Everything posted by danfling
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The soap opera writers' discussion
He was a producer of Love of Life. That show was a sister show (both having been created by Roy Winsor and being owned by American Home Products) to The Secret Storm. So, both Mr. Hardy and Mr. Ettinger were familiar with each other. I would not be suprised if Mr. Ettinger had written Love of Life at some point.
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Soap Hoppers: The Soap Actors And Roles Thread
When did Denise Nickerson appear on The Doctors as Katie Harris? What was the name of the police character played on One Life to Live by John Amos?
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The Doctors Discussion Thread
Online at Wikipedia (which I know is sometimes/often incorrect) that Harding and Steven Lemay replaced Aaron Scott & Anne Marie Barlow as headwriters. I watched the show then, and I do not remember them as writers. Furthermore, I have never heard anything about them. Can someone add something about this (hopefully a confirmation for or against)? Also, when did actress Denise Nickerson (Dark Shadows, Search for Tomorrow) appear as Katie Harris on The Doctors?
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The Doctors Discussion Thread
Could someone tell me of the guest appearance on The Doctors by Don Imus?
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A World Apart
I just noticed that in the picture with Irna Phillips, that is NOT Augusta Dabney. It is the late Elizabeth Lawrence (who I had identified in the next picture). I had assumed (and I bet that a lot of other people did also) that when William Prince joined the show, that Augusta Dabney did also. Evidently, she did not. He only appeared on two soap operas without Ms. Dabney (his wife), and they were The Edge of Night and Search for Tomorrow (his final soap opera role). She appeared on many (Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, The Guiding LIght, Loving, and the serial General Hospital) without him.
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The soap opera writers' discussion
I want to ask if anyone has any comments on the work of Don Ettinger? I had thought for a long time that he was the creator of A Flame in the Wind. I was wrong, though. The co-creators were Raphael Hayes and Joseph Hardy. I think that he was one of the first writers. I don't know the length of the time that he worked on the show, but Gordon Russell was also a writer. I have seen one episode of the show, and I liked it. The female character, however, appear to have kept changing. Earlier, Mr. Ettinger had been a writer of The Secret Storm.
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Edge of Night (EON) (No spoilers please)
correction: Nora Fulton (real name Roxanne Walker) The Nora Fulton story was one of the best written for the series (although i was able to identify the killer from nearly the beginnning).
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Soap Hoppers: The Soap Actors And Roles Thread
I only remember Alice Haining's role on One LIfe to Live as Susan Johnson. How did the Bates come about?
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Search For Tomorrow Discussion Thread
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10212342012093547&set=a.10202005081516743.1073741825.1476967632&type=3 Is this Adam Wade the same one who appeared on Search for Tomorrow?
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"Secret Storm" memories.
When Allen Dunbar returned to Woodbridge in the 1970s, how was his not being with Ann Wicker explained? Had she died, or had the couple divorced?
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"Secret Storm" memories.
This memo was directed to Tony Converse. He would be the father of future-actor Frank Converse (One Life to Live).
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Soap Hoppers: The Soap Actors And Roles Thread
I know that I have already asked about Sylvia Field and her roles on radio soap operas. May I also ask about William Griffis. One obituary title mentioned that he was a radio actor. Could you list his radio roles (if any)?
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Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman Discussion thread
Actor and singer Tab Hunter, who played the father of Mary for a time, has passed away.
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Somerset Discussion Thread
She was also in the cast of CBS's The Ted Knight Show.
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Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
I believe that CBS had a hidden same sex romance on The Edge of Night in 1964 with the characters of Eve Morris and Kitty de Sena. Eve was a theatre owner who was in love with Malcolm Thomas, a reporter for the Monticello News. Malcolm met and fell in love with Elaine "Cooke" Pollock. They decided to marry, but they kept it a secret. Each was allowed to ONE other person. Then, when they decided to let everyone know, Malcolm had to tell Eve. She grabbed a pair of scissors and stabbed him to death. Cookie came into the room after Eve fled, and she was accused of killing him. Kitty was an actress who worked in Eve's theatre. She cooperated in every way with Eve in trying to conceal the crime. Later (after a trip to Mexico and a marriage for Eve), the truth was revealed in court. Eve said that she had killed the wrong one, grabbed the scissors (a court exhibit), and tried to kill Cookie. I believe that Kitty was in love with Eve, and that was the motivation behind her being an accomplice. Constance Ford played Eve; Valerie French played Kitty; Edward Kemmer played Malcolm; Fran Sharon played Cookie.
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The soap opera writers' discussion
When did he write The Doctors?
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The soap opera writers' discussion
One of the very best writers (Strange Paradise, Another World, For Richer, For Poorer/Lovers and Friends, Guiding Light), Harding Lemay, has passed away. What are your opinions of him? His son, Steven, also was a writer of Another World.
- All My Children Tribute Thread
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Guiding Light Discussion Thread
He won an Emmy award for his writing Guiding Light. Here is his New York Times obituary: O "May you celebrate a life well-lived and cherish the many..." - G.Guest Boo bituary Send Flowers LEMAY--Harding. Harding "Pete" Lemay, born March 16, 1922, died peacefully on May 26, 2018 at 96 years of age. The many friends and colleagues from his long and storied life mourn his passing. We knew him as a gentle and loving man of remarkable accomplishment and humanity. And we knew him as a great romantic. Our hearts go out to his beloved widow, Gloria Gardner. Playwright, teacher, memoirist, editor, and an early pioneer of television soap operas, he is said to have single- handedly written almost every episode of Another World from 1971-79 as head writer. He won a Daytime Emmy for that show and another for Guiding Light. Born into rural poverty, as the fifth of thirteen children near his mother's St. Regis Mohawk Indian reservation in North Bangor, New York, he escaped his parents' alcoholism and his father's suicide by running away to New York City at age 17, finding early refuge at the famous Brace Memorial Newsboys' Home. After Army service in World War II took him to France and Germany at the end of the war, he entered the Neighborhood Playhouse on the GI Bill to become an actor. By the mid-fifties, he was deeply ensconced in the world of books and publishing, He was co-host with Virgilia Peterson of a WNYC radio program Books in Profile leading to working at Alfred A. Knopf in 1958 as Publicity Director. He became Vice President and editor working with Elizabeth Bowen, John Updike, John Cheever. His ground-breaking memoir, Inside, Looking Out, Harper's Magazine Press (1971) was dubbed "an American classic" by Newsweek and "a literary event" by Saturday Review. It was nominated for a national book award for biography. A second memoir, Eight Years In Another World (Atheneum) was published in 1981. His deepest passion was for playwriting. He entered New Dramatists, the NYC playwrights laboratory, in 1963 along with John Guare and Lanford Wilson, where he became a long-serving board member. His 13 plays were first presented in readings and workshops at New Dramatists and featured his longtime friend and collaborator Marian Seldes. A devoted teacher, he taught literature and drama for many years at Hunter College and The New School for Social Research. As part of the Pen American Prison Writing Program, he read dozens of plays a year by incarcerated men and women. His first marriage, to actress Priscilla Amidon, ended in divorce. His second wife, Dorothy Shaw, died in 1994. He is survived by his wife of 20 years, Gloria Gardner of New York City; his son, Stephen Lemay and daughter, Susan Pain, and son-in-law, Kevin Pain; and three grandchildren. Published in The New York Times on July 4, 2018
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Strange Paradise
Harding Lemay began his serial writing on Strange Paradise. He evolved into one of the best writers for daytime television that there was. Here is his obituary from the New York Times: Obituary Send Flowers Guest Book "May you celebrate a life well-lived and cherish the many..." - G. View Sign LEMAY--Harding. Harding "Pete" Lemay, born March 16, 1922, died peacefully on May 26, 2018 at 96 years of age. The many friends and colleagues from his long and storied life mourn his passing. We knew him as a gentle and loving man of remarkable accomplishment and humanity. And we knew him as a great romantic. Our hearts go out to his beloved widow, Gloria Gardner. Playwright, teacher, memoirist, editor, and an early pioneer of television soap operas, he is said to have single- handedly written almost every episode of Another World from 1971-79 as head writer. He won a Daytime Emmy for that show and another for Guiding Light. Born into rural poverty, as the fifth of thirteen children near his mother's St. Regis Mohawk Indian reservation in North Bangor, New York, he escaped his parents' alcoholism and his father's suicide by running away to New York City at age 17, finding early refuge at the famous Brace Memorial Newsboys' Home. After Army service in World War II took him to France and Germany at the end of the war, he entered the Neighborhood Playhouse on the GI Bill to become an actor. By the mid-fifties, he was deeply ensconced in the world of books and publishing, He was co-host with Virgilia Peterson of a WNYC radio program Books in Profile leading to working at Alfred A. Knopf in 1958 as Publicity Director. He became Vice President and editor working with Elizabeth Bowen, John Updike, John Cheever. His ground-breaking memoir, Inside, Looking Out, Harper's Magazine Press (1971) was dubbed "an American classic" by Newsweek and "a literary event" by Saturday Review. It was nominated for a national book award for biography. A second memoir, Eight Years In Another World (Atheneum) was published in 1981. His deepest passion was for playwriting. He entered New Dramatists, the NYC playwrights laboratory, in 1963 along with John Guare and Lanford Wilson, where he became a long-serving board member. His 13 plays were first presented in readings and workshops at New Dramatists and featured his longtime friend and collaborator Marian Seldes. A devoted teacher, he taught literature and drama for many years at Hunter College and The New School for Social Research. As part of the Pen American Prison Writing Program, he read dozens of plays a year by incarcerated men and women. His first marriage, to actress Priscilla Amidon, ended in divorce. His second wife, Dorothy Shaw, died in 1994. He is survived by his wife of 20 years, Gloria Gardner of New York City; his son, Stephen Lemay and daughter, Susan Pain, and son-in-law, Kevin Pain; and three grandchildren. Published in The New York Times on July 4, 2018
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Search For Tomorrow Discussion Thread
I am sure you are right, Slick. However, I could have sworn that Jenny married Keith! Was Michael the role that Michael Sullivan played on the show? (I wanted Keith and Jenny together so much that I guess my memory made me think that they actually did marry.)
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Search For Tomorrow Discussion Thread
Jenny (Linda Gibboney) married Keith (Craig Augestine), and they left town with daughter Andie. Andie and Stephanie were very good together, and Andie should have remained.
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"Secret Storm" memories.
In the group picture, who is that on the right? Could the woman with her back to the camera have been either Jill #1 (Audre Johnston) or Jill #2 (Barbara Rodell)?
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Soap Hoppers: The Soap Actors And Roles Thread
Also: I know that Sylvia Field appeared on Search for Tomorrow, but did she have any radio soap opera roles? And also: John Lasalle (Dr. Gutherie on Dark Shadows).