1 hour ago, danfling said:

I was shocked to see the name of Marie Masters as a bad recast as Susan Burke Stewart Baxter, R. N. on As the World Turns.   I thought that she was one of the best actresses on the soap operas and that her portrayal as Susan was probably better than any of the other actresses who had played the role!

THIS^^^

 

Even Kim Stewart Hughes begrudgingly agrees, and she hated the bitch, Kiddo!

On 11/25/2022 at 12:28 AM, j swift said:

I was watching the YouTube clip about the history of Morgan Richards on GL and that recast was rough.  Kirsten Vigard played Morgan the first year or so, up until the wedding to Kelly, and then Jennifer Cook played the part for the next two years.  There were stories in the press that Vigard had troubles backstage both in terms of learning her lines and getting along with her co-star which were repeated when she was later cast on OLTL.

Gossip aside, looking at the clips today there are several reasons that the recast seemed misguided.  First, Ms. Cook looks 5-7 years older than Vigard, which I would assume was due to the fact that she started when the character was married (I think the transition between actresses happens while Morgan and Kelly are on their honeymoon) and they wanted to reduce the appearance of an age difference between Morgan and Kelly now that they were being given more love scenes.  Second, Ms. Cook lacks the ingenue-like charm of Ms Vigard, her Morgan is much less innocent or guileless which ruins the interplay with Nola.  When Kristen played Morgan, Nola was easily able to pull the wool over her eyes, but Cook's Morgan was less naive.   Lastly, Vigard has an excellent singing voice, she sang one of my favorite songs God Give Me Strength from the movie Grace of My Heart.  I don't know if Ms Cook could sing, but suddenly Morgan and Kelly were not serenading each other anymore as they did during their courtship.

That being said, I'm happy OLTL didn't follow though on having her play a Tina recast, talk about being cast against type.  And, of course, in the merry-go-round of soap casting Liz Keiffer later went over to GL.

What’s funny is, Cooke is younger than Vigard. 
 

Unfortunate recasting, but what choice did they have?  Vigard couldn’t get her act together and Cooke was gorgeous and appealing. It was odd that Vigard did the wedding and Cooke did the honeymoon, but…

 

Besides, John Wesley Shipp twirling Jennifer Cooke around the dance floor at Wired For Sound during the Disco Theme is pure bliss to me. 
 

I followed Cooke to prime time on V and A YEAR IN THE LIFE. I really liked her. Remember she was actually dating Robert Newnan (Josh) IRL. Later she quit acting and married the owner of Celestial Teas and wrote a “cooking with tea” cookbook. 

Not liking someone (a performer) does not meant that the performer is a poor recast.

I was going to ask you before you replied, just which actress who had played Dr. Susan Burke Stewart before Marie Masters was recast in the role is it that you preferred in the role?

3 hours ago, antmunoz said:

she was actually dating Robert Newnan (Josh) IRL. Later she quit acting and married the owner of Celestial Teas and wrote a “cooking with tea” cookbook. 

I appreciate when people remember this amount of detail about a performer.  Also, I would never have imagined she was younger than Kristen, although she looked less mature for her part as the half alien in V.

You inspired a bit of google deep dive and I came up with an article that summed up the changes in the character after the recast.

Edited November 27, 20223 yr by j swift

Didn't Ms. Cooke produce a television special starring singer Amy Grant?    I think that it was a Christmas special.

Is Linsey Godfrey As Sarah Horton A Recast??? I read about Sarah's Conception in 1981 via Artificial Insemination, and found it interesting and surprisingly Ahead of it's time, But Godfrey is 7 years younger than that, and only came on 2018, Did Sarah ever been played by another "Adult" Actress? By the 1970's Standards DOOL Was The SORAS champion way worse than B&B, but I wonder about the 1980's/90's

The only actress in the role of "Aunt" Liz Matthews that I saw was the late Irene Daily.

However, I know that she was a great recast.   She certainly seemed to please Harding Lemay in the role.

 

(The other actresses who had played the role were Sarah Cunningham, Nancy Wickwire and Audra Lindley.)

In my opinion, actor James O'Sullivan was the best to play Dr. Jeff Martin on All My Children.

Maybe I was too young but I actually enjoyed and loved Grayson McCouch as Dusty Donovan on Atwt. I don’t get the hate he got  

Grayson was one of the better actors at daytime back then and I loved with so much between 2005-2008

12 hours ago, AMCOLTLLover said:

Maybe I was too young but I actually enjoyed and loved Grayson McCouch as Dusty Donovan on Atwt. I don’t get the hate he got  

Grayson was one of the better actors at daytime back then and I loved with so much between 2005-2008

I don't think it was so much Grayson as it was that his Dusty was an entirely different character from Brian Bloom's Dusty.