31 minutes ago, watson71 said:

Go to the 11 minute mark- Stephen discusses how Paul Rauch hired him to play Cass and his screen test with the brilliant Nancy Frangione.  He says that Nancy was a cheerleader for him when he started on AW.

Thank you!

There were so many Cecile stories to love but I will never forget when Cecile realized that Alma Rudder was completely bonkers and she had no idea how she was going to control her.  Nancy was brilliant!

Sad about Nancy Frangione. She was such an amazing and underrated talent. There are some MatchGame/Hollywood Squares on youtube with Nancy Frangione and her then husband Chris Rich on them. Worth watching. She was fun on the show. 

 

 

I'm so saddened by the death of Nancy. Cecile is my fave daytime character ever! She played the part just perfectly, even if the writing wasn't the best (trying to pass off Maggie as Cass's was just wrong). Her appearances on AW helped me get through many a horrible day while growing up. Whether it were Majorca, Bay City, or even Tanquir, I loved escaping to wherever Cecile was. 

 

Thanks @Melroser I was looking for that clip.

I didn't see a whole lot of Nancy's original AW run, but more than enough to know she was a bright spot in what I felt was a very bad time for the show. I don't know who identified her flair for comedy in her subsequent runs, but I'm glad they did – she was even more enjoyable when she injected her scheming temptress with large dollops of humor.

RIP Nancy, and thanks for the memories. 

Variety has posted an obituary.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/nancy-frangione-dead-all-my-children-another-world-1235703064/

I really enjoyed Nancy as Cecile, especially her agreeing to "help" Donna by helping Peter get over Sally. The Variety obituary seems to stop after Cecile caught Sandy, perhaps because of Nancy's marriage to Chris Rich, but of course there was a while when Cass was seeing Cecile behind Felicia's back, and then Cecile telling Cass she couldn't really choose between him and Peter. I don't think she was quite as frank with Peter.

Looking for more information I learned that Chris Rich and his current wife appeared on the Polish version of Real Housewives and also that he had a stroke a few years ago but seems to have made a pretty good recovery.

https://www.neuroskills.com/about/mediacenter/cns-videos/chris-rich-part-2-introduction/

 

If you never saw the murder of Frankie Frame on AW, now you can. https://www.facebook.com/shallotpeel/videos/203053586099426

This is heartbreaking. 

There was always so much turnaround BTS on AW and it seemed like Nancy/Cecile often got lost in the shuffle. Cecile could have driven story for years and she never really got the chance after her first run and Nancy definitely had the talent to do so

RIP

12 hours ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

If you never saw the murder of Frankie Frame on AW, now you can.

I don't think I want to watch that again, but I do want to mention that Alice Barret is once again recurring on season 2 of the Starz series, "Heels." I'm always pleasantly surprised when she pops up in a movie or TV show. 

On 8/24/2023 at 6:51 AM, teplin said:

I don't think I want to watch that again, but I do want to mention that Alice Barret is once again recurring on season 2 of the Starz series, "Heels." I'm always pleasantly surprised when she pops up in a movie or TV show. 

I cannot remember it. At all. So I know I blanked it out. So I am working up to re-watch it. 

Meanwhile, I am so saddened by NF's death. She was so good & she didn't always have writing that was as good as it should have been. But she was fully Cecile even if she was working with sorta "shite". In the beginning of the clip I posted betw her & Rachel, the way she spits out each word is so so sharp, good, etc. I never realized she was one of the Taras! And, her Phil, Nick Benedict just died, what, 3 weeks ago. Dadgum. 

In Kim Wells AW group https://www.facebook.com/groups/340323040018309 she has quickly made more than 25 Cecile clips from her private collection of AW videos. I would suggest that this is the current mother lode.

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6 hours ago, AbcNbc247 said:

There was always so much turnaround BTS on AW and it seemed like Nancy/Cecile often got lost in the shuffle.

Not to speak ill of the dead, but, Laura Malone (aka Blaine) might quibble about Nancy getting lost in the shuffle.  During that period, Nancy seemed to have a lot of power backstage.  At least enough to have her side of the story about Laura's firing "leaked" to the press.

I don't intend to sound too quippy, but I think that era of backstage drama is interesting.

Edited August 24, 20232 yr by j swift

1 hour ago, j swift said:

but I think that era of backstage drama is interesting.

Do you think more "scandals" got reported? I kinda do.