1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

I don't think I'd seen this before. Probably the last scene of note with Cecile and Blaine.

Another World - (May 30,1984)(Clip)

@slick jones This has a cast crawl that may help you.

How cool! That's Kelly Bishop from Gilmore Girls playing Cecile's cellmate.

Another choice for Gerald Davis: Michael Higgins, a NYC film and theatre actor, who was in the original B'way cast of "Equus" and who appeared in films like "The Stepford Wives" and "The Conversation," as well as many early TV shows during the '50's and '60's. ("Andy Griffith Show" fans might remember him in Don Knotts' final appearance on the show during the eighth and last season. "Law & Order" fans will remember him as the retired college campus security guard who shot and killed a student during the '60's anti-war movement and then dumped him and his VW van in the river, not knowing that the student was actually working undercover for the police).

I'm surprised John Aniston wasn't brought on as a re-cast Gerald before he headed to Days.

Here's a totally random one, Jack Lord from the original Hawaii Five-0 series. The only problem with that is I can't really picture sophisticated Lord being married to gruff Ford's Ada. Lord & Ford hey that sounds like a business partnership...LOL

Yea Jack Lord is going to Brooklyn...why not Jack Klugman?

How about Albert Stratton-he played Erica's long lost father so why not Rachel's?

Or David Gale ex Rusty SFT?

3 minutes ago, Paul Raven said:

Yea Jack Lord is going to Brooklyn...why not Jack Klugman?

How about Albert Stratton-he played Erica's long lost father so why not Rachel's?

Or David Gale ex Rusty SFT?

I agree.

Albert Stratton or David Gale could have worked as Gerald Davis. It all really depends on the writing, and how much the head-writer knows about Gerald's history with Ada and Rachel. If the writer doesn't know Gerald's history, then he/she is going to write garbage that even Walter Matthews could not make compelling.

So even though we've been talking about casting. The writing is even more important. Gerald Davis was a complicated character, and not every soap-opera writer would have had the skill to write Gerald as troubled and believable.

Edited 21 hours ago21 hr by Tisy-Lish

The one May 1984 episode of AW that has never surfaced on YouTube is the episode where Peter finds out Cecile was in cahoots with Donna to break up his engagement with Sally and that Cecile was marrying him for money. This causes Cecile and Donna to have a fist fight in the Love drawing room. At the end of the episode, Cecile gives her famous “As God is my witness, I’ll never tell the truth again” speech.

7 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Yea Jack Lord is going to Brooklyn...why not Jack Klugman?

How about Albert Stratton-he played Erica's long lost father so why not Rachel's?

Or David Gale ex Rusty SFT?

David would have been a good choice, as long as they didn't make him a psycho.

12 hours ago, robbwolff said:

How cool! That's Kelly Bishop from Gilmore Girls playing Cecile's cellmate.

Good spot. The NYC soaps were so important for actors in bit parts.

7 hours ago, watson71 said:

The one May 1984 episode of AW that has never surfaced on YouTube is the episode where Peter finds out Cecile was in cahoots with Donna to break up his engagement with Sally and that Cecile was marrying him for money. This causes Cecile and Donna to have a fist fight in the Love drawing room. At the end of the episode, Cecile gives her famous “As God is my witness, I’ll never tell the truth again” speech.

By this time, the writers had totally forgotten Cecile's history as a French aristocrat and daughter of a count. The idea of her being a gold-digger was silly. They wrote her like someone from the wrong side of the tracks. But it was funny, and that's all that mattered.

9 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Yea Jack Lord is going to Brooklyn...why not Jack Klugman?

How about Albert Stratton-he played Erica's long lost father so why not Rachel's?

Or David Gale ex Rusty SFT?

Jack Lord was from Brooklyn, so I figured he still at roots there and could pop in as Gerald.

Jack Klugman did enter my mind as well.......LOL

6 hours ago, Tisy-Lish said:

By this time, the writers had totally forgotten Cecile's history as a French aristocrat and daughter of a count. The idea of her being a gold-digger was silly. They wrote her like someone from the wrong side of the tracks.

I think that's a bit of an oversimplification. Reading the synopses from 1979, they established then that Cecile suspected that Philip had originally dumped her because she wouldn't have access to her inheritance until she was 35. And then later when it was revealed that the Count was not her biological father and actually Elena and Louis St George were her bio parents there was a mention that she would be entitled to Louis' Swiss bank account. It is not clear to me whether the parentage reveal was explicitly supposed to have caused her to forfeit any inheritance from the Count or if it was still inaccessible to her at her age (did they ever admit that she had reached the age of 35?), but Cecile was definitely interested in Louis' (ill-gotten) money at that time.

One of the reasons Iris liked the idea of Cecile for Dennis would have been her background. The same for Donna befriending Cecile and wanting her to replace Sally in Peter's affections. And although soaps will bend over backwards to come up with reasons why rich characters are suddenly poor in order to create conflict, I don't think we should ever underestimate how much already rich people can feel entitled to even more money than they already have or at least how much they need to remain very very comfortable -- how many titled Brits married American heiresses? How motivated are multi-millionaires and billionaires to avoid paying more taxes?

I have complained of not liking Jamie as a doctor when he returned in 1986, but I did notice a mention in 1979 that he was making plans to go to medical school and discussed them with Cecile.

Thanks @watson71 for the videos. I could not believe my ears when Cecile and Peter announced the theme of their wedding on such short notice and then everyone readily showed up in costume.

Edited 7 hours ago7 hr by Xanthe