3 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

My favorites in this order:

1. HBS

2. Margaret Colin

3. Ellen Dolan

4. The purse lady

She never felt like Margo to me. She was miscast from the start. I do wonder who else they had in mind when HBS left.

Wasn't Nancy Lee Grahn considered for the Margo part?  

5 hours ago, Elsa said:

Wasn't Nancy Lee Grahn considered for the Margo part?  

10 hours ago, Elsa said:

Wasn't Nancy Lee Grahn considered for the Margo part?  

Yes but Ellen Dolan returned

10 hours ago, Elsa said:

Wasn't Nancy Lee Grahn considered for the Margo part?  

I thought Sharon Gabet was.

Ms. Gabet would have been good in the role.

 

15 hours ago, danfling said:

Ms. Gabet would have been good in the role.

 

Hmm. as Margo...interesting. I never bought Dolan, who I liked a Maureen, as Margo.  I wished they had brought Gabet on to GL when they cast Malloy...what fun it would have been to see Reva and Raven going at it...and would have saved us from boring Maeve.

On 11/15/2021 at 2:50 PM, amybrickwallace said:

I thought Sharon Gabet was.

I heard Sharon almost subbed for Collen Zenk as Barbara

Denise Alexander had been one of the main stars of DAYS, but after she left, Bennye Gettys was a reasonably good replacement Susan, better than any of the replacement Lauras turned out to be.

On 4/23/2019 at 9:56 PM, j swift said:

According to Soap Central, it was an even dozen

Morgan K. Melis (1976 to 1982), Chris Cunningham (1982), Jonathan Brandis (1982), Ryan Janis (1983 to 1990), Matthew Vipond (1990), Joey Thrower (1990 to 1992), Kirk Geiger (1992 to October 17, 1994), Jack Armstrong (1994 to 1995), Ken Kenitzer (1995), Kevin Stapleton (January 1996 to April 1998), Timothy Gibbs (April 1998 to March 2001), and Dan Gauthier (June 27, 2003 to November 2010)

 

Unless you consider the genetic likelihood of fraternal twins where one is blonde and one is ginger, but given their nontraditional gestation and insemination, I'll let them get away it 

Fraternal twins can have different hair and skin coloring.  My mom's cousins were fraternal twins where one was a tall brunette with brown eyes and the other was a short blond with blue eyes.  It happens.

On 10/31/2021 at 8:39 AM, Xanthe said:

Since obviously AW struggled to recast Alice with someone suitable with the constraints they were working with at the time, as a thought experiment, assuming that time and space and money are not constrained, is there any actress past or present, living or dead, big screen, small screen, or stage, who would have been close to an ideal Alice? (Assume that she is willing to bleach her hair, and if that is not sufficient, go to any lengths to change anything about her physical appearance, in order to perform the role.)

This is gonna seem like a MAJOR reach, but...Morgan Fairchild (ex-Jennifer, SFT; ex-Sydney, THE CITY).

I realize Alice was created before Rachel.  However, you have to remember that Agnes Nixon positioned "good" Alice as a counterpoint to "bad" Rachel -- a dichotomy that was rendered nonexistent once Harding Lemay (and Victoria Wyndham) evolved Rachel into a more heroine-like character.  So, if I had been Lemay, or Paul Rauch, I would have "flipped the script," so to speak, and had Alice become the vixen, and the woman who (perhaps, angered that her onetime rival has finally gotten everything she's ever wanted, while she has had to suffer losing both her mother and the absolute love of her life) is determined never to be the "loser" again.

Edited December 13, 20213 yr by Khan

On 12/12/2021 at 7:02 PM, Khan said:

This is gonna seem like a MAJOR reach, but...Morgan Fairchild (ex-Jennifer, SFT; ex-Sydney, THE CITY).

I realize Alice was created before Rachel.  However, you have to remember that Agnes Nixon positioned "good" Alice as a counterpoint to "bad" Rachel -- a dichotomy that was rendered nonexistent once Harding Lemay (and Victoria Wyndham) evolved Rachel into a more heroine-like character.  So, if I had been Lemay, or Paul Rauch, I would have "flipped the script," so to speak, and had Alice become the vixen, and the woman who (perhaps, angered that her onetime rival has finally gotten everything she's ever wanted, while she has had to suffer losing both her mother and the absolute love of her life) is determined never to be the "loser" again.

Replied in the AW thread. 

On 11/18/2021 at 1:29 PM, John said:

I heard Sharon almost subbed for Collen Zenk as Barbara

That's true, in case CZ suddenly went into labor.

Sharon Gabet as Barbara (even a temp Barbara) would have been awesome.

Also, I wish P&G had lured Julia Barr (ex-Brooke) away from AMC to play a Dee recast.  That would have awesome as well.

Edited December 16, 20213 yr by Khan

15 hours ago, Khan said:

Sharon Gabet as Barbara (even a temp Barbara) would have been awesome.

Agreed. It would have been awesome had that temp recast happened.

Judith Barcroft was the third actress to play Ann Tyler on All My Children, but following her was a hard job for any actress.   I thought that Gwen Gilliss (possibly misspelled) was an excellent choice to play Ann #4.