Members Soapsuds Posted December 13, 2010 Members Share Posted December 13, 2010 Loved this GL promo...quick turn on the light campaign <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZFUv4dH9E?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZFUv4dH9E?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJZFUv4dH9E?fs=1&hl=en_US type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted December 13, 2010 Members Share Posted December 13, 2010 <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKUzbLG19CM?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKUzbLG19CM?fs=1&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKUzbLG19CM?fs=1&hl=en_US type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelGL Posted December 13, 2010 Members Share Posted December 13, 2010 I've always found the 40s and 50s of GL the most interesting, being that it had Meta as the main heroine, with her marriage to Ted White, her shooting of him, and her eventual marriage to Joe Roberts with the interference of Joe's daughter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 15, 2010 Members Share Posted December 15, 2010 December 1972 TV Dawn to Dusk (Ideal Publishing). Do any of you know more about Olivia Cole's role on the show? I know her more from her later appearances in things like Roots and Backstairs at the White House. I didn't know she was on GL. I'm surprised a soap magazine at this time would feature an interracial couple. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jam6242 Posted December 15, 2010 Members Share Posted December 15, 2010 I believe Olivia Cole's character was one of the women involved with Stanley Norris. He was sleeping with her mother around the same time. I believe her mother was Freddy (Rick) Bauer's nanny. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 15, 2010 Members Share Posted December 15, 2010 Really? Wow. I'm surprised GL would tell an interracial story at that time -- even later on they often seemed reluctant to do so. Who played her mother? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jam6242 Posted December 15, 2010 Members Share Posted December 15, 2010 (edited) I can't remember the actress' name but she later played the grandmother on "Family Matters!" And I think she played Nell Carter's mother on "Gimme a Break." Edited December 15, 2010 by jam6242 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 15, 2010 Members Share Posted December 15, 2010 (edited) Rosetta Lenoire? I really wish I could see this story. I never knew Stanley Norris was involved in a relationship with Rosetta Lenoira. I thought it was just Lesley. Who was writing the show at this time? I think Rittenburg was still producer? Edited December 15, 2010 by CarlD2 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jam6242 Posted December 15, 2010 Members Share Posted December 15, 2010 This was all going on while he was married to Leslie! I don't remember details but I do remember that Stanley Norris was one of the most "icky" characters I have seen. William Smithers was playing him when I watched (and I believe he was the last to play him) and I could never see him in anything else without having a negative reaction to the sight of him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 15, 2010 Members Share Posted December 15, 2010 The rest of the article. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted December 15, 2010 Members Share Posted December 15, 2010 A black American woman at RADA in the '60s, I am so incrediby impressed by that and the work she went on to do at Arena Stage. She seems younger, but I can't help but wonder if she and Erika Slezak and/or Pamela Payton-Wright were at RADA around the same time. What a great article, so nice to learn more about her. I wonder if they're still together. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 15, 2010 Members Share Posted December 15, 2010 I've wanted to see this ever since I read about it - I remember the photo of Stanley and Lesley in his penthouse of whatever. I always thought it was odd that Lesley was taken from being in the middle of Bauer stories to suddenly marrying this wealthy man who was so evil. And then his relationships with his kids, those must have been interesting (especially the one with Holly). I also never understood how Barbara, who saw herself as such a moral crusader, tolerated being with him for so long. Unless Barbara was different back then. So at the time did GL have more of a balck cast than they later on? I didn't realize that Cole was on the show for 2-3 years. IMDB lists her run as ending in 1971 but she must have been on through at least some of 1972. I wonder why GL had this whole idea of these moguls and their black mistresses, which is such a touchy, volatile issue, but never directly confronted it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jam6242 Posted December 17, 2010 Members Share Posted December 17, 2010 Well, Leslie had married Stanley on the rebound because Mike had married Charlotte Waring when he found out Leslie was pregnant with Ed's baby. And Ed cheated on Leslie with Janet Mason. I think Barbara was already divorced from Stanley when she first appeared on the show. My first memories of her are of her being involved with Adam Thorpe. The children were all grown. The only other black character I remember from that time period was the husband of Olivia Cole's character, but I can't remember his name. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 17, 2010 Members Share Posted December 17, 2010 I know when Barbara first started she had a cooking show or something. That was dropped wasn't it? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jam6242 Posted December 17, 2010 Members Share Posted December 17, 2010 I believe it was a newspaper column about cooking, but yes, that was dropped. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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