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JASON47'S FROM THE VAULT: "WHO'S WHO IN DAYTIME TV" (1975)...
Click here to see the 1975 edition of Who's Who in Daytime TV:
JASON47's FROM THE VAULT: WHO'S WHO IN DAYTIME TV (1976)...
Also features a nice color photo of Edward Mallory and a look back at the early years of Fran Myers (the long-time "Days" writer and current script editor), back when she was an actress.
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JASON47'S FROM THE VAULT: THE "DAYS OF OUR LIVES" PROPOSAL...ALICE HORTON
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Pictured above: The three faces of Alice Horton...Mary K. Wells, who turned down the role since she was based on the East Coast; Mary Jackson, who played Alice in the first pilot, and Frances Reid, who became the only Alice "Days" fans ever knew.
Here's how Alice Horton was described in Ted Corday's proposal for "Days of Our Lives"...
Tom's wife, ALICE, is still a strikingly handsome woman. It is easy to believe that she turned down the offers of more than one wealthy young man in order to marry Tom.
Alice had the normal American girl's dreams of comfort and affluence when she married Tom Horton. Even then, as a young ball player, he was making more money than the average family doctor. Alice understood that the time and the earnings Tom invested in his medical studies were both investments in the family's future.
The Horton family never missed a meal, or a mortgage payment. Neither did they ever move out of the rambling frame house the young ball player-medical student bought for his bride. The Horton family has never been able to afford the luxuries enjoyed by the wives and children of most of the other doctors Alice knew.
At first, Tom's lack of 'practical' values was the cause of great distress to Alice. She resented his failure to 'get ahead' - but, being Alice, she kept these resentments to herself. Later, as her children began to grow up, and some of them began to complain that other doctors' children had more good things than they had, Alice found herself defending Tom with all her heart and soul.
In her own mind, Tom had become a noble, visionary creature to whom science and academic honors would always mean more than money. She loved and respected him for it - but she was not about to let any of her children grow up to be as 'impractical' as their wonderful father. She was going to give her children 'firmer goals' in life, 'stronger values.'
'Values' mean different things for Tom and Alice. To Tom, values are things moral, spiritual, and intellectual; one exists to give of oneself to life and to all people, strangers and brothers, who share this life. To Alice, values are tangibles measured by the yardsticks of the marker place: life consists of taking all that life and other people can be forced to yield. However, she is not a taker for her own sake: for herself, she is quite content, but for her family she wants money, prestige, comfort, security. Alice would be truly astounded if she ever found out that, deep down, she and Tom want the same things.
Above all things, Alice wants her children to be 'practical.' Tom has never learned how to be 'practical,' and Alice rarely tries to 'keep his feet on the ground' as she used to when they were first married. Tom is forever bringing home impractical and wildly extravagant gifts for his wife and his children and his grandchildren. The fact is, as their daughter MARIE once observed - that, in proportion to his income, Tom has probably spent more money buying gifts for his wife than any doctor in Salem City. Alice kicks up a fuss with each such display of Tom's extravagance - but she is also frank to admit that she would miss them if Tom 'reformed.'
Now, in the third decade of their marriage, Alice is Tom's most ardent defender - against the world beyond the family circle. She feels he is entitled to far more honors, respect, and fame than he has yet received - and, in her own way, she does what she can to make the world look up to her husband,
On their 30th wedding anniversary, one of their children proposed a toast that summed up the story of their lives together. It ran: "Here's to the marriage that never was supposed to happen, never supposed to last, never supposed to bring a moment of happiness to either of its partners - and this child of that marriage will go to his grave swearing that never has there been a happier marriage in the whole cockeyed history of matrimony."
The Hortons have brought five children into the world...
(Coming soon, find out the first descriptions of the Horton kids!)
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Looks like extra characters got added to the links when I posted them here. Don't know why. I'll go correct the links now, so they should be working fine.

Irna Phillips and Allan Chase worked with Ted to come up with the ideas for Days, so I'm sure some of this is probably direct from Irna. It's Ted who wrote out the proposal when pitching the series.

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Cindy Daly was Cathy Breton.

Elizabeth Harrower introduced her as an orphaned student nurse who was being set up to be Alex and Marie's daughter. Then Nina Laemmle became headwriter and Cindy was dropped in favor of Jessica, who was setup as Alex and Marie's daughter.

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