Love of Life Discussion Thread

[slick jones]

I am fairly computer, so I don't know how to post a video, but if anyone can, there is a preview with the Reverend Richard Brewster on you tube. [i just punched in Reverend Richard Brewster Love of Life]. I think the actor is Robert Webber, a frequent guest star on crime dramas in the 70s. Am I right? Is RW playing Bambi's father?

[Soaplovers]

To me, it seemed like the last six months of the show was tying up all the old fashion stories while ushering in the newer stuff. I wonder if the show had been given another year, if the changes would have fully worked.

I was encouraged in the last scene when Arlene refuses to forgive Ray that she would become a stronger character.

[amybrickwallace]

In the show's final year, who did you think were the show's strongest performers? What did you think were the strongest stories? They didn't have a lot of time to wrap things up, did they? Wasn't the cancellation notice from CBS handed down to them just weeks before they filmed the last episode?

[danfling]

I wonder if the network had hired Harding Lemay if he could have made the show good enough with good enough ratings to have saved the show - at least for a while.

[jam6242]

Is this the promo? I don't believe this is Robert Webber. I've seen the actor in other things but can't think of his name.

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[slick jones]

That's the promo. If anyone can identify the actor It'd be appreciated.

[teplin]

There was a brief Love of Life clip on this week's Masters of Sex episode.

[DRW50]

Was it one that's on Youtube?

[slick jones]

Who was the woman that Elliot Lang cheated with on Betsy ? Was her name Jill? Does anyone know anything about her character? Who played her?

Who was Arden Delacourt[ actress Geraldine Brooks]?

What was the story for Howie Howells[ Ed Crowley]? Did the character have any family? Was he a good or bad guy?

Does anyone know who played Papa Gaspero? Prison guard Solly when the fire broke out when Ben was in prison?

Thanks for any answers!

Edited July 25, 2020 by slick jones

[teplin]

I didn't recognize it from YouTube, nor did I recognize the two characters involved -- but it was a B&W clip from the '50s. The premise had Mrs. Masters and her new African-American nanny/maid watching the show, which is a favorite of the nanny's.

[amybrickwallace]

Chandler Harben (Ben) has such a great YT channel, with so many LOL moments that would probably lost forever had he not saved his own personal recordings. Too bad no one picked up the show, like ABC had with EON, because no one will ever know whatever happened to Betsy.

[slick jones]

A few months ago I asked about a character named Vicky Harcourt in the 50's. In reading an old SOD the character was an actress that threatened to say her producer molested her if she didn't get a job. I just thought I'd share if anyone was interested.

[DRW50]

This has been around and around but this one is in better quality than the last on Youtube.

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[amybrickwallace]

Ah, the days before cell phones, where people had to rush to find a pay phone.

[slick jones]

I looked through a lot of the old Jon Michael Reed articles available on the google archive newspaper site, and was looking for the casting in LoL's final years, the Bambi Brewster debacle of a story. Has anyone found any casting notices for Eloise Alberini, Rev. Brewster's crazy follower? I've asked this befor, but here are some others:"Big" Al Barton, Reverend Richard Brewster, Reverend Harding, Leonia Baxter, Cissy[Casey]Muldoon, reporter, Arthur, Barbara, and Kathleen Brewster, Tran Chang[child of Kim Soo Li and Tony Alphonso], Papa Gaspero, Mildred Russell, Frankie Sills, Solly Sullivan[prison guard, saved by Ben], and Paul Smith[smithers?] reporter?

In reading some old magazines, a couple of names I haven't seen in cast lists are: Sally Cartwright [Patricia Wheel], Cathy Smith[Mallory Jones] Pam Wagner[ Lisa Bentzen], and Merlin [Hector Mercado]. There was also a newspaper editor played Frank Thomas, Sr.