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QUESTION - does anyone know why Opal was recast back in 1989? I feel like "Mama's Family" had wrapped up by then, Dorothy Lyman would have been available... 

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9 minutes ago, Lust4Life76 said:

QUESTION - does anyone know why Opal was recast back in 1989? I feel like "Mama's Family" had wrapped up by then, Dorothy Lyman would have been available... 

Maybe she didnt wanna do the role

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28 minutes ago, Lust4Life76 said:

QUESTION - does anyone know why Opal was recast back in 1989? I feel like "Mama's Family" had wrapped up by then, Dorothy Lyman would have been available... 

Dorothy was still on Mama's Family at the time. I don't think she would have gone back anyway, as I'm not sure she left on the best terms. 

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29 minutes ago, Lust4Life76 said:

QUESTION - does anyone know why Opal was recast back in 1989? I feel like "Mama's Family" had wrapped up by then, Dorothy Lyman would have been available... 

I think this was discussed recently on another thread about 80s news and gossip when Ms Lyman did an interview about taking the role on Generations and there were a few conclusions, (1) she was run ragged from the commute btw NY and LA at the start of series, and AMC had not been accommodating about her schedule, which may have soured the relationship,(2) she had developed an active directing career while working on Mama's Family and got many opportunities behind the scenes elsewhere, and (3) NBC was desperate at the time she was cast on Generations and they offered the kind of money that was not previously discussed on AMC.

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IIRC, ABC didn't even contact Dorothy Lyman about reprising the role.

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22 hours ago, j swift said:

I think this was discussed recently on another thread about 80s news and gossip when Ms Lyman did an interview about taking the role on Generations and there were a few conclusions, (1) she was run ragged from the commute btw NY and LA at the start of series, and AMC had not been accommodating about her schedule, which may have soured the relationship,(2) she had developed an active directing career while working on Mama's Family and got many opportunities behind the scenes elsewhere, and (3) NBC was desperate at the time she was cast on Generations and they offered the kind of money that was not previously discussed on AMC.

Thank you, J, for answering in more detail. I tried to search and find the discussion but couldn't. I been watching "Mama's Family" all last month into this month (now since Betty White passed), and this just sort of crossed my mind. I hadn't started watching "All My Children" regularly until I learned Jill Larson, who was so wickedly fun in her work as Ursula Blackwell on "One Life to Live", was to be cast as Opal. Shortly after I started watching Larson's debut in November, "AMC" was embracing it's 20-year mark, and they showed a brief glimpse of Lyman's work - I always adored her as Naomi Harper, but the more and more I saw of Lyman as Opal, I fell in love with what she did.

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Some unsold pilots burned off by NBC in summer 1984 are being uploaded by one of my favorite Youtube channels, and both have some AMC alum. The first has (for about one or two scenes), Barbara Rush (Nola Orsini), and the second has Rosalind Ingeldew, AKA Rosalind Allen (Silver Kane #1). She's not much of an actress but she is striking, I will give her that. @SFKI always enjoy your comments on the Silver/Noelle era, so you may like to see this.

 

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I liked Deborah Goodrich as (Sterling) Silver, but I think Kelli Maroney (ex-Kimberley, RH) would have been so much better in that role.

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