1 hour ago, Aback said:

I just got into a rabbit hole and found out that VW is Latin-American and her son played Dexter's brother on Dexter S01?

Her son also played Dracula in the final season of the series Penny Dreadful.  

13 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Yes, they were very close, much more like best friends than sisters. And Felice literally handled so many details for her that VW would've hated dealing with. I have a picture of Felice & VW ... somewhere. 🙃

 

You mean like this? 

https://rumble.com/v5d6hte-gl-4-1-1972.html

This is my vintage soap channel. There should be more like this. 

https://rumble.com/c/c-6713140

Thanks for sharing.

57 minutes ago, SoapDope said:

Thanks for sharing.

You're very welcome. My channel for these soaps, ATWT & GL from 1953 to 1979, now has more than 50 episodes & I'm still uploading. 

https://rumble.com/c/c-6713140

On 8/31/2024 at 12:24 PM, Contessa Donatella said:

I haven't been on DataLounge in a dozen years or more. Why is Vicky Wyndham a topic there these days? I was Gossipgrrrrrl. 

They still post about the "Marvelous Midwestern Towns," and someone inevitably talks about VW's interview when she pompously said that the president of NBC told her that the only reason they keep AW on is because of her....ooohhhhkaay Vicky!!!!

25 minutes ago, Mitch64 said:

They still post about the "Marvelous Midwestern Towns," and someone inevitably talks about VW's interview when she pompously said that the president of NBC told her that the only reason they keep AW on is because of her....ooohhhhkaay Vicky!!!!

Ah, yes, of course that was one specific NBC Prez. Later, whomever at NBC tried their dead level best to get rid of her!!! She seemed to provoke rather extreme reactions!! 

My vintage soaps channel, ATWT & GL, 1952-1979, 77 videos 

https://rumble.com/c/c-6713140/about

10 hours ago, Mitch64 said:

They still post about the "Marvelous Midwestern Towns," and someone inevitably talks about VW's interview when she pompously said that the president of NBC told her that the only reason they keep AW on is because of her....ooohhhhkaay Vicky!!!!

Honestly, I think the only reason NBC kept AW on for so long was because they were afraid to lose that hour to the affiliates, which ended up happening anyway.

1 minute ago, Khan said:

Honestly, I think the only reason NBC kept AW on for so long was because they were afraid to lose that hour to the affiliates, which ended up happening anyway.

Well it was the NBC affiliates who were the first to go renegade.

12 hours ago, Khan said:

Honestly, I think the only reason NBC kept AW on for so long was because they were afraid to lose that hour to the affiliates, which ended up happening anyway.

I just thought it was funny that a 40-50 something with an acting style, which is to say the least, an acquired taste, would boast that, thereby putting down the rest of the cast, the wrtiters, production staff, etc. Geez..if our own Kimmer never said that!

 

1 hour ago, Mitch64 said:

I just thought it was funny that a 40-50 something with an acting style, which is to say the least, an acquired taste, would boast that, thereby putting down the rest of the cast, the wrtiters, production staff, etc. Geez..if our own Kimmer never said that!

 

Yes, that pseudo-British accent VW started using in the last few years of the show was one of the strangest acting choices I have ever seen anywhere.  Until then, I had always liked her acting, but I believe she more and more began to play herself, as the years went by.  Why in the world would working-class Rachel Davis ever ever ever use a British accent?  Connie Ford would have slapped that accent right out of her mouth.  

Edited September 3, 20241 yr by Mona Kane Croft

3 minutes ago, Mona Kane Croft said:

Yes, that pseudo-British accent VW started using in the last few years of the show was one of the strangest acting choices I have ever seen anywhere.  Until then, I had always liked her acting, but I believe she more and more began to play herself, as the years went by.  Why in the world would working-class Rachel Davis ever ever ever use a British accent?  Connie Ford would have slapped that accent right out of her mouth.  

I don't know why we are talking about a primarily AW actress here in GL. But, I suspect that in the last years of the show when Victoria & Charles were regularly performing COUPLETS  and LOVE LETTERS live at various cities that she was influenced overmuch by Charles Keating, who regularly had a kind of a "posh" speaking style.

9 minutes ago, Contessa Donatella said:

I don't know why we are talking about a primarily AW actress here in GL. But, I suspect that in the last years of the show when Victoria & Charles were regularly performing COUPLETS  and LOVE LETTERS live at various cities that she was influenced overmuch by Charles Keating, who regularly had a kind of a "posh" speaking style.

Discussion of VW got started here because we were discussing her role as Charlotte Bauer.  It's only natural that the conversation might evolve to her work on AW.  There is really no way to avoid that, especially if people engage.  I'm sure it won't go on forever. It doesn't bother me at all, since she did play an important role on GL early in her career.  

I will agree with you, VW may have picked up that accent through working so closely with Charles Keating.  But that's really not a good excuse.  She is an actress who played a character for whom that accent was completely out of character.  Just my opinion.  

Edited September 3, 20241 yr by Mona Kane Croft

47 minutes ago, Mona Kane Croft said:

I will agree with you, VW may have picked up that accent through working so closely with Charles Keating.  But that's really not a good excuse.  She is an actress who played a character for whom that accent was completely out of character.  Just my opinion.  

To bring it back around..I think that Rachel and Carl (who I remember as trying to kill her and her family) appealed to the same "demo" that was into Matt and Vanessa...women of a certain age who liked the fantasy..damn if it makes sense or not.

 

10 minutes ago, Mitch64 said:

To bring it back around..I think that Rachel and Carl (who I remember as trying to kill her and her family) appealed to the same "demo" that was into Matt and Vanessa...women of a certain age who liked the fantasy..damn if it makes sense or not.

When they wrote the Reformation of Carl & the Romancing of Rachel they took their time, wrote very carefully, over about 18 months & while it is true some fans still contend that Rachel would never have forgiven Carl & was incapable of loving him, others of us were convinced. 

It began with Carl, learning late in his life that Ryan was his son. Wanting to gain some level of respect from Ryan, he offered Rachel his 10% of Cory Publishing shares if she'd have dinner with him one night, in public. 

The only comparisons I've ever seen made of GL's "Mattessa" was to AW's Donna Love in a romantic relationship with Matt Cory. It was very popular but JFP ended it because she thought it was a waste of Matt, who she immediately paired with Josie, a young woman, someone his own age.

1 hour ago, Mona Kane Croft said:

Yes, that pseudo-British accent VW started using in the last few years of the show was one of the strangest acting choices I have ever seen anywhere.  Until then, I had always liked her acting, but I believe she more and more began to play herself, as the years went by.  Why in the world would working-class Rachel Davis ever ever ever use a British accent?  Connie Ford would have slapped that accent right out of her mouth.  

It's weird how an actor will play a role for decades and then decide to tweak it and play it totally different. VW is a prime example of that. Brenda on Y&R started camping up Jill in the 80's and came across as a hybrid of Joan Collins and Bette Davis. She also kind of picked up a eurotrash accent at the end of her run.