Another World Discussion Thread

[Paul Raven]

That looks like Hugh Marlowe to me.

[DRW50]

Thanks. Someone in the comments said Strudwick so I wasn't sure.

[vetsoapfan]

As always, thanks for heads up. That is indeed Virginia Dwyer with Jacquie Courtney, but the actor (as other posters are mentioning) is Hugh Marlowe. The clip was misidentified on YT as being from 1967, but it's from two years after that. Hugh Marlowe debuted as Jim Matthews in 1969.

[jmgaw]

In 1969, two big changes in casting. As mentioned, Hugh Marlowe takes as Jim Matthews while Nancy Wickwire as Liz Matthews.  Without a doubt, Wickwire had a difficult replacing Audra Lindley.  Marlowe played Jim Matthews up into his death in 1982. IMO, Marlowe seemed to be phoning it in.

Edited April 29 by jmgaw

[Tisy-Lish]

Great to see Mary and Jim, and the Matthews kitchen.  A year or two after Lemay started writing, we stopped seeing the kitchen, and all the action was moved to the Matthews living room.  That may have been Paul Rauch's decision, or maybe just another way to minimize Mary's importance and take another jab at Ms Dwyer.   

I wish the Soap History guy had not chosen to put a big red watermark across the image. I do understand the physical media belongs to him, but the show is not in the public domain, so he doesn't really own the rights to the property.  The big red watermark prevents anyone from even taking a screen grab and posting it legitimately (like on the AWHP, for example) without the watermark appearing.  That's really a shame.  

Edited April 28 by Tisy-Lish

[DRW50]

I agree, although that seems to be more and more common now. One account I follow puts a weirdly positioned, very distracting timecode. Thames TV started putting weird watermarks. I do appreciate getting the see the content, of course as I would never know otherwise. I do know many reuploaded and reupload this material or even try to sell it as their own, so I get the decision for the watermark, of course, as we all do.

That's a shame about the kitchen. I wonder if Lemay/Rauch felt that the only kitchen should be Ada's.

[Tisy-Lish]

I don't mind a watermark, if it identifies the true owner of the rights to the property.  But if it's just the person who happens to have the physical video or photo, it seems very odd.  Even if they paid for it to add to their collection, that person doesn't own the copyright or the trademark.   

And I do remember finding it strange that by late 1972, Ada still had both a kitchen and a living room, while Mary and Jim now just had a living room.   And this was three years before Rachel even started to reform, when the Matthews family was still very much front and center.  

Edited April 29 by Tisy-Lish

[jmgaw]

Ada's kitchen was the centerpiece of the action. The numerous visits by Rachel which normally resulted in an argument with Ada.  Others may recall, Mac trying to reconcile with Rachel in a classic 1975 scene. Simply a brilliantly written scene by Harding LeMay with terrific performances by Douglass Watson and Victoria Wyndham.  Of course, Ada's making meals, or frosting the cake.

[Contessa Donatella]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DIjHh4Qpoe3/

My edit, Connie Ford, I call it 

Kitchen Boogie

 

[jmgaw]

Great scene with nice reaction from Rachel.

[Contessa Donatella]

I admit I am fond of it. Look around there's more.

What that tells me is how important Ada was in comparison to the supposed core.

Now that I think about it, that living room may have been wasted at Ada's house.

Edited April 30 by Contessa Donatella

[Tisy-Lish]

Exactly when did Ada's kitchen become the "centerpiece of the action"? And which set was the centerpiece of the action before that???    Another World premiered in 1963, and Ada didn't even arrive until 1967.  And then, Ada and Rachel lived in a small apartment.  A couple of years later, Ada married Ernie Downs and moved into his house. So the kitchen so identified with Ada, was actually in the house Ada inherited from her husband Ernie after he died.  

I'd suggest Ada's kitchen did not become the centerpiece of the action (if it ever was) until around the time Mary Matthews died, and Rachel began her romance with her second millionaire husband, MacKenzie Cory.  Others might disagree, but that doesn't offend me in the least.   

[Xanthe]

I was looking at the AWHP synopses from the period where Quinn had a stalker in 1984 and it refers to pranks and phone calls. Does anybody remember what the pranks were? Or were they just disturbing phone calls?

[Contessa Donatella]

1964

[Contessa Donatella]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJJTEW8J5EA/
1989 Daytime Emmys
Victoria Wyndham gives moving tribute to Douglas Watson, AW's Mac Cory

Harding "Pete" Lemay created the character Mac Cory & then Doug Watson played him for 15 years. When Doug died on May 1st, 1989, it was a huge loss to the show, the other actors & also to the fans.

 

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