http://www.welovesoaps.net/2010/05/helen-wagner-has-passed-away.html

This is shocking news! She seemed find during her last scenes with Juianne Moore and even giving her acting tips.

Oh no

I was hoping she'd get to be in the final episode, since she was in the first. She was such an important part of television for millions of people, and she always had such an understated yet effective emotional style. Her relationship with Mac really touched my heart.

I'm so sorry to hear this, and to her friends and family and all her co-workers.

Will they have time to address this on the show?

At least Helen is with her husband now

Dear Lord. RIP

:( :( :(

Will they have time to address this on the show?

They better. I also want her to say the last words on the show, even though it will have to be via flashback.

Wow, this really surprised me. I didn't know she was even remotely sick. Rest in Peace to a true television legend.

I think it would be fitting if Nancy's death filled the last week of the show.

WLS has some clips up, but this is the one I've gone back to for months now, the 30th anniversary, when Helen Wagner and the cast sing "Always."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeGrE--nCKU

Edited May 3, 201015 yr by CarlD2

My good friend, Dagne Crane, who played Sandy Hughes, the 2nd Mrs. Bob Hughes from 1965-1971, kept in touch with Helen over the years. No doubt I will be speaking to Dagne in the morning.

Oh no!

So many daytime legends have died this year.

They have to incorporate into the final scene of ATWT somehow.

RIP

Wow.

They only have a month left of taping

If the bastards at CBS werent so greedy and evil I would hold out hope of them giving the show at least 3 extra months to handle this situation.

So sad.

They have to incorporate into the final scene of ATWT somehow.

It's time to bring back ALL the Hughes back for her final farewell. Goutman better do something!!!

I don't cry over people I've known most of my life but I do over someone I never met. I guess so many of us did basically know her.

Each time one of these legends goes, I'm more reminded that daytime is also gone

Frances and Helen, daytime's last remaining matriarchs gone in the same year.

Each time one of these legends goes, I'm more reminded that daytime is also gone

Oh no, not Helen. Please tell me this is some sort of bad dream.

I'm just in shock, no, this can't be happening, and with ATWT going off soon. No Nancy for the farewell.

RIP Helen Wagner, she'll always be my favourite US soap matriarch, as she's the one I have the longest history with watching over the years.