4 hours ago, Xanthe said:

I don't remember the character of Linda. Apparently the actress created a cosmetics line.

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Yes, I saw Vera Moore on a quiz show once, in which contestants competed against each other to be the first to guess the profession of the guest. She was working in cosmetics by then. As soon as I saw her, I exclaimed, "That's Linda Metcalf from Another World!!!"

I thought she was a lovely and talented performer. The soap was dumb to let her go. But then again, AW had fired so many beloved actors/major characters, nothing surprised me by then.

Moore ended up in a better position anyway, I'd say.

7 hours ago, vetsoapfan said:

I thought she was a lovely and talented performer. The soap was dumb to let her go. But then again, AW had fired so many beloved actors/major characters, nothing surprised me by then.

Moore ended up in a better position anyway, I'd say.

Do we know for certain whether she was fired or made the decision to leave? She might have wanted to focus on her cosmetics idea.

It looks like she overlapped a little bit with Quinn in 1981, and then post-Linda Henrietta came on in 1982. Do you recall whether Linda and Quinn interacted?

Based on the way they wrote out Quinn it's equally easy to believe they failed to appreciate Linda and let Vera Moore go, but it would be so much nicer if it was her own choice.

3 hours ago, Xanthe said:

Do we know for certain whether she was fired or made the decision to leave? She might have wanted to focus on her cosmetics idea.

It looks like she overlapped a little bit with Quinn in 1981, and then post-Linda Henrietta came on in 1982. Do you recall whether Linda and Quinn interacted?

Based on the way they wrote out Quinn it's equally easy to believe they failed to appreciate Linda and let Vera Moore go, but it would be so much nicer if it was her own choice.

IIRC, at the time, Moore said in the press that AW "just stopped writing me into the show."

TPTB were so incompetent and disorganized at the time, I don't think anyone there had a clear plan of what they were doing.

I don't recall Linda and Quinn ever interacting, but after 45 years, the memory can be hazy.

41 minutes ago, vetsoapfan said:

IIRC, at the time, Moore said in the press that AW "just stopped writing me into the show."

TPTB were so incompetent and disorganized at the time, I don't think anyone there had a clear plan of what they were doing.

I don't recall Linda and Quinn ever interacting, but after 45 years, the memory can be hazy.

I believe Ms Moore was not on contract during her final few years on AW. When Linda Metcalf first joined the show, she came on as the sister of Peggy Nolan. Peggy was a popular, fairly long-running character, and Harding Lemay wanted to build a family around her. So Lemay created Linda and the mother of both sisters, Gloria -- all contract characters, I assume. I believe Gloria and Linda lived together in an apartment, which became one of the sets on the show. Fairly soon, Linda started dating a young man (Zac Richards) who, if I remember correctly, had recently gotten out of prison or jail. This caused Gloria some concern and it seemed to be a developing story. Unfortunately about six months after Linda and Gloria were introduced, Micki Grant (who played Peggy) left the show. Grant's absence seemed to take the wind out of any plans Rauch and Lemay had for the Metcalf family, probably because Peggy was the most important of the three characters. Gloria stopped appearing, then Zac stopped appearing, although Linda would sometimes mention him, or Alice would ask about him. No plots were written for Linda, and she became little more than a colleague and friend of Alice, and a nurse when the show needed a nurse. So I'm assuming Ms Moore was taken off contract by 1974-ish, and then appeared rather infrequently, and usually in scenes at the hospital.

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