Guiding Light Discussion Thread

[amybrickwallace]

Thanks for sharing the link. Thankfully, she went on to quite a successful career though as far as I can tell GL was her only continuing soap gig.

[Nicholas Blair]

Does anyone else remember Lynn Deerfield as the original Holly Norris? She was excellent, in a very different way from Maureen Garrett, and tall and lanky whereas Maureen was shorter, with dark hair and a rounder body. As originally conceived, Holly was a spoiled rich girl, though generally sympathetic. MG's Holly always seemed much more middle-class. Although Maureen Garrett was obviously a good actress, it took a good while for me to accept her as Holly. She was at least as different from Lynn Deerfield as Victoria Wyndham was from Robin Strasser.

I did not see Holly's introduction to the show or the trial where Leslie, then played by Barbara Rodell, was accused of the murder of Holly's father. However, I loved the very well-written story as Holly married a fallen-off-the-wagon Ed Bauer (Mart Hulswit) in Vegas, her brother Ken (Roger Newman) married Janet Mason (Caroline McWilliams), who had once had an affair with Ed, and Holly's ex-boyfriend Roger Thorpe (Michael Zaslow) pursued Janet, mainly because she couldn't stand him. Roger made it appear to Ken and Holly that he actually was having an affair with Janet, activating Ken's jealousy. All of these actors gave consistently fine performances, and all had great working chemistry with each other. With Roger's father (Robert Milli) falling for Holly's mother (Barbara Berjer), the situation became even more tangled.

To me, this character-based storytelling was more interesting than the contrived issue-oriented spousal rape drama which would eventually follow.

[bboy875]

I didn't know Dennehy thought Pam Long didn't like her. I always thought she was recast because Long wanted to redefine Blake after they turned her into Christina. Also, she was in Philip and Rick's age group and Chrissy was born about 5 yrs after Rick, so I thought they wanted to de-age her a bit. SOD said the show was taking Blake in a new direction. I swear Dennehy, in her exit interview with SOD, said she wouldn't do another soap. I don't remember context so I'm not sure if it was a knock against the show, daytime, or not a knock at all. I do remember when Larkin Malloy left as Kyle, he did say he would never do GL again because the writers kept keeping Kyle and Reva apart lol 

[amybrickwallace]

She did a short gig on Y&R in 2013:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/daytimeconfidential.com/.amp/2013/09/27/elizabeth-dennehy-drops-by-the-young-and-the-restless

[bboy875]

Thanks! I don't think I've watched a full episode of Y&R since Dru fell off the cliff lol 

[BetterForgotten]

Sherry has an element of fun that I don't think any of the other Blake's had. She was just fun to watch and you couldn't keep your eyes off of her when she was in a scene.

I know Sherry remained close with Michael Zaslow after she left, and when he died, she remained close with his family. 

[Forever8]

Another Guiding Light Alum to the Locher Room : Kevin Mambo (ex Marcus Williams) 

Two-time Emmy Award-winning actor Kevin Mambo will be my guest live in The Locher Room on September 23rd at 3 p.m. EST / 12 p.m. PST.

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[amybrickwallace]

That should be an interesting episode. Thanks for the heads up.

[BoldRestless]

I'm not sure if you all have seen this, but I came across this collection of 96 radio episodes of GL from 1950!

https://archive.org/details/1950-11-24-886-bill-gloria-talk/1950-07-26+-+797)+Stays+with+Charlotte.mp3 

 

Edit: Another set of 100 episodes

https://archive.org/details/otr_guidinglight 

Edited September 17, 2021 by BoldRestless

[Bill Bauer]

 

Those are the same episodes. I guess they were just posted by different people. There are 197 consecutive episodes from 1950/1951 that we are VERY lucky to have. It was one of the best times for GL (if not the best). 

[vetsoapfan]

ITA. That entire stretch of episodes is mesmerizing. I would happily listen to the full run of radio eps of TGL than endure any of the soap episodes being produced on television today.

[SFK]

Perfectly put, ITA. This is the type of Valentine to the fans one would expect to see in a soap magazine, not People, and I applaud People for it. It disappoints me that SOD never did a series of spreads like this one for Blake. Imagine all of the Vikis, the Dorians, the Jills… the Kevins (oy).

[amybrickwallace]

The nice thing is that People continued to make commemorative soap issues (GH's 50th, the end of AMC and OLTL).

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[BetterForgotten]

I have to believe that whole sequence set to Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer's #1 hit No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) was an ode to gay fans of the show. 

Edited September 20, 2021 by BetterForgotten