OLTL Tribute Thread

[j swift]

Can someone fill me in on Estelle Chadwick (as played by Elizabeth Hubbard)?

I know she was an antagonist to Maxie (Christine Ebersole), but I don't recall any details of the story.

Edited October 4, 2022 by j swift

[dragonflies]

 

[Liberty City]

The ensemble. The hair. It's amazing.

[victoria foxton]

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Jamie Sanders Biography.

Edited October 7, 2022 by victoria foxton

[j swift]

And that was just her daytime wardrobe, check out her evening attire

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[Liberty City]

Slay Queen Sorel!

[victoria foxton]

 

  

[DRW50]

It's a shame Paul Rauch treated Robin so poorly because there's a real down-to-earth quality in Robin's performances and in Dorian in these years that I miss later on, when I think Robin felt she really had to prove herself (even moreso after JFP pushed her out).

[Contessa Donatella]

This needs to become a card set! It's a shame Paul Rauch treated __________ so poorly because ____________________  . Then, next card, it's a shame JFP treated __________ so poorly because ______________. The It's A Shame Soap Opera deck. We could have many filled in but include those with blanks for the more secret sleights.

[danfling]

Actress Ann Flood (best remember from The Edge of Night, From These Roots and All My Children) has passed away.   On One Life to Live, she played the mother of Hunter Gutherie and mother-in-law of Andrea Harrison Gutherie (later Vega).

[DRW50]

Michael Callan, who was on briefly in 1985, apparently. 

 

[DRW50]

The first few clips of this have Tommy Lee Jones briefly talking about the changes to his character at OLTL as well as fan response to him.  @vetsoapfan would you agree that they only made his character "bad" right before he left? The summaries I'd read didn't suggest this to me...

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Behind the scenes of Wendy Williams at OLTL:

 

Edited October 24, 2022 by DRW50

[Faulkner]

LOL at the venom in TLJ’s voice when he says the word “soap”…

[vetsoapfan]

Hi @DRW50,

Either TLJ is having false-memory flashbacks, or he's shooting a lot of bull.

Soap opera storyline arcs are written and approved well in advance, and no writer could instantly turn a hero into a villain, generate all the required scripts, and write him out within two weeks.

Mark Toland's descent into ambiguous "villainy" started much earlier than a week or two before TLJ left the series.

He was cheating on his sweet wife, Julie, by early 1973 (two years before being written out), and was responsible for accidentally killing a patient named Rachel Wilson in 1974. When Dorian Cramer  (Mark's affair partner) intended to inform the authorities of how Rachel had actually died (the police at the time suspected Larry Wolek), Mark tried to flee, resulting in Dorian's falling down a flight of stairs and going into a coma. Mark just ran off and left an injured Dorian there, possibly to die. Then in 1975, Mark discovered that Tony Harris was really Victor Lord's son and tried to blackmail the elderly man with the information. Before he could do much damage in that area, however, Mark was shot and killed in early 1975. 

Anyway, all this to say: despite TLJ's peculiar account of how Mark supposedly turned into a villain and was written out pratically overnight, Mark Toland's dastardly behavior began two full years before the character left the show.

[DRW50]

Thanks @vetsoapfan . That's what I thought. I suppose the Victor stuff may have been the final straw, and what he remembered, but it sounds like a great deal built up before that point.