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Wow, an actress getting pregnant and giving up her baby for adoption all within the public eye, I mean, could you IMAGINE that happening today??

I liked the Helen interview too, that's a trip about people just ringing up her listed number and her answering like that.

Wait, Michael Fairman, that's not...

Kate was only 19!?

Dood, that's an interesting name. She's glad she wasn't born a Gen X or Y'er, though I'm sure she didn't exactly go unscathed.

Marc Menard as Joey? No no no no no, that's worse than Bruce Michael Hall.

Krista as Blair, wow, that they'd even consider that given her closer physical resemblance to a Tina.

Trevor St. John has always reminded me of another Kevin, Jack Armstrong, so I could see that.

Does anyone remember that show called Young Americans? They had a girl on there who was passing as a boy, I don' remember the actress' name but I think she was also on The L Word. She was involved with Ian Sommerhalder on YA. Don't think she was transgendered though, just trying to attend an all-boys school iirc.

I can see the Terry Lester/Mark Pinter thing.

Can anyone make out the name of the woman who temporarily took over for Helen Wagner as Nancy around ATWT's 1988 Christmas episodes? I can't quite hear it. I guess they didn't want to have Nancy absent for the holiday but it's so strange to see someone else as Nancy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOPk-gMUpWM

Betty Runnel. I could make out Betty, then I cross referenced. I couldn't find anything else about her online, not even an IMDb/IBDB/ITDB entry, maybe she worked under another name, was solidly off-off-Broadway, or even some crew member's aunt.

Yeah, I don't want to unfairly judge but I can imagine Constance Ford rolling her eyes at this chick. This was Robin's first foray into being recast with a lookalike by Rauch. Would still like to see her Rachel in action though I know that'll ptobably never happen.

Oh, and do you recognize C.C., Peter Mark Richman, from DYNASTY? He was Blake's lawyer, he got the part at the last minute as Lloyd Bochner had a heart attack and couldn't procede.

I don't know much about Santana or SB for that matter but just watching that again made me think of how utterly soapy it all was, first of all a name like SANTANA, all that '80s California glam, Dame Judith Anderson in the vintage Rolls complete with riding crop and funky cello, what it must have been like to watch this first episode "live" that day...

ITA re: Margie, I had to bend my brain a little to see the Strasser resemblance which apparently won her the part. LOL at the GoGos reference, I know just what (who) you mean. Jane something... "'I. Am. Your singing telegram!' *POW!*"

Yes, that must have been the Melinda ep I saw, it was in b&w kinescope.

I know what you mean about Melinda. Years before I actually saw it I'd read others' comments that she was too old for Jill at the time she played her. On WoST there was an ep from whatever soap she'd done back in the day, I'm forgetting which one at the moment, but she seemed to be very much in the Rachel Davis mold of character. Interesting seeing as how she and Victoria Wyndham both played Charlotte Bauer on GL. That's another character I'd like to see in action. I'd also like to see Margie Impert's Rachel. Margie was in the first episode of Santa Barbara:

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"It was a bit more like Liz Taylor meets Mrs. Roper."

HILARIOUS. And I can totally picture that.

Yes, Fabiani subbed for Zaslow, I mentioned that in my first post in this thread, and indeed, he was a rather sleepy Roger as he was a rather sleepy Jared Chase, King Galen, Barry Shire... One of these days I will get to uploading stuff I have on YouTube, I have scenes of him with Sherry Stringfield and Beverlee McKinsey.

I feel like wry, smug Trevor St. John is more MZ Roger Thorpe than any of his age-appropriate recasts were.

Carl, I think you said that you've seen the stuff with Carole Shelley, I have yet to see that. What's your take? I think I remember you saying that she was a bit *theatrical*. She would not be my choice for Iris but she was nevertheless a casting coup coming off of her The Elephant Man glory. Would have loved to see Sandy Dennis as Iris, she and Beverlee both did Honey in WAOVW.

That must be on the second link, I only have the first link with all the Iris stuff, some of which has been uploaded to YouTube. I didn't even know that Cecile was on the show when Iris was still around.

Okay, wow, I need to get with it because I have all of that on dvd from Eddie!

Wait, so Susan Keith (she is only Shana and JK's wife in my mind) was the original Cecile? Or was she between two stints of the other actress?

Yeah, I have a hard time imagining KMK as Dru, she is a Layla.

I was thinking Julie, but now that you mention it...

Samantha Vernon, that's a OLTL character, right?

Now that's balls.

Was that the 1998 recast? I remember SPW claimed Erin Torpey had been permanently replaced by this girl, and then it was an oops and that never happened. I know there was some rumor that Slezak put her foot down about firing Erin Torpey.

Yes, in '98, and there was some weird hubbub, it looked like a temp for all intents and purposes but then stuff started to seep out that this was actually a permanent recast as Torpey's contract negotiations weren't going smoothly (the implication that she was holding out and the show went forward without her). Who knows what was real or fan fabrication, but it was one of those *moments* in the "the Internet is still relatively new" age of soap fandom.

Hm. I wonder what it would have been like had Ehlers been given the role of Liza as originally intended. She certainly wouldn't have sold the sex like Luner, but BE would have pulled off the brittle bitchy quality MW had quite well.

I mentioned Magdalena Andersson who temped for Torpey a few posts back. Some whack job wrote into SOD like, "You posted that Magdalena 'Maggie' Andersson was a temprary recast for Erin Torpey but you got it wrong as I have been watching Maggie in the role for years now, Erin was the replacement." Okay, why does SOD evenPRINT letters like that!?!? Their response was like, "We don't know what show you're watching, but Erin Torpey has..."

"Nose-rubby." Amy Carlson, she was on AW right? My first thought was the girl who played nutty buddy Molly Malone on The City. But Amy played the cop who was with Tim Gibbs, later Kevin on OLTL. Geesh, SO many Kevins...

Do you guys remember Elizabeth Ashley as Emma Frame on AW? She did a great job with the short stint. It's funny, because I think she would have made for a great temp replacement for Beverlee McKinsey's Iris (a la another Broadway great, Carole Shelley) and of course McKinsey was the original Emma. I'd love to see Elizabeth Ashley on OLTL mixing it up with Slezak and Strasser, I read that she recently guested on Treme and I can hardly wait to see that.

I get such a kick out of this clip (♫White. Liiines...♫)"

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I seem to remember that there was some sort of connection between Louise Shaffer and Judith McGilligan, I want to say that they both went to the Yale School of Drama but I'm not sure. I remember connecting some dots when Judith's eps aired on SN four or five years ago, though I don't recall now.

Yeah, I never knew about Bassey as Lisa, come to think of it she kind of looks like Jane Powell (maybe it's just the haircut). But Lisa's had a lot of replacements over the years, huh? She was even recast, and I'm forgetting the lady's name but I know it has something to do with designer jeans. But more replacements than I'd expect from a character like her, would kind of be like Susan Lucci having multiple temps (amazingly she's never had even one though someone in Another Thread said that Jean Burke was thinking of subbing her with Lisa Peluso when she fell ill in '00). Years ago when AW was still on the air, long before Mary Smythe, I thought that Anna Stuart looked like she could temp as Erica. I also thought Sally Field (solely based on Soapdish), a wigged Goldie Hawn, and even Raquel Welch might fit the bill.