1 hour ago, JAS0N47 said:

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

 

 

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.

 

 

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

Yes, he was a very successful movie star, even was considered a "matinee idol", I believe.

Here's 6-year-old Josh Taylor (Roman), then known as Tim, living with his family in North Chillicothe, Illinois.

 

 

  

Here's John Aniston (Victor), then 16 and listed with his Greek last name Anastassakis, living with his family in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. 

4 hours ago, JAS0N47 said:

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

I wonder if at some point in the 50's the hired help were fired as the Carey's had to do some belt tightening when the movie roles dried up?

He had the security of a Paramount contract in the 40's.

Edited June 11, 20223 yr by Paul Raven

5 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

 

  

It's so interesting to see how many characters Marlena is interacting with.   The thing I used to love about Days is how everyone knew one another's business and was involved with one another.  GH and Y&R always had people in separate bubbles that didn't often know one another or only peripherally did.  Marlena's related to half the town these days and doesn't interact with as many people this year as she did in this clip lol.

Unrelated, but Salemites really have great hair and makeup for the gym🤣

5 hours ago, JAS0N47 said:

Here's John Aniston (Victor), then 16 and listed with his Greek last name Anastassakis, living with his family in Eddystone, Pennsylvania. 

That's a bit wild on the places of birth: Crete, Crete, Wyoming, Crete.

1950 CENSUS: THE HORTON KIDS

 

John Clarke...Claremont, CA (Claremont verified as his high school hometown via newspapers)

 

Marie Cheatham (Marie Hirth)...Houston, TX (new info confirmed with additional research: birth name is Marie Hatcher; parents divorced in 1941; father died in World War II in 1944; mother married Mr. Hirth by 1950; then mother married Odell Cheatham in 1952)

 

Edward Mallory (Edward Martz)...Cumberland, MD

 

John Lupton...New York, NY

 

Patricia Huston (Patricia Baker)...Tucson, AZ (at Chi Omega Sorority House as a student)

BRIEFLY ON "DAYS"...FAMOUS ON OTHER SOAPS

 

Marla Adams...Ocean City, NJ

 

Darlene Conley...Homewood, IL

 

1960'S "DAYS" CAST...

 

Denise Alexander...Queens, NY

 

Susan Flannery...Key West, FL (living at Mary Imaculata Convent as a student) (Key West verified as an early residence via newspapers) 

 

1970's "DAYS" CAST...

 

Jed Allan (Jed Brown)...Bronx, NY

 

Joseph Gallison...Boston, MA

 

Quinn Redeker...Seattle, WA

 

1980's "DAYS" CAST...

 

John deLancie...Philadelphia, PA

 

Joy Garrett...Fort Worth, TX

 

Ron Leath...Graves County, KY

 

Gloria Loring (Gloria Goff)...New York, NY

 

Wayne Northrop...Sumner, WA

 

Frank Parker...Upper Darby, PA

 

1990's "DAYS" CAST...

 

Jaime Lyn Bauer (Norma Bauer)...Maricopa County, AZ

 

Elaine Bromka...Irondequoit, NY

 

Patrika Darbo (Patrika Meeks)...Myrtle Beach, SC

 

Louise Sorel (Louise Cohen)...Los Angeles, CA

William Utay...Dallas, TX

 

  

On 6/11/2022 at 7:21 PM, Paul Raven said:

I wonder if at some point in the 50's the hired help were fired as the Carey's had to do some belt tightening when the movie roles dried up?

He had the security of a Paramount contract in the 40's.

After some additional research, I found another unexpected Days actor to have had a maid in 1950 as well: 3-year-old Jane Elliot. Her dad was an attorney. I found one mention of her real last name in a 1965 interview she did: Stein, so that got the ball rolling on finding her in the 1950 census.

A Fan Review of Murdering My Youth: a Memoir by Cady McClain

©April 15, 2014 271 pages

For a fan of Cady McClain's like me this book is hard to read. Cady truly had a terrible childhood. Her family of origin was nightmarish. It was her parents, her older sister and herself. Her mother and father were alcoholics who had no decent boundaries. They were as random as people with undiagnosed mental problems can be. Everything was high drama with them. They paraded around naked and both took showers with the two girls when they were much too old for that. They fought and made up until they finally divorced. I found myself worrying about 'poor little Cady'. Even after the divorce her mother Dana was obsessed with everything bad about her father. And, money, well, they rarely had enough. Cady was a child actor and began doing commercials, TV shows and plays at a young age and she just never stopped; [she's still a wonderful actress today, playing Jennifer Horton Deveraux on DAYS OF OUR LIVES.] She took tap and acting lessons. Her mother was regularly playing the role of the child forcing Cady and Annie to behave as the adults. Cady's father molested her. People in show business did, too. And, they spent her money on themselves which is against the law! At least Cady knew they were spending it instead of letting it be an investment for her future in a special account for it. People who had their parents do that in secret don't find out that the money is gone until it's time for them to tap into it to go to college. Well, that is one example of how it could've been worse, I guess.

When she was 18 she told her agent that she wanted to do a soap. GUIDING LIGHT was an audition that she did not book. [Another child actor, Beth Ehlers got the part of Harley Cooper.] Cady was better and more prepared for the next audition, the part of Dixie on ALL MY CHILDREN. And, she got that one and signed a two-year contract and became an Emmy-winning actress on the show. She was the breadwinner yet again but this time with a steady gig. Her mother reacted to her newfound success by becoming a SHOPPER. Her need for McClain's money knew no limits. Eventually, Cady rented a house in Connecticut for her mother to live in with her visiting instead of living with her mother, while Cady lived in a studio apartment very near the AMC studio in Manhattan.

McClain adored Michael E. Knight and loved the romance between her as Dixie and him as Tad the Cad. She had a terrible experience with an extreme haircut taking her from her long wavy tresses to a super short 'do that made her not recognize herself!

Eventually, she got into therapy after finding a therapist where she could talk and talk and talk, scream and cry, etc. She tried out multiple 12-step programs which all made her feel like she finally fit in somewhere besides just at work. She was drinking too much and misusing alcohol. She had an eating disorder that involved laxatives and enemas to keep her thin. She was the Adult Child of an Alcoholic including having hypervigilance where she was constantly uber-aware of what might be about to happen when the [!@#$%^&*] would regularly hit the fan. She decided she was one quarter alcoholic since her mother had started her drinking tequila at 11 or 12; one quarter ACOA; one quarter food abuser; and one quarter drug abuser (with laxatives as her drug of choice.) She also had a totally screwed up sex life and attitude toward love and attraction. In AA she found many people who like her had been brought up around madness. Cady had trouble with self-esteem since the treatment she had received during most of her life pushed her to think that she didn't deserve any better. And, more than once she thought about suicide.

At 24, with a year and a half left on her contract, she thought about leaving the show even though the only places she felt she truly belonged were at work and at her 12-step meetings. At that point she tried to talk to her mother about her burnout. Her mother's solution was for her to stay with the show and buy her mother a house, Doing that was followed by SHOPPING again and redecorating madly. Of late her mother had been battling cancer. She was hospitalized again and the cancer had progressed throughout most of her body. They took her home. She always had said she was dying and apparently she really was.

At the show Cady was working five days a week. The producer she had turned to thought she was doing her a favor providing her livelihood and some place to fit in and be away from the domestic issues. “Finally. Finally she is going to die and the nightmare will stop. Please, God, please let her die soon. Yes, that is what Cady thought at the time. And, then, Dana did die, with her two daughters on each side of her hospital bed that they had gotten to put into her house.

Cady was only 25 and totally unprepared to face the grief she had. Dana had so totally dominated her life that he dying left a hole, a void instead of presenting the freedom she had longed for and expected. Annie and Cady saw their father and the woman he was married to after a 14 year total absence. The reunion did not go well. Later, when his new wife threw him out, he contacted Cady, apparently out of the blue, and asked her for money. She refused him and cut him out of her life completely. He has since died, too.

The last of her book deals with her trying to define freedom and self-worth. She's made so much progress and she is apparently deliriously happy and fulfilled with her husband [Jon Lindstrom] and their two dogs. She's glad that she wrote the book and doing so helped her on her own continuous journey.

I can highly recommend this book, complete with happy ending, to any fan of Cady's and any fan of memoirs, in general.

Two October 1993 episodes, with commercials.  

https://archive.org/details/vhs-11-days-of-our-lives

Edited June 18, 20223 yr by DRW50

what the ever loving hell is this

 

1 hour ago, te. said:

what the ever loving hell is this

 

$1,500. More info here:

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For whoever was asking about this, we finally know what happened to Anderson Manufacturing.

After Bob died, he left the controlling interest to Chris. The company got involved in the solar generator project which was sabotaged by Alex and Kellam and Jarvis. Kellam was then able to take over the company. When he was killed, Tod took it over. Eventually, Mary made a deal with Tod: if he sold the company to her, she would help him get Jessica, who he was in love with. Mary then ran the company again until she was killed by the Salem Strangler. In her will, she left the company to Phyllis and Melissa. This is where all those mentions of Melissa's shares came from. Phyllis then sold her shares to Tony and Stefano. Yeah, technically they were partners with Melissa 😂 After Stefano's "death", Tony sold the company to Alex. Eventually, Alex lost most of his money to Stefano and sold Anderson to Maxwell Hathaway. When Max died, Megan took it over. Megan eventually sold it to Linda. After all that plotting when she was married to Bob, Linda finally got her hands on Anderson 😂 Melissa, who was estranged from Linda at the point was so angry about this that she secretly sold her shares in Anderson. (Melissa was still a minor and Mickey was still managing it for her, so she forged his signature) And as a result, which such a large block of stock being sold for so cheap, the company went belly up.

Gotta tell ya, I was surprised at how many times the company changed hands before it stopped being mentioned.

1 hour ago, te. said:

what the ever loving hell is this

 

 

4 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

$1,500. More info here:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/days-of-our-lives-hottest-hunks-private-vip-party-august-27-in-la-tickets-334073020397

The tweets about it have been pretty hilarious 😂😂