Bill Bauer

That is a GREAT idea, Mitch!

He's abysmal and ruins most interviews but apparently there's nobody in his life caring enough to stage an intervention.

Wow. Great month for a great year for my favorite soaps!

I thought that was strange too. Why go through all that expense? If they wanted an Australian character, why not just hire a New York actor who can do an Australian accent? Isn't that what actors do? Accents and such?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKm_NA6sW0I&t=32s

Thank you for going the extra mile and how nice of her to write back! That mystery solved but I'm afraid the mystery of whatever happened to the Suzanne Davidson who played Betsy may forever remain a mystery.

At the risk of appearing to be a stalker, a sufferer of OCD or having way too much time on my hands, I went to the "adult" Suzanne Davidson's LinkedIn page and it says she was an "associate" from 1976-1978 and a "co-chief operating officer" from 1978-1983. These were the years the "child" Suzanne Davidson was a pre-teen and teen on ATWT so I don't think it's the same Suzanne Davidson. Unless she was very precocious.

Well, it makes sense to some degree. Young people are known to have an aversion to articles. Don't let the trolls get you down, vetsoapfan! Whoever is attacking you for preferring the best years of a genre or show is probably the type of person who considers Ellen Wheeler a visionary. Not worth getting upset about.

Wow. The Willmore connection is a giveaway. I never would have guessed that was her. In my eyes, they look nothing alike. Especially the nose. Maybe she's had some work done.

Do you think so?I was thinking it was't her because it didn't look anything like her. Of course, I'm sure she's changed a lot since way back then but I didn't think the facial features look similar at all. Maybe I'm looking at the wrong photo.

I don't think that's the same Suzanne Davidson.

I just watched the interview and was coming to write this very thing. I never liked VI because I never liked the way he came across on screen. I guess it was his characters. He seems very likable in real life.

It's not like they went out with a bang. They went out with a whimper. It's like they're celebrating the death of the show. Why would they want to celebrate and remember when the show was at its worst? I don't get it. It's not like a prime time show that decided to end their own run and go out in style.

Right? That was my first thought. Who cares about the last episode? It was the last episode for a reason.

How depressing to know only of soaps post '97. If that's all I knew of the genre, I would never had been a fan.

Yeah, I could have filled in the blanks out of sheer frustration at Alan's interviewing skills. I tend to do that a lot with his interviews.

It's interesting. The only place in Florida I would want to live in is Miami Beach (which I did for several years) but I know A LOT of people would rather live anywhere in Florida EXCEPT FOR Miami Beach. To each their own. I THINK, and I could be completely wrong about this, that Andy Kavovit said he lived in the Tampa area. He said during his interview but it wasn't clear because someone was talking over him (probably Alan). I think that's what I heard but, like I said, I could be completely wrong.

Interesting. I wonder what she did after she married Ned in 1941. There's no storyline mentioned for her after that. I guess she just hung out.

I can't speak for the ABC soaps because I never watched them but it was very rare for any soap that I watched at any time. Easter was just rarely mentioned in soaps except maybe The Guiding Light when they would have a sermon or sermonette on Good Friday. Part of that had to do with Easter not being a major holiday like Thanksgiving and Christmas and part of it had to do with Easter obviously falling on Sundays when the show wasn't on. I think for those two reasons, it was easy to just skip over Easter. I remember originally watching them celebrate Easter on ATWT during the 80s and thinking it was strange. Great but strange.

I suspected as such. Thanks again, Paul!

Yeah, I think that Variety review you posted is the only place that says it was a divinity student. Everything else I've read (2, maybe 3, other sources) said it was Ned. Who knows? As I've lamented before, there's a lot of misinformation in those history synopses. I would probably go more with something that was written at the same time that the story was actually being told which would be the Variety article I suppose. Where did you get those episode summaries? I knew the June 12, 1940 episode existed but I've been unable to find it. I never knew, however, that the May 7, 1945 episode or the August 14, 1945 episodes even existed. Is that from a museum website or something? Thanks so much for posting that! It gives me hope that there's a lot more out there than I'm aware of!

Thanks Jam. What a weird article that last one is! LOL

Interesting perspective. Thanks, DD!

Thank God!