On 3/3/2026 at 12:48 PM, Maggie said:

Can someone tell me the birth order of Maeve & John's Children; Frank, Paddy, Kathleen, Mary & Siobhan?

Almost just like that. From oldest to youngest: Frank, Kathleen, Pat, Mary, and Siobhan.

1984 ABC promo Ryan's Hope #2

@safe Not sure if this was posted before, but it's not on the IMDB credits for Lisa Sutton (Nancy Feldman #1).

@slick jones Not sure if this is in your files. Sorry if it is.

@safe A Visine ad with Geoff Pierson.

On 3/2/2026 at 10:14 PM, DRW50 said:

@safe Dennis Jay Higgins (Sam Crowley) only other IMDB credit. Directed by Lela Swift.

The Haunting of Rosalind 1973

Thank you so much, Carl! I appreciate these little gems you find.

People wondered what happened to him after RH. Some people thought Kate Mulgrew might have known since the soap magazines played up a close friendship between the two -- but I think TotallyKate webmaster would have told us at the SN forum if Kate had known anything.

On 4/2/2026 at 9:08 PM, DRW50 said:

@safe Not sure if this was posted before, but it's not on the IMDB credits for Lisa Sutton (Nancy Feldman #1).

@slick jones Not sure if this is in your files. Sorry if it is.

I had seen this before but it's a reminder that Lisa Sutton (Nancy #1) had a good deal of prime time exposure mid 1980's to early 1990's-- particularly her recurring role on Hill Street Blues.

Thanks for the Geoff Pierson commercial, too.

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On 12/29/2015 at 9:49 PM, safe said:

I had never heard this before – not even as a rumor --from Tracy Brooks Swope's IMDB biography page –under Trivia

 

I'm not sure what the difference was between 1973's “Me “ listed as a movie and the paragraph saying “Me” was a PBS show that kept her from taking the role in 1975.

 

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0842884/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

 

 

 

A long time for an update since I posted that originally over 10 years ago. Someone sent me this from author Tom Lisanti's Instagram and he posted the following several months ago---

PAGING DR. FAITH COLERIDGE MIGHT HAVE BEEN

I interviewed actress Tracy Brooks Swope who played Chris Wylie on Another World in 1982 for my upcoming book, Another World: The Drama Behind Daytime’s Only 90-Minute Soap. She talked about her time as Liz Hathaway on Where the Heart Is prior and how that almost led to a role on Ryan’s Hope.

For the last year or so, the head writers were Claire Labine and Paul Mayer who really liked me. When they created and began casting Ryan’s Hope, they invited me to sit down with them and casting director Shirley Rich. They offered me my choice of two roles. I had to decide between Faith Coleridge and Mary Ryan. I would have loved to have played Delia, but they thought I was too classy for it. I chose Faith because she was a doctor. I know they also cast from Where the Heart Is Diana van der Vlis [as Dr. Nell Beulac] and then the great Louise Shaffer, who I loved, came onto the show [as Rae Woodward]. [Bernie Barrow who played Johnny Ryan was also on Where the Heart Is.] But I began to get offers to do prime time shows in California, so I didn’t do it. That was a mistake and I should have done the soap.”

The roles of Faith and Mary were constantly being recast and when asked if the creators ever reached out to her again, Tracy replied, “No, they did not. I think they were unhappy with me for walking away from the show.”

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Thanks @safe you may want to add this to the They Almost Became thread.

My guess is she wouldn't have lasted that long as Faith either. It was just not a good part.

I was surprised that Mary being part of the family the show was named after wouldn't have made Mary her choice when Tracy was picking between the two roles. Since Tracy was interested, but too classy for early Delia, perhaps she would have been interested in being a Delia recast (Crystal Palace Delia).

Nancy Addison had originally auditioned for Faith (said about Faith being a doctor-- that not many women were getting into med school [at that time] and she liked that). Danfling was the one who said they had considered Jada Rowland and he said she was (another) inspiration for Faith. On the SN board we were told Nancy Barrett was also envisioned in the role (and then was briefly Faith). Kathryn Breech turned down the role after Faith Catlin was let go (Kathryn didn't want to be a recast and chose the One Life to Live role instead)

5 hours ago, safe said:

I was surprised that Mary being part of the family the show was named after wouldn't have made Mary her choice when Tracy was picking between the two roles.

I can't even begin to imagine her in either role. She seems all wrong for both roles, unless they would have changed the characters to suit her better.

5 hours ago, safe said:

Nancy Addison had originally auditioned for Faith (said about Faith being a doctor-- that not many women were getting into med school [at that time] and she liked that). Danfling was the one who said they had considered Jada Rowland and he said she was (another) inspiration for Faith. On the SN board we were told Nancy Barrett was also envisioned in the role (and then was briefly Faith). Kathryn Breech turned down the role after Faith Catlin was let go (Kathryn didn't want to be a recast and chose the One Life to Live role instead)

Jada Rowland was too old to play Faith. Nancy Barrett did not fit the role, either.

I could see Kathryn Breech as Faith, though. Ironically, she was replaced by the incredible Judith Light on OLTL, so maybe she should have gotten over her aversion to being a recast. 😂

Wrong thread

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18 hours ago, DeeVee said:

Jada Rowland was too old to play Faith. Nancy Barrett did not fit the role, either.

Nancy Addison seemed too old, also, for Faith - and she really didn't want to play an ingenue again.

I couldn't remember if this had been posted already --- if so, here it is again...

TV GUIDE AUGUST 9. 1980


In 'Ryan's Hope’-and in real life — Nancy Addison tends to come on strong

By John Mariani

When Nancy Addison took the role of lawyer Jill Coleridge Beaulac on ABCs daytime serial Ryan's Hope, she anticipated the usual number of maladies for her character, and she has not been disappointed. Jill has bravely weathered the death of a young son, a messy divorce, the horror of drug addiction, and other heartbreaks that would turn most normal women into emotional porridge.

That Nancy and her character have survived five years on such a sea of troubles is proof of both women‘s strong-headedness. Which, in its own ironic way, has led to a quirky problem Nancy Addison had not anticipated. "I get very little mail from men," says the beautiful brown-haired, green-eyed ac-tress, "while the seductive sirens, the
conniving, man-chasing female characters on the show get letters from male viewers. I think men see Jill as too strong for them, too determined. Usually my character is pretty much in control of her men, even when she’s in trouble, and men are afraid of Jill.”

When a woman is as attractive as Nancy Addison, a man may very well be apprehensive about approaching her. “Even in high school, boys didn’t ask me out much because I was so shy, and they took that to mean I was snobby," she says, shaking her head.

Much of her own strength of character came from her mother, who worked as a designer of furs with her businessman father. Born in New York City and raised in New Jersey, Nancy grew up without ever watching soap operas on television. *’Now that I work so hard during the day," she says, 'I still don’t get to see them. The only time I see myself is if I get hold of a tape machine."

After pursuing a liberal arts education at Fisher Junior College in Boston and New York University, Nancy performed on the stage in dinner-theater, stock and off-Broadway productions, and studied with both Stella Adler and Sandy Meisner before taking on the role of Kit Vestid in the soap opera The Guiding Light for two years. After
that, she joined Ryan's Hope, where she was nominated for an Emmy in 1976.

But then, instead of identifying with soap-opera heroines, Nancy felt a stronger attraction to Vivien Leigh as Scarlett 0’Hara in "Gone with the Wind," a film she has seen 15 times at last count. "I love Scarlett," says Nancy, "because she’s tough too, a con artist, and knows what she wants. But I really admire Vivien Leigh the
actress, who was a little crazy and went through a lot. The great thing about that movie is that Scarlett and Rhett Butler are mirror images of each other. They’re both headstrong and complex. with all kinds of shadings.

"It’s very sexy when he carries her up those stairs and she’s kicking. On Ryan's Hope, my character has been pretty much in control of her men, even when she’s in trouble. In my own life I'll push a man to see how he’ll react, because I want a man who is stronger than I am — or as strong."


Nancy, who admits to being in her late 20s, was once married to an actor("A Southern actor at that," she laughs), but after a divorce, she became involved in the early-70s women's movement. "I was heavily into feminism then," she says, "and I guess I was a little radical in my feelings toward men — which must have put them off. But I've mellowed and now I try to see both sides of the issue. I don't just want women to change and grow; I want women and men to grow together and to nurture each other, which is not easy. You have to break down the barriers first."

One of the barriers Nancy herself broke down effectively was on one of those nights when she found herself alone at a disco in New York. "I told myself, if I feel I want to go out alone, that's my business," she explains, "and when I got there, everybody was with somebody else. Except one guy sit-ting alone. He looked strong, serious,
proud and intriguing. So I just went up to him and asked him to dance. We've
been together now for three years."

When Nancy auditioned for Ryan's Hope after a stint on The Guiding Light, she was originally up for the role of Jill's sister, the doctor. "But I gave such a strong, determined reading, "she says. "that they offered me the role of the lawyer, which was originally meant for an older woman. My character has changed over the years, of
course, and in the future I want her to be much more vulnerable and not so hard-nosed.”

The mellowing of Nancy’s personality has guided her perception of her character. “This is the best part of my life right now!" she exclaims. 'I've got a wonderful acting job. I just bought a country house in Pennsylvania that Tm fixing up, I have a terrific relationship with a man, although right now I don’t think I want to get married or have
children. and 1’ve even started up my own business."

Last year, friends she’d met in her feminist workshop produced some ornamental hair decorations that included several unique, bejeweled hair pins .With an investment of $20 in materials, Nancy and the three other women began producing them for sale around New York. "We tried to get them into Bloomingdale‘s for months," says Nancy, “and we were persistent. When they finally agreed to see us, they flipped and we had enough orders for three months. We didn’t even know how to write an invoice, and I was up till 6 some mornings, sewing sequins on to these ornaments. Now we’ve got booths in Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue and Henri Bendel’s, and I’m not staying up till 6 any more. But, I still promote the product — called Kirk’s Folly —
by appearing in the store and greeting customers.”

Sometimes men will wander over to the booth to find out exactly what it is that the beautiful brunette who is vaguely familiar-looking is wearing and selling. “One day this man carne over, and I was bending over. When I stood up with the ornament in my hair, he burst out laughing. Well, I went overo him and said right in his face. ‘Listen, don‘t you dare insult me or my work. You are a man of utter insensitivity, and I just can’t stand that.’ The man backed away like I was this crazy lady, but I just smiled because I stood my ground. It made me feel terrific for the rest of the day."

Nancy Addison would have been older than late 20's in 1980 ---more like 34.

Her disclosing her lack of male fan mail, and her reason that men were scared of Jill, was eye-opening. I didn't think the show had any seductive sirens (connivers and men chasers -yes!) -- at least not by 1980.

Jill was usually raising her voice about not wanting to be controlled by a man, so it was interesting hearing Nancy say Jill controlled the men in her life.

The lawyer role was supposed to be older. Jill was born in 1944 --- how much older was Jill originally going to be...

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