Love of Life Discussion Thread

[DRW50]

Thanks for letting us know. I wish more of LOL was available. Her SOD cover was stunning.

[Paul Raven]

@DRW50 I don't recall a Love of Life SOD cover with her.

Interesting that she never went back to acting. I recall she was offered Y&R after LOL was cancelled but declined. Seems perhaps acting really wasn't for her.

She briefly changed her mane to Gittana I recall.

Edited October 7, 2024 by Paul Raven

[DRW50]

I was thinking of this, although I think I mixed it up with other magazine photos, sorry:

 

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Edited October 7, 2024 by DRW50

[Paul Raven]

 

[Paul Raven]

Courier Express, 29 April 1979 by Jon-Michael Reed

NEW YORK - CBS's "Love of Life" has undergone many creative changes since last fall when new producer Cathy Abbi spruced up the visual look of the show with dynamic stunning sets and costumes. But a beautiful environment does got a good soap opera make. The story, under headwriter Jean Holloway, has gone to the dogs.

The prime focus centers on a ridiculous story about locating Bambi Brewster's parents. At first, since the girl was in critical condition, the search seemed logical. Now that she has recovered and not expressed the least bit of interest in her boss Ray Slater's locating her family, motivation and reason has flown out the "'Love of Life"" story window. AND, HAS ANYONE out there in videoland been able to make sense out of the horde of various characters bearing the Brewster name that Ray contacted in Des Moines, where half the.town of Rosehill has journeyed to join Ray in the dismal hunt? The story's core characters have been left in limbo, meanwhile, with absolutely nothing progressing on other story fronts. 

"'Love of Life's" doldrums may be reversed, however,. soon when yet anothér new headwriter Ann Marcus takes over the writing helm. Marcus was in charge of the Days of Our Lives story til last fall. Prior to that she had co-created "Mary Hartmann, Mary Hartmann and even earlier had scripted 'Search for Tomorrow." Her, expertise hopefully will bring "'Love of Life"out of the pits.

[DRW50]

Thank you @Paul Raven 

I am always hoping one of the Holloway era's episodes pops up.

Thank you for all the articles you've been sharing recently.

[te.]

A May 10th, 1953 episode "premieres" on the Moviecraft Inc channel in about 12 hours:

 

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[DRW50]

Thanks for letting us know. That channel hasn't had any soap content up in a while. 

I suppose it is something of a blessing that enough episodes have been uploaded from 1952/1953 that I wasn't sure if this was new to us or not. I never do know why some periods have a lot of survival data and others don't.

[te.]

I assume that some periods just simply had stations that either kept kinoscopes for a long time or had a packrat working there who did. 

[DRW50]

That makes sense. I know DAYS and GL also have periods where a lot of episodes are available.

[vetsoapfan]

Um...no.

You REEEEEALLY don't want to put yourself through that.

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[DRW50]

Oh I know it must be bad (I know the idea is it was written like a radio soap but many radio soaps were good)...just morbidly curious.

[Mona Kane Croft]

Well to put that style of writing into perspective -- some TV sitcoms were still being written like radio comedies well into the mid-1960s (Ozzie and Harriett, Hazel, and Petticoat Junction, for example). And to be honest, most of those sitcoms were still rather funny.  So radio-style writing was/is not necessarily bad writing.  Give me Love of Life from 1953 anytime!  It can't be as bad as any of the four remaining US television soaps in 2024.  

[DRW50]

Sorry for the mixup - we were talking about the show under Jean Holloway in 78/79.

I agree those shows were still funny.

Edited November 27, 2024 by DRW50

[Mona Kane Croft]

No problem, and I'm sorry I misunderstood.  Somehow I thought the criticism had been against the recently posted episode from 1953.  And actually, I thought that episode was pretty damned good.