1968 article on soap actors - "Where have I seen them before?"

[DRW50]

February 1967 TV Radio Mirror

[robbwolff]

Fascinating piece of history! I did get a kick out of reading the blurb that Denise Alexander played Alice Horton on Days of our Lives!

[DRW50]

I didn't even catch that. Sometimes they let such crazy things through.

[Paul Raven]

Great article.

However, should that read Feb 66? A Time For Us was long gone by 68.

[DRW50]

This was February 1967. 68 was a typo. Sorry about that.

[danfling]

It mentioned that Don MacLaughlin was in his tenth year on As the World Turns - which premiered in 1956.

[te.]

A Woman To Remember was according to that article the first five-days-a-week tv show?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0327380/combined

Sounds like an interesting show premise and surprisingly "modern" by todays standards.

[DRW50]

February 1967 - that means the article was probably written in late 1966. Or if not, it would still be ten years, as ATWT started in April 1956.

[dc11786]

This was a great article, Carl. Thanks for posting.

I was shocked that Mary K. Wells was on "Edge of Night" in four different roles.

It was nice to read about some of those parts I hadn't heard of. I didn't realize Denise Alexander had been on "General Hospital" prior to playing Leslie.

[DRW50]

I'd read a little about that (Denise) but not much.

A Woman to Remember is one of those shows I wish we could see something, anything of, especially with Constance Ford involved.

[allmc2008]

What's sad is that columns/celebrity news programs outside the soap press is STILL getting soap history wrong!! I wish, for once, when a mainstream celebrity news source like ET reports something about soaps (which is rare, I know) they get everything right.

[dc11786]

You're confusing "A Woman to Remember" with the similarly named "Woman With a Past." "To Remember" was an early (Dumont?) serial about a radio soap opera which featured Mona Bruns. It aired in the late 1940s / early 1950s. It only aired for about four or five months and there was a change in the schedule somewhere. I think it aired as a half hour on Sundays for two months and then nightly around 7 for another two months. I'm sure some one else will remember the details or look it up.

"Past" was the Constance Ford serial about Ford's dress designer character who had a daughter with a criminal and was in love with a married man that ran for about six months in 1954.

[DRW50]

Thanks.

I'd like to see that one too. I think I remember a story about how hot the filming was, and Bruns nearly passed out.