A World Apart

[Gray Bunny]

Wow, Susan Sarandon playing a 17-year-old? She looks older than that. Definitely more mature looking than the lil teenyboppers we see onscreen today.

[DRW50]

She looks younger in some other photos but she definitely doesn't look 17. Of course it's a better fit than a lot of what soaps started doing in the early 90's, where 30 year olds were passed off as teens.

One of those old soap magazines was at a goodbye party thrown for A World Apart and they mentioned that Augusta Dabney had told them Susan was going to be a big star, and they said Augusta was never wrong in these predictions. I guess she wasn't!

Edited July 22, 2011 by CarlD2

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September 1971 All Day TV.

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Edited September 17, 2011 by CarlD2

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Daytime TV Yearbook #1

[Paul Raven]

Variety January 1971

The husband and wife team of Dick and Suzanne Holland, late of ABC* "All My Children," have been signed as the new headwriters of "Apart."

So,Irna and her daughter Katherine lasted a year. I wonder whether they chose to leave or ABC had the power to push them out?

[Susan Hunter]

Paul Raven, on saynotoursoap's youtube channel he has a promo for 'A World Apart' with some actress talking about the new 'faster-paced and provocative' stories. So based on that promo, I get the impression that they were probably forced out.

[danfling]

I remember that promo. I know that it ran during the final episode of Dark Shadows. The actress was the late Kathleen Maguire, who was appearing on the show as the wife of James Noble. She had earlier been on A Flame in the Wind/A Time for Us, and she succeeded Doris Belack in the role of Anna Woleck Craig on One LIfe to Live later in the 1970s. She was one of my favorite soap opera actresses! She also appeared in one of the Flipper movies with Robin Matson.

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Rise Stevens, whose son was on A World Apart, has died.

Her son was Nicholas Surovy (who later played Mike Roy #1 on All My Children).

Ms. Stevens was a great operatic singer.

[DRW50]

Sorry to hear this. I had no idea she was still alive. She made some movies with Nelson Eddy.

[danfling]

She was ninety-nine years old at the time of her death a few days ago.

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TV by Day Annual 1971

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Anna Minot was the wife of actor Joseph Warren, who played Larry Colby (father of Liza and first husband of Marion) of All My Children.

John Devlin later played Jason Maxwell on All My Children.

Erin Connor was the step-daughter of the late Haila Stoddard (The Secret Storm). Ms.Stoddard was ALMOST hired as a replacement for Ruth Warrick as Phoebe on All My Children.