All My Children Tribute Thread

[KMan101]

Is Brent Weber up to anything lately? Lol

[ellabelle]

Steve - except that Jack and Erica DID stay together temporarily after the custody case ended. She tried to shove him out of her life, but he refused to leave. The "final straw" for that round of Jack and Erica was that Erica fired Ceara from Enchantment, and Jack knew she'd done so mostly because she was jealous of Ceara's prior dating history with Jack. Jack demanded that she re-hire Ceara, saying that Ceara was very qualified for the position, and when Erica wouldn't budge, he threw down an ultimatum and said either Erica re-hire Ceara, or he was done with her. She refused to let him tell her how to run her own company, and he walked out on her and then turned around and sold Ceara HIS 10% stake in Enchantment for $1 or something ridiculous like that.

It was basically Jack being a total jackass to Erica, but once he got involved with Brooke it somehow became twisted and Jack was this "noble" man who stood up for his principles and told the truth on the stand no matter who it hurt, and Erica was the selfish wench who cheated on her husband and expected Jack to lie for her. The writers even had Erica apologizing to Jack for asking him to lie and expecting him to be anything other than a good, decent, honorable man. She claimed to be sincere in her apology, but Brooke was convinced it was all part of a ploy to win Jack back.

[Pine Charles]

Erica wore a gold lamé skirt to Bianca's custody hearing? LOL

She's had other odd courtroom looks... like when she randomly wore that short black wig to a hearing.

Edited January 17, 2013 by Pine Charles

[Pine Charles]

Interesting promo from 1986:

http://youtu.be/MOUPw-gnV8o?t=1m39s

Edited January 17, 2013 by Pine Charles

[Khan]

She had to be prepared in case there were paparazzi waiting outside the courtroom.

[EricMontreal22]

Ha the network actually allowed a promo showing an elderly lady watching their soaps??

[DRW50]

An elderly black woman.

If she was a lesbian, Brian Frons would have flown over from NBC and shut down production immediately.

[Paul Raven]

Paulette Breen was the first Claudette Montgomery,daughter of Margo Flax Martin. Did she have much of a story in her time on the show?

[EricMontreal22]

I'm not sure--but I always wondered why they never connected her last name to Jack's...

[ellabelle]

I wondered about that as well, if she was some relation to Jack and Travis. Not sure why they didn't do that.

[rlj]

Cuz she wasnt related to Jack and Travis!

[SFK]

She was a Montgomery by marriage, so her husband would have had to have been related to Jack and Travis.

[danfling]

Margo Flax was introduced onto the story first. When Erica was seperated from Jeff, Erica moved to New York to begin a modeling career for which she had been craving. Jason Maxwell was the head of the agency, and he began arranging for Erica, an young up-and-coming model, to get a roommate. He told Erica that Margo was an older model with much experience, and that maybe she would accept the idea in order to save money, since the jobs were becoming more scarce for her career.

Margo was a bitter model who was coming to the end of her modeling career. She did not want to have anything to do with Erica, the young newcomer who was coming to New York from a small town. Jason finally persuaded her to share the apartment with Erica. He knew that Margo had a daughter who attended always attended an expensive private school and that Margo was in need of money.

What Erica did not know was that Margo claimed that Jason was the father of Claudette, the daughter. Claudette was begining to see a man from a very exclusive family, and she was anxious for Margo to impress the man's family.

Jason and Erica began a love affair. He cared nothing for her, having had many affairs with these new models just moving to New York. Erica was falling in love with Jason (although she was married to Dr. Jeff Martin).

Claudette became engaged to Spencer Montgomery (who was never seen - only mentioned onscreen. Margo hated Erica, especially since she was aware of the affair with Jason. However, she had to pay for the expensive wedding for Claudette.

Margo had been getting support over the years for Claudette from both Jason and her own ex-husband, Harry Flax.

Eventually, Erica's affair with Jason became known both to Mona and Jeff.

Jason was murdered. Suspects were Erica, Jeff, Margo, and Harry. The show made it appear that Erica had killed Jason. However, Jeff was arrested for the crime.

On the witness stand, it was revealed that Mona Kane had killed Jason as she was trying to get him to leave Erica alone. Mona had forgotten about this and was not sent to prison.

Margo's career was down to nothing after Jason's death. He had been responsible for the few jobs that she had been getting because it helped him not have to pay for Claudette's expenses.

Margo went to Pine Valley. She met Paul Martin, who loved Ann Tyler Davis. Ann had purchased The Boutique. Erica worked there. Ann hired Margo as a saleslady. She and Paul were eventually married.

Claudette, who, up until this time, had also been an off-screen character, came to Pine Valley with the annoucement that she and Spencer Montgomery were divorcing. She lived with Margo and Paul, who were married by this time, but seemed to be making a play for Paul.

Margo was aware of the Claudette's flirtations with Paul, but she was especially jealous of Ann.

The actress who played Margo (Eileen Letchworth) set history when Margo decided to have a facelift without telling anyone. The actress also had a facelift in real life, and the effects of the facelift were all seen onscreen.

Claudette became addicted to drugs. Kitty, who had bought The Boutique (or her new husband Lincoln Tyler had bought it for her) was dismayed when her ex-husband Hal Shea (using the name Hal Short) came to Pine Valley. No one knew about the marriage that Hal and Kitty had once had. He began blackmailing her to help him smuggle drugs into Pine Valley. The drug shipments were disguised as soap shipments coming to The Boutique.

Claudette and Hal became friends.

Claudette was at The Chateau one night and took a drug overdose. Dr. Frank Grant was there to help her. She was sent away to a prison hospital.

This happened on the episode in which All My Children had a new version of the theme song.

Paulette Breen was the actress who played Claudette up until this time. Ms. Breen seemed to have a great career ahead of her, but she made a few episodic roles as a guest star (on Happy Days) and a few movies, the seemed to disappear.

Several years later, Claudette returned to Pine Valley. Susan Plantt Winston was now playing the role. The show had expanded to a full hour.

Claudette was a huge flirt. She worked at either The Chateau with Eddie Dorance. Eddie was the manager of Kelly Cole's career (Kelly and Kitty were twin sisters.) who also managed The Chateu. Also working there were Ellen Tucker Shepherd, Freddie Porcello, and Claudette. Eddie also was keeping Kelly on drugs in order to control her completely.

Claudette had a one-night stand with Phil Brent (who was in between marriages to Erica and Tara.) The actress playing Claudette was expecting a baby in real life.

Eventually, Eddie was murdered. Suspects were Ellen, Freddie, Claudette, Kelly, Phoebe, Brooke (who had been raped by Eddie), and Langley.

Kelly was arrested for the crime, and Lincoln was her attorney.

Eventually, it was revealed that Claudette was the killer. Claudette thought that Lincoln would be able to get an aquital for Kelly. When Lincoln lost the case, she was so guilty that she drove out of town, had a bad car accident, and confessed on the hospital emergency room table. She then died.

Francesca James won the Emmy award for best supporting actress for her role of Kelly, and Warren Burton won the Emmy for his portrayal of Eddie. (Burton was the third actor in the role.)

It was never said that Claudette's husband Spencer was related to Travis and Jack. I thought that the connection would have been good, but it was never made.

[SFK]

Thank you for all that! If anything, they could have made Spencer kin to Travis and Jack.

Never saw Margo, but Letchworth is in an episode of The Cosby Show (the auction episode where Clair buys her uncle's painting.)

[danfling]

Ms. Letchworth and Marie Masters had earlier played mother and daughter on Love of Life, which I never saw.

Her husband played a bartender on The Guiding Light or One Life to Live when Agnes Nixon was writing one of those shows.