Loved that bio, back when A&E had some worthwhile programming. --from when Culliton was briefly writing it. I actually bought the episode on DVD from Amazon some years back, cuz I'm a geek.

Edited September 27, 201114 yr by EricMontreal22

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXloC-qVuC4

Loved that bio, back when A&E had some worthwhile programming. --from when Culliton was briefly writing it. I actually bought the episode on DVD from Amazon some years back, cuz I'm a geek.

Yeah I just uploaded it to YouTube it took me 2 months to find that damn DVD lol waiting for part 3 to finish processing

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

September 1973 TV Radio Talk

love two people are, it takes an awfully long time to adjust to each other. For Alma and I it was especially rough because she quit college and went to work to support us while I was going to work to support us while I was going for my M.A. in theater at New York University, but we stuck it out and now things just get better and better."

Charlie is proud to add that he's finally paying the bills, which allows Alma to return to school - Columbia University -where she is working toward her B.A. in French. "Alma plans to go until she earns her Ph.D. in French and then she'll probably teach. I'm all for having a working wife. Of course, I do believe in sharing the responsibilities of the home, so it shouldn't be any problem. With Alma in school, I've gotten plenty of experience in that area. When she has exams, I'm the one who cleans the apartment and prepares dinner and I don't mind it one bit. I think it's very narrow-minded of a man to expect his wife to do all the household chores, certainly if she's also holding down a job."

Charlie and Alma met while both were students at Middlebury College in Vermont. It was not love at first sight. He was going with someone else at the time, knew Alma only casually but well enough to notice "she looked like the conscientious type," and so asked her to be stage manager of a school play he was directing. It wasn't until Charlie's romance came to an end that her other fine attributes caught his attention. To this day, Charlie dissolves into laughter whenever he thinks about the unauspicious beginning of his relationship with Alma.

"The play was a flop, the scenery fell down during the performance, and when it was all over I immediately departed with my girl friend, leaving poor Alma there to reflect on how awful things went. But when my girl friend and I broke up after one of our countless rousing fights, it suddenly dawned on me that this Alma was some beautiful girl and I'd better ask her out before somebody else got to her. Ten months later we were married.

Charlie considers himself mighty lucky to have found a beautiful, intelligent and understanding girl, but Lady Luck has always had a way of keeping an eye on him. For starters, he was born into "an upper middle class" family and remembers his youth as "idyllic." Says Charlie, "I was spoiled rotten and loved every second of it. We lived in a beautiful waterfront home in the state of Washington. I have the most incredible memories of fun-times spent with my family water skiing and sailing during the summer." The Frank family is composed of Charlie's folks, Carl, retired insurance company executive; his mother Julia, a choir director and head of a home for unwed mothers; brother Jeff, 31, a career Air Force man, and sister Sally 29, a housewife and mother.

During the rest of the year Charles attended prep school, where he earned top grades, played football and continued to lead what can only be described as a happy and normal, if a bit more privileged than average, life. He also dabbled in school plays and discovered he loved to act but when he entered college he signed on as a pre-med major. At that point, a cloud briefly descended over his life - freshman biology. "I just couldn't cut it," Charlie remembers. "I realized medicine wasn't for me and switched my major to theater. I never really knew what I wanted to do with my life and chose medicine mainly because it seemed such a secure profession. When I came to the conclusion medicine wasn't for me, I also realized that acting wasn't always the field that had intrigued me the most and had given me the most satisfaction. I must say my parents were great when I announced my intention to become an actor. They pointed out the pros and cons, and admitted they were worried about the insecurity of the business, but they never tried to discourage me."

Nor did Charlie ever doubt he'd made the right decision. Actually, the lucky guy never had time to doubt it. Translated, that means he's never been out of work, an experience which almost never fails to make an actor question the wisdom of his decision to become an actor.

While still at N.Y.U. Charlie took his handsome face up to some advertising agencies and soon found himself much in demand for TV commercials.Then, just as he was about to begin his third and last year working toward his M.A., he was offered role s in three daytime serials, As the World Turns, Where the Heart Is, and All My Children, in the space of one week. He never went back to school. Alma did instead and Charlie went to work.

"I chose the part on All My Children because it was the most challenging and also because I thought the show's writing was superior to the others." Charlie jokingly adds, "Another reason I decided to play Jeff Martin was so my parents would finally be able to point at me and say, 'My son, the doctor.'"

What does the future hold for Charlie? Probably many more good things. He'd like to continue working on All My Children, while also doing some juicy roles in films and plays, start a family, and, hopefully, one day be able to afford a place in the country. At the moment he and Alma, along with pooches Portia and High C and a cat named Cous Cous, make their home in a cozy, sprawling apartment in a lovely old building on Manhattan's Upper West Side. A self-proclaimed "country boy t at heart," Charlie considers this arrangement a temporary one. "Alma and I love taking advantage of the infinite variety of things New York City has to offer - we go to movies and the theater a lot and enjoy bicycling and playing tennis in Riverside Park - but we both would prefer living in the country.

Sadly, a desire to return to more bucolic surroundings only partially explains the Franks' preference. "I really can't handle the rising crime rate here," says Charlie. "Thankfully, Alma's never had any trouble, but I've already had two bad incidents. Two summers ago I was almost shot by a guy who had robbed a girl on the street. I was in my apartment when I heard this girl screaming outside. I grabbed a club I keep at home for just such emergencies, and ran out to help just in time to catch him and give him a rap on the head. Of course, if I knew he had a gun I would never have been so brazen. When he pulled it on me after I hit him, I ducked behind a car and he got away. The other incident was when some kid swiped my bike. I combed the neighborhood looking for it, then just as I was about to give up I see this kid go whizzing by on my bicycle right on my block. I couldn't believe he had the nerve to steal it and then appear back at the scene of the crime. Wow, I was so mad I grabbed the kid and beat the hell out of him. When those things happen, how can oyou not want to get out of here?"

As if being handsome, intelligent, talented and personable were not enough attributes for one man to possess, Charlie, it turns out, is something of a hero. Eat your hearts out, girls. Either that, or simply force yourselves to be content watching him on All My Children.

By Linda Rosenbaum

Gee, I hope the divorce didn't derail Alma's plans.

Here's the final Kane and extended family photo

Here's the final Kane and extended family photo

Snatchalie part Deux™ does not belong in this photo.

I can't stand the way the Carey Whores have infiltrated the Chandlers and now the Kane's? I would be indignant about them infiltrating the Martins, too, but... who am I kidding? That clan of criminal hypocrites is a perfect match for them.

Snatchalie part Deux™ is a trademark insult created by Clear Drama

Poor Mark - look, there was even a space for him beside Marissa.

Cheryl Tiegs guest starred in the midst of the Erica/Silver story

Is it just me or does the woman on the right resemble Sarah Michelle Gellar?

Cheryl Tiegs guest starred in the midst of the Erica/Silver story

LOVES it!

That whole Erica/Faux-Silver story was so good.

That was the episode where Erica was furious because Cheryl beat her out for model of the year, right?

Whatever happened to the disco?

Michael Jackson... He burned that disco out.

Edited September 28, 201114 yr by R Sinclair

Didn't someone connected to drugs open a rival disco? By the time the soaps all had their disco stories (ie very late 1979--but more early 80s) disco was pretty much passe anyway...