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Here are a few facts that you need to know about Anna Stuart wife of James Cromwell. 1. Stuart had an unusual job of exercising horses at the race track. 2. Stuart considers Robert Redford as her role model. 3. Her role 'Donna Love' was created just for Anna Stuart as the producers were so impressed with her acting skills while she auditioned for the role 'Felicia Gallant' on 'Another World'. 4. Stuart lost her longtime companion David City due to heart failure in the year 2004. 5. Stuart is one of the very few actors who have appeared in three soap operas in one calendar year. (I guess that's AW, ATWT and AMC.)

So, I found out a bit more about this. For starters, Claire Labine created Jonathan, the character. That's divine! Then, Kreizman did the storytelling of Tammy & Jonathan together, aka "Jammy" but at the time he was also working very closely with Wheeler on it. And, the whole team just gets involved as it unfolds, which is really great. That's the way Writing Teams *should* function. What a comparison that is at the up front position: Ellen Weston with Sandy & the Sock puppet & Claire Labine with Jonathan finding his way to Springfield. One so awful & one so great.

"At NBC programmers admitted that they went to a 90-minute show 'because they couldn't come up with a better idea.'" In a February 2010 interview with We Love Soaps, Daytime Emmy Award-winning ALL MY CHILDREN writer, Wisner Washam, detailed exactly how focus groups go wrong: "The trouble really started with a Vice President of Daytime named Jacqueline Smith, who brought in all these new procedures and focus sessions. We never had focus sessions before. They required us to go and waste a morning watching 12 ladies from the Bronx discuss who they liked and didn't like. Jackie took the opinions of those 12 women as almost words from the Mount. We were asked to write according to their opinions." "Julie Pinson auditioned for the part of Lily when Chris Goutman had it in his head to burn Martha Byrne." - Donna L. Bridges After McKinsey left the role of Iris in November 1981, NBC's Texas eventually lost one million viewers in the Nielsen ratings and was canceled in 1982. Interviewing McKinsey was a dream. There were never any "I just love everyone I work with" cliches. After she exited Guiding Light, McKinsey cited her "not very pleasant" work environment for one of the reasons she chose to leave the daytime serial. Looking at her contract, she discovered she could leave the show after every six-month period. So McKinsey took advantage of the contract the day before her annual eight-week vacation. McKinsey went on permanent vacation. McKinsey adamantly defended her choice to exit the show. Her bosses felt they had been bamboozled.. "They're bent out of shape because, for once, somebody beat 'em at their own game," she said. "I had warned Jill (the show's then-executive producer Jill Farren Phelps) – although I don't think she paid attention to me – In addition to her issues with storytelling, which she said would not have motivated her to leave if her working environment had been happier, McKinsey noted that acting had simply stopped being fun for her. "The hours just made me crazy. They were too long," she explained [Fanlore has it that they were working her long days, 4 days per week. Fanlore also has it that Chris Goutman wanted Bev on "Another World" at the very end of the show, briefly, and that P&G wouldn't have any of it because they were bent out of shape at her departure from "Guiding Light" years before.] She moved West to be near her son, Scott McKinsey, a Director of soaps, and to be able to have a garden and spend time with her grandchild. MARY STUART...If America's three contributions to world culture are musical comedy, jazz, and soap opera, … ROY WINSOR ...lf Irna Phillips is to be called the mother of soap opera, then Roy Winsor must be called father of the television soap opera So, we all of us have some semblance of an idea of how fine a writer Irna Phillips was. And, how prolific. And, how timely. And, how she could direct, focus & aim at her target. I've just finished through the Bill Bell book, and all throughout they mention Irna's unpublished memoir or unfinished autobiography. Whichever it is, it is with Irna's papers at one or more locales. I talked to someone today who has read it & deemed it far from being ready to do anything with. As far as she knows Irna's daughter has died, which would put it into the ownership of Irna's son. What a terrible shame that the remarkable writer that Irna was couldn't have knuckled down & finished a fantastic memoir. After all, she had so many tales to tell and so many people to tell them about. I wonder if she just was not ready to die yet--and death caught her unawares. Earlier this year Days of our Lives celebrated the 50th anniversary of Susan Seaforth Hayes being on the show! They had flashbacks of much younger Julie, in San Francisco, on the rotary phone to first much younger Tom & then, after, to much younger Alice with them inviting her to return to Salem for a visit over the holidays. (Their rotary phones were on mantles, of all places. Would you put one there?) Corday arranged for Bill Hayes to be able to - once again - sing "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" to Julie. It was live! They did more flashbacks, where most of them were just Doug& Julie. He gave her one seriously passionate kiss. Later that week she was a guest on a Soap Opera Digest podcast with Stephanie & Mara & she revealed that she had never seen those early flashbacks before. She seemed somewhat taken aback at what she looked like in them. But, she looked fine & more than that, she looked like she really did in the show at the time. I was a fan then & already had a big crush on Julie. It was *years* before my father & I realized that we *both* had crushes on Julie.

Carrie Todd arrived in Springfield in March 1981. A new employee at Spaulding Enterprises, Carrie was a bright vivacious woman who immediately caught the eye of ambitious District Attorney Ross Marler. Carrie introduced Ross to jogging, health foods and spiritual well-being and after a whirlwind romance that humanized Ross, the pair became engaged. Unfortunately after the death of Diane Ballard, Ross would learn that Carrie was a lot more complicated than he thought. During the course of 1981, Diane Ballard made a name for herself as a devious blackmailer. She ordered Ross to see to it that Phillip (the baby swapped for Elizabeth's stillborn son, who was actually the biological son of Ross' brother and sister-in-law, Justin and Jackie Marler) was cut out of Alan's will, or she would tell Carrie that Ross had manipulated Amanda Spaulding. Diane also had documents proving that Henry Chamberlain had an illegitimate son with a woman named Stephanie Ryan, named Sean. Diane used this information to blackmail Henry into cementing a business deal with his old pal, H.B. Lewis that was favorable to Spaulding Enterprise. Also, Diane learned that Joe Bradley was working for the Chamberlains, without Alan's knowledge, and she was about to use that information against him. When Diane was fired by Alan, she was so stung by Alan's disloyalty and rejection that she icily threatened to reveal his collusion with Roger Thorpe, Paul La Crosse, Ramon de Vilar and Gonzalo Moreno. Then she started threatening Jackie and Justin with the knowledge that they were the biological parents of Phillip, which no one had yet told Phillip about. Finally, in September, Diane was found dead! A few weeks later, Joe was also found dead in his hotel room on his stomach with a huge gunshot wound with the bullet ripped right threw his heart! The Clayton police department called Mike Bauer and Lt. Wyatt since Joe was one of the suspects in Diane's murder. A few weeks later, the gun used to kill Joe would be found in the Springfield River. Apparently this gun was registered to Joe and had been wiped clean of fingerprints. Finally, in November, several people involved in the case started to suspect that something was not right with Carrie, especially after Ross discovered the information regarding Sean Ryan (Quint Chamberlain) in her apartment--information that he knew came from Diane. In the meantime, Carrie was covering up evidence that she murdered Joe and Diane! First, she burned her blood stained beige overcoat, then threw Joe's gun into the Springfield River, and finally hid Diane's briefcase under her bed. Not long after, and finally hid Diane's briefcase under her bed. Not long after, Ross found a suicide note written by Carrie, in their apartment. At the same time, Carrie went missing. Meanwhile, Vanessa Chamberlain, Henry Chamberlain, Jackie Marler, Justin Marler, and Ed Bauer converged on Ross and Carrie's apartment when they all got duplicate suicide notes from Carrie. Ross was getting anxious and started rummaging all through their apartment, and discovered Diane's briefcase under their bed. As Lt. Wyatt came to arrest Carrie, Carrie finally showed up with a knife pointed at her right wrist! Instead of committing suicide, Carrie confessed to murdering Joe and Diane but didn't tell them why. Because of her suicide attempt, Carrie was placed in Cedar's psychiatric ward while Ross left the D.A.S office so he could handle her case. After some digging, Carrie's past would be revealed. Years earlier, Carrie and Diane had worked at the Milwaukee firm of Laird & Sogard. While working there she'd fallen in love with a junior accountant named, Todd MacKenzie. They eloped and were happy until Carrie overheard pieces of a conversation between Todd and Diane, which led Carrie to believe that they were having an affair. In truth, Diane had pressured Todd to cook the company books, and string-armed his mother into mortgaging her home to make up for the shortfall. Just as Carrie learned she was pregnant, Todd was driven to suicide over Diane's duplicitous scheme, and as a result, his mother had a stroke. Emotionally devastated, Carrie spent time in a mental institution, where she gave birth to a baby boy. Because of her unstable condition, she felt unfit to raise the child and unwillingly gave him up for adoption to a couple child and unwillingly gave him up for adoption to a couple named Howard and Betty Long. Carrie related that she went to Diane's apartment that fateful night because her blackmailing of Ross, which triggered the memory of what happened in Milwaukee. Carrie and Diane argued and during a struggle, Carrie pushed Diane into the fireplace. After finding evidence to corroborate Carrie's story, namely the briefcase full of blackmail material which was found under Ross's bed, everyone was shocked when Carrie suddenly disappeared! Finally, Ross found her in Milwaukee after she had stopped by Jackie's father, Emmet Scott's house and hitting him up for $5000. Ross found her partying at a nightclub in Milwaukee and brought her back to Springfield for her trial. At the trial, Carried revealed what happened the day of Joe Bradley's shooting. After she saw Joe leave Diane's cordoned off apartment, Carrie followed Joe to his hotel room in Clayton. Carrie was very afraid that Joe might still use the in Clayton. Carrie was very afraid that Joe might still use the information he had in Diane's briefcase to blackmail not only Ross, but many of Carrie's friends. When Carrie entered Joe’s room to talk to him, He started to reach for his gun, after threatening Carrie, and Carrie saw it and went after the gun herself. Carrie got the gun and then pointed it at Joe, telling him that she wanted him to go to the Springfield police department, now. When Joe, refused he tried to sweet talk his way to get Carrie to let him go and Carrie yelled, "No!" Joe lunged for the briefcase and tried and get out of the hotel room, but Carrie beat him to the briefcase. Then Joe lunged at her and during the struggle for the gun, Carrie fired point blank at his chest and shot and killed him! After relating all of these events, at her trial, in January 1982, Carrie was acquitted by the jury who concluded that both Diane Ballard's and Joe Bradley's murders were accidents. Soon after, Carrie and Ross would marry in a beautiful ceremony. After the wedding, they honeymooned in Seattle, WA, which was where Carrie's son, Todd, was living with his adoptive parents. In Seattle, Ross was able to find out that the Longs would be dining at the Seattle space needle restaurant and took Carrie there at the same time so she could get a glimpse of her son. After seeing Todd Jr. Carrie broke down and cried to Ross and then told him she was just happy to see Todd and didn't need to actually meet him. Later, Carrie suddenly disappeared; she showed up a couple of days later, very confused and couldn't tell Ross where she'd been or what she had done. As they were getting ready to leave for Springfield, Carrie expressed her fear to Ross that she was being followed. Unbeknownst to everyone, there would soon be an explanation for Carrie's erratic behavior: she was suffering from split personality disorder. Carrie 1 was normal Carrie, Carrie 2 was Ross's worst nightmare-- a lying contemptuous slut, while Carrie 3 was a scared naive girl. Mere months after her wedding, Carrie 2 would have a one-night stand with not only Josh Lewis but also a teenage boy named Ron Kennedy who lived next door. These incidents would leave Carrie 1 totally shocked and Kennedy totally confused when a horrified Carrie rushed him out of the house. Later, Carrie 3 would make an appearance when both Ron and Ross got mad at her for unrelated reasons. Then one day, Justin saw Carrie putting her arms around Josh at Wired For Sound. Towers asking for Josh's room and repeated it to Ross. Ross went to Josh's and ultimately found Carrie sitting in bed, clutching the sheet around her. She seemed to be frightened and guilty and acted as if she didn't know where she is or what's happening. Hurt and angry, Ross shouted that he didn’t buy it anymore. Though Josh backed Carrie up, saying she had one of her blackout spells, an angry Ross refused to listen and knocked Josh out as Carrie cried out for them to stop fighting. Ross yelled that he didn't think Carrie knew what the truth is anymore, but HE knew what's been going on since she got to Josh's suite. Josh's suite. The following morning, Ross returned to the carriage house to see Carrie 2 shredding her wedding dress! Enraged, she attacked him with the scissors! During the struggle, Carrie 2 got the upper hand and was about to kill Ross when suddenly Carrie 1 emerged and stopped, thus saving his life. While she laid sobbing in Ross's arms, he promised that he'd get her help. In therapy with Dr. Sara McIntyre, it finally became apparent that Carrie was suffering from multiple personality disorder. During therapy, Carrie 1 continued to have blackouts, with Carrie 2 continue to threaten Ross's life and Carrie 3 saddened by the havoc that Carrie 2 had wrought to that nice man, Ross Marler. Finally Sara was able to convince Carrie 3 to give her strength to Carrie 1, which enabled Carrie to start to get better and agree to extensive therapy in England. Before leaving for England, Carrie called Jackie to explain her behavior and admit that there was no affair. Tragically, Jackie, finally flying back home, would lose her life in a plane crash. Months later, Carrie would write Ross asking him to divorce her so he could go on with his life. Executive Producer at the time, Allen Potter, fired Jane, doing away with the role entirely. Headwriter at the time, Douglas Marland, quit in protest. He went to "Loving" after "Guiding Light".

Network: NBC Episodes: 8,891 (30 – 90 minutes) Seasons: 35 TV show dates: May 4, 1964 — June 25, 1999 Series status: Cancelled/ended Performers include: Audra Lindley, Irene Dailey, Shepperd Strudwick, Hugh Marlowe, Virginia Dwyer, Michael M. Ryan, Joseph Gallison, Carol Roux, Beverly Penberthy, Susan Trustman, Constance Ford, Robin Strasser, George Reinholt, Jacqueline Courtney, Sam Groom, Victoria Wyndham, Margie Impert, Douglass Watson, Beverlee McKinsey, Anne Meacham, Jacqueline Courtney, Susan Harney, Cathy Greene, Jennifer Leak, Michael M. Ryan, Beverlee McKinsey, Christine Jones, William Gray Espy, David Bailey, Christopher Rich, Nancy Frangione, Vana Tribbey, Linda Borgeson, Jennifer Runyon, Laura Malone, John Considine, Anna Stuart, Kale Browne, David Forsyth, Barbara Berjer, Linda Dano, Anna Kathryn Holbrook, Anne Heche, Laurence Lau, Joanna Going, Sally Spencer, Ed Fry, Richard Burgi, Sandra Ferguson, Matt Crane, Alexandra Wilson, David Bailey, Jacqueline Courtney, Beverly Penberthy, Dorothy Lyman, Nicolas Coster, George Reinholt, Christine Jones, Victoria Wyndham, Jensen Buchanan, Carmen Duncan, Cali Timmins, John Aprea, Alicia Coppola, Alla Korot, Ricky Paull Goldin, Julie Osburn, Stephen Schnetzer, Anne Howard, Chris Robinson, Alice Barrett, Judi Evans Luciano, Tom Eplin, Cali Timmins, Judi Evans Luciano, Joseph Barbara, Christine Tucci, Mark Pinter, Robin Christopher, Charles Keating, Paul Michael Valley, Victoria Wyndham, Alice Barrett, and Lisa Peluso. TV show description: Set in Bay City, Illinois, this long-running soap opera was the first to air one hour episodes and follow the loves and losses of the Matthews, Cory, Hudson, Frame, and Winthrop families. Created by Irna Phillips, the series begins with the death of the wealthy William Matthews (Joseph Gallison). His wife Liz (Audra Lindley, later Irene Dailey) despised her late husband’s family, especially working-class brother Jim (Shepperd Strudwick, later Hugh Marlowe) and his wife Mary (Virginia Dywer). The tension and disagreements between the two families provides much of the storyline’s initial conflict. As the series continues, the lives and loves of Jim’s children — Russ (Sam Groom, later Robert Hover and David Bailey), Alice (Jacqueline Courtney), and Pat (Beverly Penberthy) — become much more prominent. The love triangle between Alice, businessman Steve Frame (George Reinholt) and the scheming Rachel (Robin Strasser, Maggie Impert, Victoria Wyndham) helped the show gain popularity. Later, Rachel finds love with magazine editor Mackensie “Mac” Cory (Douglas Watson) despite the protests of his daughter Iris Carrington (Beverlee McKinsey), who was the same age as her step-mother. Mac and Rachel’s children, Amanda (Sandra Ferguson) and Matthew (Matt Crane), follow suit and endure their own trials and tribulations in love with artist Sam Fowler (Robert Kelker-Kelley, Danny Markel and Brian Green) and Josie Watts (Alexandra Wilson). The series also spawned the first soap opera spin-offs (Somerset and Texas). Cast members that went on to film and television careers afterward include Christine Beranski, Kelsey Grammar, Anne Heche, Ray Liotta, Lindsay Lohan, Luke Perry, Brad Pitt, and Kyra Sedgwick. Series Finale: Episode #8,891 Cass and Lila are finally married. Rachel reminisces with Carl and remarks, “All’s well that ends well.” She adds a photo to a group of framed family pictures, and walks around the living room, surveying collections of photos of characters from the past and present. The two embrace, kiss, turn out the lights and climb the stairs, arm in arm. The scene fades to black and and we see a still frame shot of Mac Cory (Douglass Watson) with his glass lifted in one of his toasts to the audience! Broadcast: June 24th & 25th, 1999, a two-day finale; Susan D. Lee, of NBC Daytime, gave the remaining soap opera on the air, "Sunset Beach", a 6 month extension, something that no one could understand. The show had several waves of fan activists working to keep the show on the air - The Another World Fan Brigade & after that The Committee to Save Another World. In June 2000 fans raised $5,000 to buy a bench in Central Park as a permanent memorial to the show. It took a year to raise the money & then a dedication was held in June 2001. A rare copy of "Eight Years in Another World" was auctioned off; a statue of Victoria's was auctioned off; a picture out of the Cory living room was auctioned off; then fans could spend $10.00 each to get videos - The Lovely Ada, A Cory Christmas, Mac & Rachel; Rachel & Carl. Those videos are up online, by my name "Donna L. Bridges". (I just happened to have 2 copies of "Eight Years in Another World" so it was no big deal to put one up. Melissa was in touch with the AW Bench Conservancy. I took care of the Post Office & bank. Carolyn had 3 VCRs set up all the time & did all the editing & dubbing!)

Just from the Epilogue of Eight Years in Another World © 2011 Despite their opinions about what I had originally written in this book, Procter & Gamble would still hire me from time to time, for short periods as headwriter, and for longer periods as story consultant for ANOTHER WORLD and for other soaps they produced. (I wish he'd said which soaps. I know he functioned as a consultant for JFP on some soaps.) From IMDB: Writer (8 credits) One Life to Live (TV Series) (1 episode, 1986) (writer - 1 episode, 1999) (associate head writer - 1 episode, 1999) - Episode dated 1 July 1999 (1999) ... (writer) - Episode dated 3 May 1999 (1999) ... (associate head writer) - One Life To Live (1986) ... (uncredited) The Doctors (TV Series) (story by - 8 episodes, 1982) (teleplay - 1 episode, 1982) Guiding Light (TV Series) (4 episodes, 1981) (writer - 2 episodes, 1980 - 1981) 1971-1979 Another World (TV Series) (1,215 episodes) 1977 For Richer, for Poorer (TV Series) (series co-creator) 1970 Strange Paradise (TV Series) (58 episodes) 1970 NET Playhouse (TV Series) (adaptation - 1 episode) - They Have Taken Over (1970) ... (adaptation) 1951 Search for Tomorrow (TV Series) (head writer - 1981) 1995-1996 Another World (TV Series) (consultant - 13 episodes) 1985 As the World Turns (TV Series) (creative consultant - 1 episode) - Episode dated 1 August 1985 (1985) ... (creative consultant) 1977 For Richer, for Poorer (TV Series) (story consultant) Hide Producer (1 credit) 1996 Another World (TV Series) (consultant - 1 episode) - Episode #1.7995 (1996) ... (consultant) Hide Self (1 credit) 2012 Soap Life (Documentary) Himself

Melissa Scardaville speaks out about GUIDING LIGHT once more Melissa Scardaville published a note. April 19, 2009 Another GL Note I wrote this on 4/2, right after GL was canceled. Thought I would post it. Enjoy. In 1941, in the midst of World World II, the Citizen Kane premiere and Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak, Guiding Light was canceled for the first time. Around 75,000 angry letters convinced Procter & Gamble, the show's sponsor, to return the serial to the airways. Decades later, GL became broadcast history's longest running drama, enjoying a 72-year run that produced over 15,000 episodes and launched the careers of acting luminaries such as Cicely Tyson, Kevin Bacon and Allison Janney. On April 1, 2009, Guiding Light endured its second and final cancellation, one that cannot be overturned by viewer outrage. When the show airs its final episode in September, a vital and integral part of American history will cease. It's easy to dismiss that claim as grandiose. After all, it's only a television show, or worse it's only a soap opera. Yet it is its very identity as a soap opera that makes its loss so acute. America can embrace very few inventions as her own. While baseball and jazz are sources of pride, soap operas, a genre created in the 1930s by former school teacher Irna Phillips, are stigmatized in the United States. Given this ostracism, many people miss what soaps actually are: a treasure trove of our culture's shifting attitudes and ideas, desires and ambitions. Soap operas offer an ongoing record of our collective memory where no single person or group can claim authorship. On the rare occasion that a U.S. daytime soap leaves the airways, talk focuses on the missteps made by the show themselves. Guiding Light is not simply a casualty of its own mistakes but is emblematic of a moribund television industry. Television thrived in eras when daytime earned windfall profits for networks and production companies; primetime banked on the occasional blockbuster and syndication deals. That model has been dead for years yet networks operate as if that paradigm can be revived. They convince themselves that the Internet, cable channels and fickle viewers are simply blocking their pathways to success. The thing is, networks don't really know who watches television, how they watch and incorporate the programming (or not) into their daily lives and why people watch in the first place. Answers to these questions would not matter as much if big decisions and big money didn't ride on them. The ratings are broken and Guiding Light is one victim. At this stage people talk about the inevitable. Of course, Guiding Light would be canceled. Soaps are dying, after all. What is not said is that soaps are dying, not out of disinterest, but neglect. A genre that has nurtured countless innovations can only survive so long when our culture treats them as back alley laboratories. It was not inevitable that Guiding Light stay on the air for 72 years, just as it was not inevitable that the show leave now. Since it will depart, let us take a moment to acknowledge that these decades of narratives have stretched over and connected generations. Let us acknowledge that anyone who sits down to enjoy any television show owes a debt to Guiding Light. -Melissa Scardaville (Melissa was a prior GL Editor at Soap Opera Digest.)

In late summer NBC approved expanding the show to a full hour. ... Mac Cory moved his gigantic publishing complex to Bay City at the same time that we went to a 60 minute show. ... Decisions were made to kill off Steve Frame & dispense with Mary Matthews. ... The long famous/infamous triangle of Alice/Steve/Rachel was going to segue into a new triangle of Rachel/Mac/Iris. ...

Bob Short phoned me the Sunday before Christmas to tell me Irna had died unexpectedly in her sleep. The news surprised and saddened me for she had seemed indestructible after forty years of creating concurrent worlds of love, divorce, disease, desertion and illegitimate babies. ... Steve Frame bribed Rachel's father into perjuring himself and won his divorce from Rachel and asked Alice to marry him a second time. I quite agree! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To add to our difficulties, the actor playing Eliot declined to renew his contract. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the spring Steve Frame was sent to prison for bribing a witness and his former father-in-law, Gerald Davis, was sent, too. In July Ada's eagerly awaited baby was born. Little Nancy was named after Nancy Wickwire, who was in the final phase of a terminal illness.

(More) Reinholdt's on-camera truculence became off-camera belligerence as he interrupted tapings and rehearsals with abusive arguments about scripts and alienated the production staff and other actors by professional discourtesies and atrocious manners. ... Both Nic Coster and James Douglas (Eliot) were developing followings. There seemed to be possibilities to alter the ingredients of triangles. ... Vicky Wyndham continued to dominate. ... I had asked about developing more for Ada & was given the go ahead to develop a romance for her. Dolph Sweet was the actor that was chosen for Connie Ford. ... Eliot moved his household to Bay City. ... I had survived two years of writing a soap opera without resorting to murder, amnesia, an illegitimate baby, or courtroom scenes. ... Pete's wife Dorothy suggested a late-in-life pregnancy for Ada. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Watergate Hearings pre-empted ANOTHER WORLD so often that summer that my scripts were seven weeks ahead of their taping dates. ... Pete & Dorothy planned the first vacation they had had in six years! ... Back in New York ANOTHER WORLD had been solidly number one for a month. ... There was a coincidental "bugging incident" in the AW script.

From Eight Years in Another World by Pete Lemay ... By Labor Day Victoria Wyndham had surpassed any lingering ill will from Robin Strasser fans. The part of Rachel was now her own. An actress of wider emotional range and more varied response than had been Robin Strasser, she changed the character faster and more deeply. I was more than happy to follow where she led. ... We got many letters that said that Steve Frame wasn't worth it but if Rachel really wanted him, she should have him. ... Our ratings rose steadily. ... Our choice for Iris Carrington was without any doubt Beverlee McKinsey. Her blonde fastidiousness was balanced by Victoria's dark volatility.

1996: Bay City was plagued not only by one, but by two (two!) serial killers. (1) A mercy killer was disconnecting people who were connected to life support machines. The police captured that one, when they began to search for (2). He was Dr. Fax Newman and was killing woman after woman to cover up for the actions of his past. It was no coincidence that Maggie De Priest had written the David-O'Brian-acted Sin Stalker storyline in the late 1980s and was now back as head writer at "Another World." Fans protested not only the senseless decision for Fax to kill off the popular heroine Frankie Frame (Alice Barrett) but also the brutality of it. Afterward, writers, directors and producers all began to blame each other. Some fans left the show. DePriest: The Doctors Head writer: 1976 All My Children Head writer: 1989 Another World Head writer: March 1986 - January 1988, May 1996 - January 1997 Days of Our Lives Associate head writer: October 21, 1981 - April 19, 1982 Head writer: April 20, 1982 - September 21, 1984 Co-head writer (with Sheri Anderson and Thom Racina): September 24 - October 25, 1984 General Hospital Co-head writer (with Pat Falken Smith): 1980 - 1981 The Edge of Night Co-head writer (with Lou Scofield): mid-1960s One Life to Live Associate head writer: 1990 - 1991 Sunset Beach Co-head writer with Christopher Whitesell: August 1998 - December 1999 Where the Heart Is Co-Creator (with Lou Scofield) Co-head writer (with Lou Scofield): 1969 - 1970 JFP had just been firing people over 55 - Barbara Berjer & David Hedison & was going to add Anna Stuart to that list. The fan groups pitched a fit. NBC's Susan D. Lee & PGP's JFP held focus groups between 2 mid-level actresses - Alice & Judi. Alice lost. Awful brutal murder scene. It served SD Lee right to be fired my NBC within a few months time.

1991: Dack Rambo (Grant Harrison #1; with twin brother Dirk Rambo) made national news when he left "Another World" when he found out that he was HIV-positive. He died in 1994. He devoted those final years of his life to fund-raising and awareness, etc. When Mark Pinter assumed the role of Grant Harrison #2 he could often be seen wearing a red AIDS ribbon on his lapel. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1992: "Another World" tried something a little more daring for this Valentine's episode. A sleeping Cass dreamt himself into the shoes of Cass A. Nova, an old-time detective. His ex-girlfriend Francesca Kinkead hired him to find a missing piece of jewelry - a heart. Anna Stuart - socialite, David Forsyth = doctor, Linda Dano - gypsy. Titled "The Case of the Stolen Heart" it was in black & white. When Cass awoke he got the message and ran out & found Frankie and asked her to marry him. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1993: Cass dreamt himself into a story again, "Murder on the Orient Express". In real life Cass was married to Frankie. Cast members once again slipped into different characters except for Cass himself and three of his former lovers - Cecile, Kathleen, and Nicole. The three disappeared one by one. The culprit turned out to be Frankie. She had been ousting them. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1995: Clips featuring Felicia, Frankie, and Cass were shown on the NBC sitcom "Friends". Rachel was taking care of Ross's pet monkey and spending the time with him explaining the action and characters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1995: When Robyn Griggs (one of the three Maggie Corys) was fired she went to the tabloids, "Extra" and "Hard Copy" and stated that she'd been fired because of her friendship with John Wayne Bobbitt. Bobbitt who had his penis cut off by his wife who was disputing with him. "Another World" declined to comment. But, former co-star Anna Holbrook told "Soap Opera Weekly", that the relationship with John Wayne Bobbitt was the last straw in a long string of problems they'd had with the young actress. Robyn's primary job as an actress was as a 'Scream Queen' which "Another World" really didn't need. ME: I've known people over the years who ran into Robyn online.)

The link for the AW bible is http://anotherworldhomepage.com/bible.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1991: Former head writer Donna Swajeski, an admitted MTV fan, wanted to incorporate rock music and videos into the show. Such a move, the producers agreed, could bring in younger viewers in higher numbers. A music video storyline was built around Dean Frame's (Ricky Paull Goldin) romance with Jenna Norris (Alla Korot). A contest was held to find Dean a backup band. Eight hundred tapes were received from rock groups wanting to be on the show. Viewers called in to vote on which band they liked best. A New Jersey-based band named Rascal won the honors. The video for "Lady Killer" took twenty-three hours to tape and cost almost as much to produce as an entire episode of the show.

Bette Davis was a daily watcher of all 3 PGP soaps - AW, ATWT & GL. Watched GL: Roy Rogers, Dale Evans, Aretha Franklin Isiah Thomas, formerly of the Detroit Postons, currently Vice-President of the Toronto Raptors, watches AMC, OLTL, and GL. In college he would not take courses that were scheduled in the afternoon. He appeared on the 1993 Daytime Emmys in a segment highlighting celebrity soap fans!

Anne Meacham, on "Another World", was most famous for playing the eccentric maid, "Louise Goddard". She played the role from 1972 to 1982. [1] Meacham's character was most recognized for "naming" all of the Cory family's houseplants, which numbered well into the dozens. [2] The trademark of the "Another World" casting department was to hire heavily from the New York City stage, and it was noted by author Annie Gilbert in the book, "All My Afternoons",[3] that Meacham was one of the many cast members taken from this genre to infuse strong acting performances into the show, due to her experience. She was heavily cast in Tennessee Williams plays. And, she was given credit for saving his life when he had a nervous breakdown. She is most famous for her roles on and off-Broadway, most notably in adaptations of plays written by Tennessee Williams, who was a close friend. Williams once wrote an editorial in The New York Times praising Meacham, noting "There's nothing she won't say or do onstage without any sign of embarrassment" ([1]). She won two Best Actress Obie Awards, one for her role as "Catherine Holly" (the first actress to play the role which was later essayed by Elizabeth Taylor in the film version) in Tennessee Williams "Suddenly, Last Summer" (1958) and another for the title role in Henrik Ibsen's "Hedda Gabler" (1961). She mentioned again that she was very impressed with the level of research on your site. (Eddie Drueding's Another World Home Page) She asked me to tell you that the section on plant names, and the quotes, contain many errors, probably because you have not seen the tapes of the show. Apparently the idea of the plant names was Ira's creation, and all were based solely on Greek mythology. Whenever the plants were named, there was some parallel to stories from Greek mythology. Anne says she carried a copy of Bullfinch's Mythology with her to familiarize herself with the stories before performing the scenes. According to Anne, there were some intern writers who were "precocious" and thought the plant names were funny, gave them names in the script (such as Mr. Belvedere). Those names (and all of the humorous lines you sent me to show her) never made it to the final show because Ira or Anne cut them out or altered them. Anne also told me that while she knew she was biased, she felt that the AW ensemble was unique, because the producers went to off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway shows to recruit actors. This gave the company more of a "stage" personality. Most of the actors, she said, would often stay the whole day to watch their fellow cast members perform and give them audiences. This was very unique to AW among soaps, according to Anne.another for the title role in Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler (1961). She is most famous for her roles on and off-Broadway, most notably in adaptations of plays written by Tennessee Williams, who was a close friend. Williams once wrote an editorial in The New York Times praising Meacham, noting "There's nothing she won't say or do onstage without any sign of embarrassment" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Victoria Wyndham Pays Tribute to Douglass Watson at the 1989 Daytime Emmys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqZAqVs3pTI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqZAqVs3pTI Preview YouTube video Victoria Wyndham Pays Tribute to Douglass Watson at the 1989 Daytime Emmys

Guiding Light. A 50th Anniversary Celebration. by Christopher Schemering. Ballantine Books: New York. "In memory of Charita Bauer 1922-1985" ©1986. Acknowledgments: For interviews, I would like to thank Michael Crawford, who provided wonderful photographs and anecdotes about his mother, Charita Bauer; Ellen Demming, whose warm reminisces reactivated my childhood memories of Meta and Bert; Bridget Dobson, who's just as sassy as the characters she creates; Gail Kobe and Joe Willmore, who love to talk shop just as much as I do; Douglas Marland, who is not only a great writer but one of the nicest men in the business; Agnes Nixon, whose infectious laughter got me over my nervousness interviewing one of television's true legends; Arthur Peterson, who made the radio days come alive again; and last but certainly not least , Lucy Rittenburg, a creative force whom I admire enormously. etc. "After the Soderburgs left GL to write ATWT, the show went through three other HWs---James Gentile, Robert Denedella and again James Lipton---that made ten different writing regimes in just as many years! What was obviously needed were writers who would bring continuity to GL and bring the show 'into the twentieth century.' In 1975, P&G found them in Bridget and Jerome Dobson, who successfully contemporized GL over the next five years." "When we were writing GH," Bridget recalled, it was a reflection of my parents. (Frank and Doris Hursley, show creators.) so GL was our first time out of the nest. It was a terribly exciting period for us." Also we got away from all the fluff, ... like a scene began, someone asked if they can take your coat and how you were, etc. We quickly cut that out and got directly into the dramatic conflict. "The Dobsons wrote beautifully constructed stories, centering on a series of intricate romantic triangles---Ed, Rita, Holly---and even quadrangles---Jackie and Justin Marler and Elizabeth and Alan Spaulding." The Dobsons zeroed in on Roger Thorpe (played by Michael Zaslow), who was to be the sexiest villain the soaps had ever known. Roger seduced both of Ed Bauer's wives and Ed's half sister as well. "Well, that does seem a bit perverse," Bridget laughingly admitted. "But there is a slight bit of perversity in us. That's me. That's my husband. We're ambivalent people. We always strive for purity and 'always' miss!" Roger was our ambivalent villain, our catalyst, and he motivated both story and character. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Rita-Roger-Ed story we loved writing, and I'm very proud of the Holly-Roger-marital-rape storyline. We based that on the Rideout case and researched it at the Rape Crisis Center in Oregon where, Mrs. Rideout had gone. "Thinking back on it, it was one of the happiest times in our writing career. We got along very well with the producer Allen Potter." --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- When the Dobsons went to "Santa Barbara" Douglas Marland came in at GL and they told him he had three months to get rid of Roger Thorpe, who wanted to go on to other work. That's how the monumental death in the Dominican Republic came about. When the 1979-80 Emmys rolled around, GL submitted a tape with scenes from three different shows: Holly shooting Roger; Roger remembering his rapes of Holly and Rita; and Roger chasing a pregnant Rita through a carnival hall of mirrors to a recording of Barbra Streisand/Donna Summer duet "Enough Is Enough". GL won that Emmy and then two more Emmys after that. Television. It had everyone worried---except for Irna. Despite the fact that her first foray "These Are My Children" had been a huge flop in 1949 on NBC she was determined to make serials work in the new medium. Roy Winsor already had---with both "Search for Tomorrow" and "Love of Life" in 1951. Her dilemma was whether the faces and demeanor of her characters would transfer to the television audience. Executives kept asking her if women at home would really take the time to sit and watch! After they viewed the two pilots Irna produced with her own money they decided to go ahead with them. Lucy Rittenburg said, "We were in a sink-or-swim situation. Aggie and I (associate writer) were with Irna step-by-step. Other women made the mistake of competing with Irna. We did not go there. It turned out we had one of the better working relationships!" To illustrate how contrary Irna could be: we set up to go into color production. Everyone was excited ---but Irna. The first day the set was a hospital room! All white! A disaster! "When we were casting Morgans," Douglas laughed, "Betty Rea---who is the best casting director in the business---sent me a tape of seven Morgans, and there was an extraordinary creature on the tape who was nowhere close to the concept of Morgan. She was Lisa Brown! Betty said, "I know she is wrong for Morgan, but some show is going to grab up this girl, Douglas, and I suggest you grab her first!" "The unravelling of the Carrie story when she came in exhausted and confessed everything to Ross; I thought Jane Elliot was terribly moving. Doug left the show after disagreements with the producer. Potter felt the ratings at the height of the Carrie story were not sufficient to carry on with future story for Carrie. So, actress Jane Eliot was dropped and Doug quit out of protest. Doug said he had a deep emotional commitment to the story and thought it was a cheat not to let the audience see it play all the way out. But trouble loomed ahead. In October 1984, the Bauer family was dealt a series of blows. Hillary was killed off. Mike was written out of the show. Ed was recast because Peter wanted to do other work. Hope had been written out already. Many other wonderful Marland characters were written off. But decimating the core family of the Bauers was the real unfortunate series of blows! Alan Michael, Amanda and Victoria were not in the cast. "Bauer Power" was missing from the show! Roger allowed Rita to call the hospital for her test results: they were that Ed was the father of the baby. That infuriated Roger, who tied Rita to an iron bed. Roger heard police radio chatter that they were on the way to the cabin. In his haste to flee, he knocked over a lantern, setting the cabin on fire! Mike and Ed together rescued Rita. Waiting in the Dominican Republic was Roger, hoping to capture Christina. While Holly distracted Roger, Christina escaped. Roger dragged Holly miles through the jungle. While Ed tried to save Roger, he let out a blood-curdling scream & fell off the cliff of the Dominican Republic presumably a fall to his death. With all of Springfield reacting to Roger's death, Jackie suffered a concussion. While she was out, she mumbled phrases which made ex-husband Justin realize that he was Phillip's father. Jackie and Justin Marler concluded that they fit together and remarried, deciding though that Phillip should live with Jackie and Justin. Barbara moved to Switzerland to live with Holly and Christina. Eventually, Ed married Maureen Reardon. Carrie Todd helped Ross through rough times----introducing him to jogging, health foods and spiritual well-being---and Ross fell madly in love with this creature. Then, Springfield was rocked by two murders---Diane Ballard and Joe Bradley. Dianne and Carrie had been mortal enemies. Looking for the killer, Ross found it to be his girlfriend Carrie Todd! On the witness stand she told of her marriage to Todd McKenzie who had committed suicide. Carrie Todd and Ross Marler married. But, after they did she suffered a psychological problem: develping a multiple personality disorder. Her second personality, Carrie #2 emerged a slut and wreaked havoc all over town. She also had an affair with Josh Lewis. Dr. Sara McIntyyre correctly diagnosed her. Carrie and Ross divorced. (The divorce was Carrie's idea so that Ross would not be held back by her & her problems.) Then, the introduction of Beverlee McKinsey (thanks to Gail Kobe) was 'hands down' the most sophisticated presence ever to grace the daytime screen, as Alexandra Spaulding. Creative and commercial acclaim came GL's way. Pam was headwriter for three years and then left to have a child. "Bradley Raines was Pam's favorite character creation," Jay said, recalling Pam's three years with the show. "He exemplified evil and he forced good people to react in various ways. He was a great catalyst for drama. There was a dark side to him. "But, the character Pam created that (the actress Pam) would most like to play is Reva! Pam loves her warmth, her impulsiveness, that she was free-spirited, that she came from humble roots and her humanity. They're drawn to her humanity. It makes her special." (I love hearing the discussion of both Bradley---who I wanted to knock his block off often---and Reva who was very much a human!) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oregon v. Rideout was a trial held in Marion County Circuit Court in 1978 in Salem, Oregon. John Rideout was on trial for an accusation of raping his wife, Greta Rideout. John Rideout was acquitted in the jury trial, but was the first man in the United States to be charged with raping his wife while he was still living with her. Contents 1 Background 2 Trial 3 Aftermath 4 References Background The charges and case were possible because of a 1977 state law that permitted a wife to charge her husband with rape in Oregon. The alleged assault according to Greta Rideout occurred October 10, 1978, at their apartment in North Salem. Having been arguing recently and facing threats of violence from John, she had refused to have sex with him and at

He edited an anthology: Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture in the 1970s edited by Sherrie A. Inness Dr. Thomas D. Petitjean He often put out CFPs aka Calls For Papers for Conferences.

Dawn Rollo and Scott LaSalle's Romance on Another World, 1988 Another World gave daytime its first storyline where a soap character, Dawn Rollo, died of AIDS. Dawn's fiance, Scott LaSalle (Hank Cheyne), was the adopted son of the wealthy Reginald Love (John Considine) and amnesiac Mary McKinnon (Denise Alexander). After Dawn passed, Scott eventually reunited with his former girlfriend Cheryl McKinnon (his sister by adoption) and left town, but Dawn's valiant struggle and Scott's fierce love for her was never forgotten. (Chad Rollo was Dawn's brother & he was initially very defensive about the fact that Dawn contracted through a blood transfusion with her mother as the donor. Her mother was a prostitute.Scott & Dawn went to Italy for the duration of her illness & she died there & Scott came back alone. The show was praised for its initial handling of the storyline but then they ended up being criticised for having her die off-screen,) Scott made a rousing speech about HIV/AIDS Awareness & left town to go to DC to work on the problem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex0pG0o7ocY

It is there, I assure you. The Title is The Creation of Another World & I posted the link.

Dr. Thomas D. Petitjean Jr. Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. Monday, May 8, 2006, at a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Joseph Catholic Church for Dr. Thomas D. Petitjean Jr., 49, who died Friday, May 5, 2006, at his residence in Natchitoches, La. interment was in St. Joseph Cemetery No. 2 Mausoleum. Survivors include his parents, Thomas D. and Evelyn S. Petitjean, of Rayne; one sister, Andree' Wingate and husband, Marvin, of Rayne; two brothers, Mayor Jim Petitjean and wife, Lyn , of Rayne, and Joe Petitjean, of Rayne; five nieces, Alexis Wingate, Alanna Wingate, Elise Petitjean, Mariette Petitjean, Ann Petitjean, all of Rayne; and one nephew, Nicholas "Pete" Petitjean, of Rayne. He was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Sonnier Sr. and his paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Dave Petitjean Sr. An LSU graduate, Dr. Petitjean obtained his Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. Petitjean was an Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, La. and had served in that capacity for the past seven years. He also was a member of Phi Delta Kappa Education Honor Fraternity, Phi Kappa Phi Scholastic Honor Fraternity, and the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing. Dr. Petitjean was a published author, having written three books and numerous technical writing publications. During the ten years that Dr. Petitjean lived in New York, he held various positions including promotion director for New York Magazine, as well as being a script writer for "Another World" and "As The World Turns". Dr. Petitjean taught at Rayne High School for five years and was selected Teacher of the Year in 1995. As a teenager, he attained the rank of Eagle Scout. “Doc” as his students referred to him, touched everyone that he came in contact with and forever changed the lives of those whom he taught. He also cherished time spent with his nieces and nephew. He will be deeply missed by family and friends. A rosary was recited at 7 p.m. Sunday. The family requested visiting hours be observed from 2 p.m. until 10 p.m. Sunday and continue from 8 a.m. Monday until service time. Arrangements were entrusted to Gossen Funeral Home, Inc. of Rayne. Read more: http://www.genlookups.com/la/webbbs_config.pl/noframes/read/577#ixzz601Ovqu3g He used a pseudonym for the three novels he successfully published. With fans online, in RATSm, he used another pseudonym. He was a best firend to Anna Stuart (aka Donna Love). He & I were very close.

I think I recall reading a PB interview long after the fact where it was clear that she had been unhappy about her departure.

http://anotherworldhomepage.com/creation.htm A new-ish item that corrects numerous items from past lore and history.

Thank you.

The Guiding Light by Dr. John Ruthledge 1938. The Rev. Dr. John Ruthledge was a liberal, nonsectarian clergyman in the small Chicago suburb of Five Points. Week after week, parishioners from all faiths came to the Little Church of Five Points to hear Dr. Ruthledge speak out against the insidiousness of racial prejudice, the horror of war and the injustice of poverty. But Dr. Ruthledge's influence on the townspeople extended far beyond his weekly sermons. In the window of his study, his reading lamp -- known fondly as the Friendship Lamp, given to him by an Italian immigrant named Luigi Pasquali who worked in the paint factory at Five Points. Ruthledge's lamp always burned brightly, a signal to those in need who would seek his counsel. This lamp was as constant and comforting a presence as Dr. Ruthledge himself and was known to all in Five Points as "The Guiding Light."