"Secret Storm" memories.

[dc11786]

I've seen it listed as April 18th as Paul and Amy's return date in other papers. Here's another casting announcement.

I believe this was the article Brent was talking about earlier

[soapfave06]

I didn't realize Belle was introduced around the same time as Paul and Amy's return. I thought she had come on earlier. Thanks for sharing that!

[soapfave06]

I thought another actress played Amy after Jada left and stayed into 1968. Is this not true or did they just write Paul and Amy out a few months prior?

[saynotoursoap]

It is not true. Jada Rowland quit Secret Storm twice. She left in 1958 and was replaced first by Beverly Lunsford, who was recast for a short period in 1960 by June Carter. Jada left again in 1971, when Lynne Adams (Leslie Bauer from Guiding Light) assumed the part. Both times Amy remained on the canvas. Around late 1966/ early 1967, Jada Rowland and Nic Coster were let go from the soap. In the story, Amy and Paul moved to Cincinnati and were not recast. As the other poster stated, Amy and Paul returned in April 1968, just as Charlie Clemens' daughter Belle arrived in Woodbridge with her daughter Robin. The following month, Amy and Belle's younger sister Karen took Robin on a Memorial Day picnic to the lake. This was Secret Storm's first location shoot. Robin fell into the water and drowned. Belle blamed Amy for Robin's death, and developed a pathological hatred of the Ames family. Belle vowed to make Amy pay by losing Paul, whom Belle seduced. This was the catalyst for a very memorable, long running rivalry between the two women.

Edited September 26, 2012 by saynotoursoap

[DRW50]

Has anyone seen Lunsford or Carter in the role?

[soapfave06]

Thanks for filling me in! I had no idea that Jada had been let go from SS or that they had been written Amy out. I wish there wasn't so much false information out there throughout the first three decades of the soaps.

[saynotoursoap]

Carl, June Carter's Amy appears in the episode below. This is immediately before Jada returned the first time. Inexplicably, a blonde was cast.

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Edited September 26, 2012 by saynotoursoap

[DRW50]

Thanks! She is OK, I guess. She seems a little more unsympathetic than Jada.

[saynotoursoap]

She is too hardy for Amy. Jada worked so well because she was frail and waifish. This girl looks as if she is ready for a night at the sock hop with both Robbie and Chip from My Three Sons. I have never seen Beverly Lunsford in the part, but she also was fair-haired and a bit too va-va-va voom for sad little Amy.

[Paul Raven]

I guess the return of Paul and Amy coincided with the arrival of Belle as that was where the storyline was headed.Were there new writers at that time?

During her time away from Storm,Jada went to ATWT and played Susan.I wonder what the circumstances were.Jada replaced Diana Walker.Was it a case of ATWT not being happy with Walker or did they drop her when Jada became available?

Again when Jada left,was it because she was lured back to SS with the promise of a new story or did the role of Susan not work out?

[danfling]

June Carter also played Cookie for a time on The Edge of Night. The Cookie role was created by Fran Sharon, and she returned to it. Ms. Sharon was playing it thoughout most of the 1960s.

I had seen this clip of June Carter previously.

Although I know of no clips of Beverly Lunsford on The Secret Storm, but she appears on reruns of Leave It to Beaver as one of Wally's friends.

Jada Rowland left the show THREE times: when Ms. Carter and Ms. Lunsford played the role, when she was playing Susan on As the World Turns, and when she left and Amy was played by Lynn Adams.

That Amy (other than Jada Rowland) was lighter-haired is not out of character for the soap operas in the 1960s. The role of Patti Tate on Search for Tomorrow was played by every physical type of actress. (And, even MUCH later, Mike Roy on All My Children was played by two very different actors.)

[dc11786]

John Hess' script collection is available at Darmouth. Based on the catalogue information, he was headwriter of the show from March 1967 until July 1968 so he probably wrote the Brittons out and wrote them back in.

A columnist from around this time period wrote the following letter which gives you some details about the stories in this period.

[DRW50]

That's a funny column. I think Brent mentioned before about all the drinking.

[soapfave06]

Wow, thanks for sharing that. A little odd, but an interesting read.

Did John Hess decide to leave? Was his time on the show good or bad?

[saynotoursoap]

Jada did not leave when she went to As the World Turns to play Susan. She was dropped involuntarily from Secret Storm. The other two times, she did leave of her own accord.