All My Children Tribute Thread

[ellabelle]

Yeah I mentioned that upthread. Finola Hughes was in that movie too. Susan also starred in a TV movie, Lady Monster, with future AMC actors Michael Nader and Roscoe Born. John O'Hurley, who played Kit Steeling on AMC played her husband in another TV movie, Blood on Her Hands.

[kenerly1]

I miss AMC so much..Watched from day one and you can find clips from the beginning online..Watched one today. Why, oh why did they take this show off the air.

[kenerly1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXwMBKsdPgI

Her is the very first show promo 1970 with Nick and Rosemary Prinze

[amybrickwallace]

Thanks!! That is indeed a wonderful find.

[ellabelle]

Does anyone know if AMC did another Fan Fantasy episode? Or was the episode in 2002 the only one they did?

[amybrickwallace]

I don't think so - at least, I don't remember them doing another one.

[slick jones]

I was just reading an article about AMC and the Zach Grayson murder trial. Does anyone know who appeared as Daisy's lawyer, G Tyson Lassiter and the prosecutor, DA Stanhope?

[danfling]

I know that Marcia McCabe played a district attorney in one or more of the trials on All My Children. Perhaps she was D. A. Stanhope. I checked to see at IMDb, but they did not have her All My Children role listed there.

[slick jones]

I believe McCabe portrayed Leslie Dupre. I caught a glimpse of Daisy's attorney on a Zach Grayson murder channel segment on youtube, but I didn't recognize him.

[John]

Yep McCabe was a lawyer in the 90s

[ellabelle]

Talk to me about Phil Brent. I know his story from the start of AMC up through the end of his marriage to Erica, when he left her to reconcile with Tara. I'm fuzzy on the details after that. Wasn't he hit by a bus or something and killed a few years later? What was his storyline from the time his marriage to Erica ended through his death? I know Tara married someone else at had Kelsey/Kate with him, but I've often wondered why Phil was killed off.

I know the role was recast at least once (as was Tara), so I'm guessing the reason for killing him off extended beyond "the actor wanted out." It did occur to me that by the late 70s/early 80s, Phil's birth mother Amy was gone, his birth father Nick Davis had left town, his adoptive father Ted Brent was dead, and his adoptive mother was remarried to Joe Martin. Still, Ruth was on the canvas, and Phil had little Phillip/Charlie with Tara, he was friends with Chuck (which gave him a connection to the Tylers), and he'd been married to Erica (who then got involved with his birth father before marrying Tom Cudahy), so even though a lot of his family had been killed off, it seems like there were still reasons to keep him around or to at least leave the door open for him to come back later.

[allmc2008]

I do think he could be allive. Wasn' he on a mission or something when he died? If so, witness protection or "on the run" ALA Jessie.

Also, if the show came back, that would be a good way to restart the Erica/Tara/Phil triangle. Hell, while there at it, they could add in Dimitri or David.

[ellabelle]

I don't know - that's why I asked. I think if AMC were to return, Erica/Phil/Tara is long over and gone.

[amybrickwallace]

Did Susan Lucci and Karen Gorney have a lot of scenes together? How did they play off each other? I know that when the show was casting the parts, they had originally auditioned for each other's roles.

[danfling]

I don't think that the actor who was playing Phil (Nicholas Benedict) wished to leave the show. I seem to recall that he was written out. Phil's body was lost at sea, so it would have been possible over the years to have brought him back. If it was to be done by the show, that probably would have been when Tara married Jim Jefferson.

I do not believe that Nick Davis had left town at the time of Phil's death. He remained on the show for a longer period than that.

Tara and Erica had many scenes together. Erica treated (or mistreated) Tara as a new girl in town who was not very high on the social register, as a plain Jane or Pollyanna. She felt that Phil had a right to know his about his parentage, and Erica was the one who told him. And, of course, after Erica and Jeff were married, Erica and Tara were sisters-in-law.

Edited October 28, 2014 by danfling