This past weekend, I caught Priscilla Pointer in "A Nightmare on Elm Street-- Part 3." It hadn't dawned on me who Priscilla Pointer was. It would have been interesting to see her in the role of Adrienne. I hadn't realized Pointer was married to Robert Symonds, who played Will Watts on "Where the Heart Is." I find it a little amusing that Pointer played a psychiatrist while Symonds played a psychiatric patient.

I always associate Pointer with her role on Knots Landing as the woman who stalked Ginger because Ginger had aborted her son's child.

What a beautifully written synopsis, CarlD2. It made for a delightful read while I am recuperating from my latest surgery. Where would we all be without your insight?

Edited May 2, 201213 yr by edgeofnight

I'm glad you are feeling better. You may be referring to another thread but I appreciate your kind words, as always.

I associate Priscilla Pointer with Dallas where she played Rebecca Wentworth,Pam & Katherine's mother.She is also the mother of actress Amy Irving,ho was married to Steven Spielberg.

February 1972 Daytime TV

Caroline Coates is back as Mrs. Harrison

Variety July 19th 1972

While the character she played on "Where the Heart Is" goes to Rochester to visit a sick aunt, Bibl Osterwald will be in Hollywood to play the male lead's mother in "Bridget Loves Bernie," a CBS-TV primetime newcomer in the fall

She is also the mother of actress Amy Irving,ho was married to Steven Spielberg.

Who you callin' a ho?!

I was going to add that Pricilla Pointer was the mother of Amy Irving, but someone did it before I did. I will add, though, that Amy was the first wife of producer Steven Speilberg, whose second wife is Kate Capshaw (Jinx Mallory #1 on The Edge of Night).

Priscilla was a very good actress. If you haven't seen it, watch the Knots Landing episode where she played the unbalanced mother of Ginger's first love.

Laurinda Barrett (Rita Church) and Camille Yarborough (Miss Butterfield) began the end of September.

It was asked how old Margaret DePriest is.

I am not certain of her age, but she was an actress on The Edge of Night in 1964 - nearly forty years ago. She did not seem to be a spring chicken then.

I always enjoyed seeing Tracy Brooks Swope on 'Where the Heart Is.'

What did you enjoy about her?

I remember Tracy Brooks Swope as a love interest for Jaimie Frame on AW in the early 80s. I had first seen her in episodes of Starsky & Hutch and Baretta, and I was somewhat jazzed that a "prime-time actress" was doing a soap. Unfortunately, her character was a crashing bore and didn't last long. Honestly, she didn't impress me much -- but the show was in such a funk at that point that it may not have been her fault.