to Vinnie when I began watching the show in 1976. Ms. Chris departed the show, and her replacement was Lee Lawson. Ms. Lawson tried her best to be Wanda, but she was lacking so many of the attributes of Marilyn Chris. Ms. Chris later rejoined the show and remained on the show for over a decade.

Yes, Ellie came onto the show as a patient in the hospital asking for Dr. Grant. He saw her and tried to ease her. Her request was that, if she passed away, he would care for her son Jesse. (No mention of Eugene was given.) Ellie and Frank had been estranged for many years, and I don't think that Frank knew that Ellie had a son (or two sons). She passed away, and Frank and Nancy resolved to take care of Jesse (who was initially resentful). After that, Frank, whose high blood pressure had been mentioned for several years, passed away. So, Nancy's home then consisted of Nancy, Aunt Bess, little Carl (named Carl Blair, Jr. although he was in fact the son of Frank) and Jesse Hubbard. Eventually Nancy met and married Mr. Fisher (whose first name I cannot recall). I am thinking that he was a meterologist at WMON, and they moved to Chicago. I am certain about the Chicago part, but am I correct that he was a television meterologist? This departure left Jesse in Pine Valley alone. (Of course, he had his friends Angie, Greg, Jenny and Alfred.) Weren't Frank and Nancy next-door neighbors of Ruth, Joe, and Kate? I know that Ellen and Mark lived in the same house, but I cannot remember who lived there first. It was a house that was powered by solar energy. Or, maybe Jesse and Angie bought the house from Mark and Ellen. Could Eugene and Jesse be half-brothers sharing the same father, and perhaps that was why Ellie did not mention him?

Actress Mary Alice has passed away. She played Mrs. Hubbard (I am not sure of her first name.) on All My Children. She was the sister of Dr. Frank Grant, the mother of Jesse and Eugene, and the grandmother of Frankie. She was a native of Indianola, Mississippi. Writer Jean Passante posted this on Facebook: I just heard that Mary Alice died. The depth and intelligence and ferocity of her acting was wondrous. I was privileged to cast her as Rose in the very first reading of August Wilson’s FENCES at the O’Neill. I was even more privileged to see her astonishing performance. I will never, ever forget the moment Troy brings home his dead lover’s newborn baby to his wife, Rose. ROSE: Okay, Troy . . . you’re right. I’ll take care of your baby for you . . . cause . . . like you say . . . she’s innocent . . . and you can’t visit the sins of the father upon the child. A motherless child has got a hard time. . . . From right now . . . this child got a mother. But you a womanless man. Mary Alice’s performance was devastating. Full of fire and ice. Forever seared on my heart and in my mind. One of the profound, treasured moments in the theater when I’m reminded why it matters. RIP, Mary Alice. I have since learned that her character was Ellie Grant Hubbard.

Jane Manning played roles on Love of Life, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and a dayrole on Another World. I think that she has been daytime television's greatest villianess. I did not see her work on Love of Life, but she was magnificent on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing as Jean Hurley Garrison. Jean was a divorced woman with a son (Andy) who was the second wife of Chandler Garrison. She forced Mark Elliott (husband of Laura Donnelly Elliott) into having an affair. She later had an affair with Dr. Peter Chernak. After Ms. Manning left New York, she moved to Texas (which I think was her original home) and became a playwright.

I don't know if this is helpful, and it probably is redundant. Humphrey Davies appeared as Dr. Featherstone on The Edge of Night in the early 1980s.

On the blog for Another World, the question was asked about who could have played "Aunt Janet" on Another World (the role created by the late Liza Chapman) had the role been brought back to the show while Harding Lemay was writing Another World. I want to ask the posters of this blog. My first thought was Barbara Berjer. However, she was under contract to Guiding Light at the time (playing Barbara Norris Thorpe #2). She had replaced Augusta Dabney on Guiding Light, so I thought about Augusta Dabney. However, Augusta Dabney had appeared on Another World as Laura Baxter, the wife of the man with whom Aunt Janet had been having an affair. Diana Douglas (Lily Chernak Donnelly on Love Is a Many Splendored Thing) is one possiblility. Lori March (many shows but best remembered as Valerie Hill Ames on The Secret Storm) is another possibiliay I can think of. Mary K. Wells (The Brighter Day, The Edge of Night, The Secret Storm, Return to Peyton Place) is another posibility. She was writing All My Children at the time - as was another actress/writer Clarice Blackburn (who also probably would have been good). Virginia Kaye had replaced Kay Campbell as Rose on The Edge of Night. But, Rose was off The Edge of Night during the time that Harding Lemay would have possibly brought back Aunt Janet to Another World. Ellen Deming (Meta Bauer Banning #4 on The Guiding Light) is someone who may have been good. I am not sure if she had retired or was just not working due to lack of roles duirng this time. Millette Alexander was still on The Guiding Light as Dr. Sara McIntyre Gantry Werner Thorpe Blackledge #3 at the time, so I won't consider her. But she certainly would have been a good candidate for this role. Gloria DeHaven had played Sara Fuller on As the World Turns and also later played Jillian's mother on Ryan's Hope. She was in California during this period and had roles in the ABC drama Nakia and the syndicated serial Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman plus guest appearences on many episodic television shows. I don't think that Rosemary Prinz would have considered Another World following her departure (and ultimate cancellation) of How to Survive a Marriage. But, one never knows ... I think that Maeve McGuire would have been an excellent choice. She left The Edge of Night, and I thought that she had no intention of being on another soap opera. But, one day, I was shock to learn that she had replaced Christina Pickles in the role of Elena on Another World. This role would probably have suited her better. I will try to think of others, and I hope that more possibilities will be offered by others!

Yes. I was just about to post: Corrections & Clarifications: An obituary for “Leave It to Beaver” actor Tony Dow was published in error. Dow’s representatives initially confirmed his death to USA TODAY by email after sharing the news in a Facebook post that has since been deleted. USA TODAY has reached out to his representatives for more information. "Leave It to Beaver" actor Tony Dow, who played Wally Cleaver in the popular sitcom, is in hospice, according to reports, less than three months after he announced that he had been diagnosed with cancer again. The 77-year-old actor and and his wife, Lauren Shulkind, put out a joint statement in May sharing the "very sad news" of his cancer diagnosis, though they didn't disclose details. Update: The New York Times has reported that the statement Dow’s representatives released to Facebook was inaccurate and he is still alive. In addition to the Facebook post, Variety ran the obituary after confirming the death with Dow’s team. Variety has reached out to his reps again for further comment. The family’s most recent Facebook message, from his son Christopher Dow, reads, “This is a difficult time. Dad is at home, under hospice care, and in his last hours. My wife and I are by his side along with many friends that have visited. He has a fighting heart.”

It is said that Ms. Chapman joined the cast of The Secret Storm, and I have assumed that she joined that show's cast after she had left Another World. Her IMDb biography lists her character as "Barbara Bradford" and states that she appeared on that show in two episodes.

Actor/director/sculptor Tony Dow (who played Chet on this serial) passed away earlier today. Mr. Dow later appeared on the serial General Hospital.

Thank you. I had been thinking that the spin-off was planned later during the run of Peyton Place.

Yes, it is Mr. Ponazecki. Again, I was aware of the storyline, but I saw little of it because of where I was attending college and the late of a CBS affliate in that town. I am thinking that he also appeared on The Edge of Night before the show moved from CBS to ABC.

Don Wallace and Paul Lammers were the original headwrtiers along with Agnes Nixon. Mr. Wallace and Mr. Lammers eventually left. Gordon Russell and Sam Hall from Dark Shadows replaced them. However, during the time that Paul Rauch was the executive producer, Mr. Wallace returned as a writer. He continued writing this show for quite a few years.

I was shocked tonight to see this in the above post from Slick Jones: Anne ___ Meadows Barbara Joyce 1959-61 adopted Dan Stewart of ATWT Dr. Joe Meadows John Boruff 1959-61 adopted Dan Stewart of ATWT I had known for many, many years that The Brighter Day and As the World Turns had shared the character of Mitchell Dru. I had never known, however, that there was this connection to As the World Turns. I was watching As the World Turns during the Ellen Stewart extended storyline, but I do not remember this at all ever being mentioned or shown. Could someone please give me more details about the connection of this two shows and anything about Dr. Joe Meadows and Anne Meadows?

Concerning Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, I loved the show. I also feel that it had its chance. There were just several things that hurt the show. The major thing was its wonderful cast. The show had in its midst (at least for a while) the wonderful quadangle of Leslie Charleston (Iris #1), David Birney (Mark #2), Donna Mills (Laura #1) and Ed Power (Spencer #2). The show was absolutely blazing with these four. Of course, there were others in the cast who helped to enhance them (Don Scardino and Rusty Thacker as Andy Hurley; Flora Campbell as Margaret Garrison; Susan Browning as Nancy Garrison; William Post, Jr. as Chandler Garrison; Judson Laire as Will Donnelly; Gloria Hoye as Helen Elliott Donnelly #2; Robert Burr as Tom Garrison #1; etc.). But, as sometimes happens to new programs, the contracts with the show reach the expirations, and there were departures. Of the great four that I mentioned, Ed Power left first (as I recall). Then the departures of Ms. Charleston, Ms. Mills, and Mr. Birney (plus Mr. Burr). I must say that Bibi Beesch as Iris #2 was superb and one of the greatest recast ever. But the other new performers (Michael Hawkins, Veleka Gray, and Brett Halsey) were not as brilliant. I liked all of them, but I do not think that the general audience did. Mr. Hawkins and Ms. Grey were eventually replaced again by Vince Cannan (whose performances I never saw) the late Tom Fuccello and Barbara Stanger. Albert Stratton, who replaced Robert Burr as Tom was also lackluster in my opinion. The character of Tom had a big storyline in which his first wife (Beverlee McKinsey in her first daytime role) returned to town and threatened to want her son (the late Shawn Campbell as Ricky Donnelly). This resulted in a murder for which Tom was accused. The character of Andy was originally supposed to be a gay man, but the show's owner (CBS) did not allow that. Mr. Scardino, a veteran of The Guiding Light and As the World Turns, departed and was replaced by Rusty Thacker. The Garrison family (Spence, Nancy, their daughter, Chandler, Flora, Jean, and Andy) were a very good soap opera family. The show eventually wrote all of them off with the exception of Spencer. The writers then introduced the almost-equally good soap opera family (the Hale family) and (after writing off the entire Hale family) introduced the Chernak family. The Hale family and the Chernak family did not acheive the popularity that the Garrison family had once had. Jane Manning, as Jean Hurley Garrison, was, in my opinion, the best soap opera villianess to ever appear on soap opera. She was usually compared to Lisa (from the show that came on just before this show on the CBS schedule, As the World Turns), but Jean could be so much meaner than Lisa ever tried to be. The writers of the show (after the departure of Irna Phillips) were Jane and Ira Avery. They had successfully written The Secret Storm before moving to Love Is a Many Splendored Thing. The couple, though, divorced. My understanding is that Jane Avery refused to work with her ex-husband any longer. They were replaced by Don Ettinger (The Secret Storm, A Flame in the Wind/A Time for Us), then by James Lipton (who has had a long career in writing shows, but never very successfully) and Ann Marcus (who I think had been headwriter of Search for Tomorrow). Then, in the midst of some of these cast changes, the show was moved one hour later when Procter and Gamble dictated that all of the shows that it owned must be presented in one block. The new time slot for the show was the one former occupied by The Edge of Night. The theme of Love Is a Many Splendored Thing (which had already featured Spencer as a politician running for the U. S. Congress and mixed up in a person scandal) became that of politics and mystery. (However, there was also a rape of Iris by her former boyfriend and now-brother-in-law Mark which resulted in a pregancy) The show was then being aired opposite One Life to Live on ABC and Return to Peyton Place on NBC. The network, CBS, considered cancelling all four of the shows that it owned (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, Where the Heart Is, The Secret Storm and Love of Life). However, probably due to the amount of time that The Secret Storm and Love of Life had been airing on the network, only Where the Heart Is and Love Is a Many Splendored Thing left the air in 1973. I am not sure why, but there were three different actors (Paul Michael Glaser, Michael Zaslow, and Vincent Baggetta) cast as Dr. Pete Chernak. He and his sister Betsy (Andrea Marcovicci) became step-sibblings of Iris, Tom and Laura when their mother Lily (Diana Douglas) married the widower Will Donnelly (Mr. Laire). Dr. Betsy Chernak and her boyfriend Joe Taylor were popular, but evidently not enough to carry the show. Dr. Pete Chernak and his wife, Angel, lacked chemestry in my opinion. During a part of the show's run, there were eighteen other soap operas on the air. Naturally, creative storylines were hard to show. There were a number of murders and murder trials along the way. I would say that the two biggest contributors to the show's cancellation were the cast changes of Iris, Spence, Mark and Laura and the move of the show into the former timeslot of The Edge of Night.

i stand corrected about who was playing Dr. Dorian Lord at the time of introductions of Pat and Brian Ashley. And, I too loved all of the actresses who played Dorian, but Claire Mallis was my favorite of them.

I am pretty sure that Nancy Pinkerton had left the show prior to the arrival of Pat Ashley. I began watching shortly after the Vernon family was introduced to the show. I remember the original Dr. Will Vernon, but the original Samantha had already left and had been replaced by Julie Montgomery. (I cannot locate the name of the original actress.) I was watching when Victor Lord died. Nancy Pinkerton may have played the role of Dr. Dorian Cramer Lord at that time.

I did not know that she was on Abbott's Elementary! I have watched the show (and a good impression was begun), but I had not recognized Ms. Ralph.

The spin-off show from Peyton Place is mentioned above. It was, as my memory recalls, to be called The Girl from Peyton Place and was to star Barbara Parkins as Betty Anderson Harrington Cord. I tend to think that the spin-off show came during the latter part of the run of Peyton Place, and that Our Private World had probably already been cancelled. I could be wrong, but this is what I tend to beleive.

These is probably redundant, but Jeanne Carson (wife of William "Biff" McGuire) appeared as the first wife of Dr. Tony Vincente on Search for Tomorrow. Oscar-winning actress Anne Revere (A Time for Us, The Edge of Night, Ryan's Hope) played her mother. Also, Grover (in addition to being the "man" of Lettie Jean) was the bartender at Foxy's. (This was on All My Children.)

My memory was refreshed this afternoon when I read that Joe Caldwell (one of the writers of Dark Shadows and, later, Strange Paradise) wrote for The Secret Storm in 1972. I was thinking that he must have been writing with the late Gabrielle Upton/Gillian Houghton, but what I read listed Robert Cenedella as the headwriter of The Secret Storm at the time.

My memory was refreshed this afternoon when I read that Joe Caldwell (one of the writers of Dark Shadows and, later, Strange Paradise) wrote for The Secret Storm in 1972. I was thinking that he must have been writing with the late Gabrielle Upton/GillianHoughton, but what I read listed Robert Cenedella as the headwriter of The Secret Storm at the time.

Also, concerning Susan (Judy Lewis), there is a lot of misinformation about the cast of The Secret Storm. (the whole show, not just the Susan character). o I watched the show as much as I could. I began college in August of 1973, and the town in which my college was located did not have a CBS afflliate. Therefore, I could not watch The Secret Storm. But, I do not remember that Judy Lewis ever left the show. It is reported online and probably in some books that Mary McGreggor (or MacGreggor) replaced Ms. Lewis, but I do not remember seeing her in the role. (Also, it is said that this is not the singer who, a little later in the 1970s had a top forty hit with "Torn Between Two Lovers" but it is odd that this actress and this singer share the same name. I do know, of course, that co-incidents happen.) Also, that Diana van der Vlis substituted for Ms. Lewis (which I did not see, either, but that probably happened). I really do not remember Mr. Loggia in the role of Frank (only Lawrence Lukinbill), but I have known for years that he did play Frank. i just do not remember. It is also reported that most of the Ames family had been written off the show (except Amy and her children), but I really do not remember Susan being off the show. Additionally, Grace Tyrell (Eleanor Phelps) had replaced Marjorie Gates, but she was seen sometimes. Valerie, although not an original member of the Ames family, was also on the show (with her new husband Dr. Ian Northcoate. So, if all of this is true (and my memory is somewhat ignorant because I was not getting to watch the show), only Peter and Jerry (and Aunt Pauline) were missing. I understand that Judy Lewis, at some point, was lobbying for the role of Nicole on The Edge of Night to replace Maeve McGuire. I do not know this for sure, but I have long felt that Mary K. Wells (who had been Louise #2 on The Edge of Night and Nola Hollister #3 on The Secret Storm) may have encouraged this. I also have learned that (This was in the early 1970s) that Haila Stoddard nearly replaced Ruth Warrick as Phoebe English Tyler on All My Children. Her husband and step-daughter (Whitfield Connor and Erin O'Connor) were employed (or had been employed) by ABC appearing in The Best of Everything. I do not know if this is why Ms. Stoddard left The Secret Storm or not, but it was probably after she had left the role of Aunt Pauline. Now, going back to the man in the mustard looking suit above, an idea has come to me. There was a district attorney named Ursulla Wintrhop who had a grudge against the Ames family. She procecuted Susan for the murder of Alan Dunbar. Ursulla's son was Doug Wintrop (played by Robert Sherwood). Mr. Sherwood is also known as Bruce Sherwood. I think it possible that this man is the one pictured. I seem to think of Doug being younger, but I guess not ....

The actress with the long hair and the vest is Ellen Barber. She replaced Audrey Landers as Belle's ward, Joanna Morrison Landers #2. When I first saw the man with her (last night), I had thought that it was David Ackroid as Kevin. However, that is wrong. I cannot remember who this actor or character are. I went back to see if this was Gary Sandy (Stace), but it is not he. It is also not Robert Landers (played by Dan Hamilton).

In the pictures above, who is the man shown with Susan (Judy Lewis)?