DAYS: Behind the Scenes, Articles/Photos

[carolineg]

Thanks!  I'll have to check out recaps to see what Mike was up to during that time.  

I will always be curious who made the decisions and why during that time because it seems like what press is available varies so much from who was actually writing the show.

[AbcNbc247]

The story was always that the network fired Wesley Eure because he was gay.

As for Mike, I think he left Salem to go train be a paramedic. He came back the following year. 

[Contessa Donatella]

Did he get outed or something? I mean, was it fine one day & then not fine or did something happen to bring it to the attention of people?

 

[AbcNbc247]

I don’t think it was made public, but people at the show knew 

[Contessa Donatella]

Such a shame. People at different shows always knew. I remember someone talking about NBC and a Gay Panic. I think that was said when they killed off Perry Hutchins on AW.

[Paul Raven]

From Wesley Eure's WLS interview

I was doing other things at the time, but it came out later that I got fired because I was gay. The make-up people would call and say, "Wesley, you know the real reason they let you go is because everyone's talking about it." At the time one of the heads of NBC was Earl Greenburg, and I knew Earl and his partner, who died of AIDS. When I moved to Palm Springs, Earl Greenburg had now formed the Desert AIDS Project and he had the Rick Weiss Awards which was named after his partner, and had done a complete turnaround. He passed on last year. I raise a lot of money for AIDS, and the first thing he said to me when I saw him at a big fundraiser was, "Didn't I fire you?" And I said, "You [!@#$%^&*]." The word on the street was "you were gay and they wanted someone else." Can I prove it? No. Was it legend? Yes.

[Contessa Donatella]

Thanks!

[victoria foxton]

 

 

  

[dolphziggler]

Alex was a scoundrel, but he really seemed to genuinely care about Jessica and Marie. I think that's one of the reasons he was such a fascinating character.

[Paul Raven]

The dreaded Maggie surrogate story. When Pat Falken Smith arrived she declared she was puzzled by that story. She said Maggie would be the least likely woman to agree to surrogacy. She had never had a child and desperately wanted one.

It would have been better for Mickey and Maggie to use a surrogate themselves.

Did Maggie ever get a decent story once she married Mickey?

Stuart Whyland replaced Kellam Chandler as the Salem older villian. When PFS arrived she made Stuart an employee of Stefano, who used him to lay the groundwork for the DiMera takeover of Salem.

[AbcNbc247]

Or maybe even have Maggie become artificially inseminated, and the drama could have come from Mickey as he deals with the fact that his wife is basically having another's man baby.

[I Am A Swede]

Especially with the whole Mickey/Laura/Bill story and Mike's paternity in mind.

[JAS0N47]

"DAYS" CAST IN THE 1950 CENSUS...

Here's Bill Hayes (Doug) in the 1950 census. He's listed as a 24-year-old "television entertainer", living in New York City with his wife and two children.

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Here's Susan Seaforth Hayes (Julie). Then known as Susan Seabold, she lived in Los Angeles with her mother, future "Days" head writer Elizabeth Harrower (then listed as an actress).

Here's Suzanne Rogers (Maggie) in the 1950 census. Rogers, then known as Suzanne Crumpler, was 6 years old and living with her family in Petersburg, Virginia.

Two-year-old twins Deidre Hall (Marlena) and Andrea Hall (Samantha/Hattie) lived with their parents in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan.

Here's 3-year-old James Reynolds (Abe), living in Kansas City with his parents and two brothers.

[Contessa Donatella]

Jason, that's a hoot and a half! Very cool info!

[JAS0N47]

Here's Peggy McCay (Caroline), then 21, and listed as a legitimate theater actress. She lived in New York City with her parents.

 

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Here's Frances Reid (Alice), and her husband, Philip Bourneuf. They were listed as radio/television actors living in New York.

 

 

Here's Macdonald Carey (Tom) and his family living in Los Angeles. Already a famous movie actor in 1950, the Careys employed both a live-in nurse/nanny for their newborn baby, as well as a live-in maid.

 

Very!  I'm quite surprised and happy to see that the 1950 census is now already searchable by name. It was only released 2 months ago, so I thought we wouldn't be able to get the search-by-name feature available until some point in 2022, but it only took two months!   

Seeing Jim Reynolds, I've learned he was actually born in Kansas City and raised in Oskaloosa, so that's new info to me (I found a newspaper article to verify that as well).

Also, Mac Carey was already rich enough in 1950 to employ both a live-in nanny and maid!