Another World Discussion Thread

[Mona Kane Croft]

Thanks for the information.  That's great.  I'm not on X at all, and I seldom look at FB these days.  I guess I was thinking he would address it on one of his youtube videos.  

 

Edited February 14 by Mona Kane Croft

[Mona Kane Croft]

Somerset actress, Alice Hirson had died at age 95.  AW fans are aware Somerset was a spin-off of Another World.  Hirson's character had a particularly historic connection to important AW characters, Rachel and Ada.  On Somerset, Hirson played Gerald Davis's second wife, Marcia.  And AW fans will remember Gerald Davis as the father of Rachel. So Marcia was Rachel's step-mother.  Gerald Davis's first wife was Ada, played by Constance Ford on AW.  

Some outlets are reporting that Hirson also appeared on Another World, which is possible. If she did appear on AW, it was likely in the weeks leading up to the premiere of Somerset, in which several Somerset characters appeared briefly on episodes of AW. Also during this period, Rachel (at the time played by Robin Strasser) travelled to Somerset to connect with her father, Gerald.  So it is possible that Rachel and Marcia shared scenes together, but I can find no evidence to verify that. 

Edited February 16 by Mona Kane Croft

[watson71]

Hirson also had a recurring part on Dallas as Miss Ellie’s best friend Mavis Anderson in the early seasons of the show.

[Efulton]

The Another World Homepage does not list Alice Hirson as being one of the cross over actors who appeared on Another World before or after the launch of Somerset.

[Xanthe]

I glanced at the 1970 AW synopses and when Rachel meets Gerald Davis he tells her he is divorced from Marsha, Pammy's mother. I also don't see Alice Hirson listed in the AW Actor Guide. I'm not sure how large a role Marsha played in Somerset -- she is listed under minor characters but she was apparently around for a couple of years, even after Pammy left.

[Efulton]

I just finished reading the Somerset thread on here and it looks like Marsha has story of her own.

[Xanthe]

Thanks! I had tried to see what information was available on the archived sites linked from the AWHP (the Somerset Register and Somerset Online) but had not found anything.

[mikeaw1978]

A lot of information on the AWHP came from the Somerset fan who created the site, The Somerset Registry. It's possible that he used AWHP's basic criteria to distinguish between major and minor characters. Therefore, the designations for characters comes from The Somerset Registry itself. Aside from that, I don't know enough about Somerset's storylines to verify Marsha's importance and storylines. So, I can't judge whether she was truly minor. That distinction is often grey with AW. 

[vetsoapfan]

Just to add: Alice Hirson's most memorable role (to me) was as the psychotic Stephanie Martin on The Edge of Night. She stalked and terrorized Nicole Travis, and ended up getting stabbed in the back and murdered.

That was a memorable storyline, I must say. Whomever else she played in later years, Hirson was always Stephanie Martin  to me, LOL.

May she RIP.

[Mona Kane Croft]

Didn't Irene Daily (the final Liz Matthews) also have an important role in the Stephanie Martin murder mystery on EON?  

[VelekaCarruthers]

Absolutely. One of Henry's top three best EON plots:  Pamela (Irene Dailey ) was married to Nicole's 1st husband Duane who was still in love w/Nicole and pursued her. So Pamela hated Nicole. At the same time, Stephanie and her catatonic daughter came to town. S hated N because Ben Travis (as head of the syndicate ) was responsible for the deaths of Stephanie's husband and another child! Nicole and Stephanie both worked at McGrath's Dress shop. N started getting phone calls from a man who recited lines from Shakespeare's plays relating to death. We would see a man in a hat and trench coat call N from a phone booth to spook her with these Death quotes. (one was from Othello; right before he kills his wife: he says "Put out the light, then put out the light!" Well it wasn't a man making those calls! It was Stephanie with a stocking over her face playing a tape of a man reading the Shakespeare quotes! And at one point, she actually shot Nicole in the arm before we knew it was Stephanie doing this stuff. Nicole found out and went to confront S at the dress shop. When she entered, Stephanie had been stabbed in the back! Crazy Debbie was already there and screamed: pull it out! So N got her fingerprints on the knife, and S was already dead! During the trial, Adam put Deb on the stand even though she couldn't remember what she saw that night. All of a sudden, she got her memory back, stood up on the stand, pointed to Pamela and said: she's the one who killed my mother!!! Pamela had gone to the Dress shopintending to kill N, but accidentally killed Stephanie! She admitted everything and said her goal was to get rid of Nicole. 

[vetsoapfan]

Yes, Dailey's character (Pamela Stewart) was the one who actually murdered Stephanie, although Nicole was falsely accused and put on trial.

[DRW50]

Reading about that story enthralled me. I've wanted to see it, even a moment of it, ever since.

[Soaplovers]

Having Hirson as Stephanie on EON was genius since she had a warm demeanor so I can imagine the twist of her being Nicole's stalker was a surprise.

[Contessa Donatella]

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Edited February 19 by Contessa Donatella