Name Changes

[antmunoz]

Daisy Cooper Lewis was adopted as Susan Lemay on GL. She was Daisy Lemay at show' send.

[Paul Raven]

When Gloria Monty was outlining her plans for GH on her return, she mentioned Harlan Barrett and his two daughters Justine and Kelly, who onscreen became Julia and Brenda,

[SFK]

I want to know why they changed Yolanda's name. I mean, I know the bullshit storyline reason, but did they think Yolanda was "too black" to hear every day?

[All My Shadows]

On AMC, Hannah Nichols was originally referred to as Lindsay and I believe she was meant to be Aidan's mother as well as Ethan's.

[Bright Eyes]

DAYS: Tommy Horton was originally referred to as Dan Horton.

[cassadine1991]

As in she was supposed to be Lindsay Devane?

[LeClerc]

On AMC everyone called Juan Pablo...Juan Pablo. Then one day the "Juan" was suddenly dropped and everyone called him just "Pablo", as if everyone in Pine Valley had gotten a memo in their email about the change.

There must have been some legal issue with the name or focus groups has a major issue with it for some reason.

[Mona Kane Croft]

On Another World, Phillip Lyons was referred to on-screen as Philippe Lyonnes (with a French inflection). He was said to be Cecile's former fiancé from France. But when the character appeared, he was known as Phillip Lyons -- an American who had been living in France. I always assumed TPTB didn't want to ask Robert Gentry to use a French accent day after day, so they simply changed his history and made him American.

[All My Shadows]

Not so much that Stacy Haiduk's character was supposed to be Lindsay Devane, but several years before she appeared, it was implied that they were the same person.

[slick jones]

Gillian McCandless was originally named Karen on Capitol.

[MissLlanviewPA]

I don't know if this counts or not, but on OLTL, Blair Daimler became Blair Cramer. You can honestly separate it by saying Mia played Blair Daimler and Kassie played Blair Cramer (although technically her Blair was still using Daimler as a last name in the beginning). When did the change actually occur onscreen?

[slick jones]

Anita Hodges was referred to as Jane before she appeared onscreen on Young and the Restless.

[SFK]

I remember reading about it in SOD before it happened onscreen. It was the show's effort to more clearly bond her to Dorian, et al, it was months into Kassie's run IIRC. Definitely before all of the Cramer Women/Melador stuff started up.

[Paul Raven]

Jerry Lacey's character of Jonas on Y&R was originally Rick in the scripts but Jerry,trying to get away from his association with Humphrey Bogart's character of Rick in Casablanca requested it be changed.