All My Children Tribute Thread

[Pine Charles]

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[Pine Charles]

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[John]

I doubt Lauren Holly would return I remember that Nellie Branco said she told him once after ABC canned AMC that the shows had no merit & fans shouldnt be that upset

[ghfan89]

Thanks for the Silver clips and information.

They also tried to put her in a triangle with Jackson and Erica, though that didn't seem to last long or go anywhere. She said goodbye in a Christmas episode where she went off to work at some law firm.

[amybrickwallace]

Here is Tasia Valenza (Dottie Thornton) in an all-star teen edition of Family Feud from 1984 (also featuring Tim Gibbs of OLTL, AW and SB fame):

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[SFK]

I thought the Noelle/Silver stuff was pretty fascinating at the time, but I agree that the character was nowhere as charismatic as Connie Wilkes.

[DRW50]

It was a very different type of character.

The stuff where she lied about being raped and was trying to make Natalie paranoid about being raped again was chilling to watch, although it really was too heavy for the overall tone of AMC, even if that was ultimately a very heavy year for AMC, period.

[ghfan89]

Speaking of Silver, does anyone know why Rosalind Allen was replaced with Claire Beckman? Was it the actresses choice to leave, or did the writers want to go a new direction with the character? I have the same question for Antoinette Byron as Skye.

[amybrickwallace]

Was it Frannie or Sabrina that Claire Beckman played on ATWT?

[John]

Claire placed Sabrina from 1990-92 and then temp Jenna on GL in 1994

Edited December 14, 2014 by John

[amybrickwallace]

Thank you. I guess she temped on GL when Fiona was on maternity leave?

[cassadine1991]

I'm surprised Silver didn't have any children of her own

[Steve]

I really wish D&D had respected AMC's history and brought back Ross instead of creating Caleb and made Erica's lookalike Jane either Connie, Julie or Silver's unknown daughter instead of some random woman who idolized Erica.

[allmc2008]

Those are really great ideas, actually!

[SFK]

Years ago, I wrote a treatment for an AMC/The City crossover s/l with a young man financially provided for by Sydney Chase who was the son of her chauffeur Samuel and Silver Kane. I later had an idea for the boy and his grandmother, Goldie, coming Pine Valley to stir the pot and settle some old scores, and Goldie and Vanessa Bennett would have had a comical snarky frenemy relationship going back to their days in Hollywood being two-timed by Eric. ANYway...

I wonder if the show was too invested in doing *big!* stories for Erica to ever concern themselves with bringing on a bunch of relatives for her. Of course she had domestic type drama with her parents and siblings, but it wasn't until her girls were grown that you saw Erica truly sharing the spotlight/playing support in family storylines.