This perfomer would have been good in that role

[Liberty City]

• Tamara Braun (Ava, DAYS et al) as Victoria Newman (Y&R)
• Sarah Joy Brown (ex-Madison, DAYS et al) as Jennifer Foster (Y&R)
• Sean Carrigan (ex-Stitch, Y&R) as Eric Brady (DAYS)
• Alex Chando (ex-Maddie, ATWT) as Stephanie Johnson (DAYS)
• William deVry (ex-Julian, GH et al) as Peter Blake (DAYS) / Matt Miller (Y&R)
• Isabel Durant (ex-Claire, DAYS) as Serena Baldwin (GH)
• Meghann Fahy (ex-Hannah, OLTL) as Summer Newman (Y&R)
• Renée Elise Goldsberry (ex-Evangeline, OLTL) as Keesha Ward (GH)
• Shannon Kane (ex-Natalia, AMC) as Maya Ward (GH)
• Victoria Konefal (Ciara, DAYS) as Eden Baldwin (Y&R)
• Mark Lawson (ex-Dustin, GH et al) as Chance Chancellor (Y&R)
• Bethany Joy Lenz (ex-Michelle, GL et al) as Sarah Webber (GH)
• Cady McClain (ex-Rosanna, ATWT et al) as Harley Cooper (GH)
• Judith McConnell (ex-Sophia, SB) as Beth Logan (B&B)
• Karla Mosley (ex-Amanda, Y&R) as Maya Ward (GH)
• Robert Newman (ex-Josh, GL et al) as Jeff Webber (GH)
• Nathan Owens (ex-Cameron, DAYS) as Tommy Hardy (GH)
• Jon Prescott (ex-Mike, ATWT) as Lucky Spencer (GH)
• Gina Tognoni (ex-Dinah, GL et al) as Skye Quartermaine (GH)
• Justin Torkildsen (ex-Rick, B&B) as Eric Brady (DAYS) / Lucky Spencer (GH)
• Mark Valley (ex-Jack, DAYS) as Mike Horton (DAYS)
• Robert Palmer Watkins (ex-Dillon, GH) as Kyle Abbott (Y&R)
• Jacob Young (ex-JR, AMC et al) as Eric Brady (DAYS) / Andrew Donovan (DAYS) / Philip Kiriakis (DAYS)
• Colleen Zenk (ex-Barbara, OLTL) as Anjelica Deveraux (DAYS) / Tracy Quartermaine (GH)
• Kim Zimmer (ex-Reva, GL et al) as Genevieve Atkinson (Y&R)

[Franko]

PASSIONS actually had a Gladys Kravitz type. Ruth Buzzi played "Nurse Kravitz" for a bit after Endora was born. (You could also make an argument for Reese in the early years, but I'm getting off topic.)

[danfling]

I had known that Ms. Zink was on One Life to Live?    I do not remember her role.

[Frank2803]

It would have been interesting to see Matt Borlenghi in the Valentine Cassadine role when they were initially going to bring the character on the canvas 

Edited September 5, 2021 by Frank2803

[Joseph]

Poor Amelia Heinle nobody likes her (me neither there's been a while since I stopped caring for Vicky) but I guess it's with the writers too she came into the role and Vicky stopped being a Thunderstorm to be a simple Rain, I like her with Billy but then it was long ago.

By the way i think Lara Parker would have been a Nice Iris Wheeler, she could play menacing vulnerable and crazy very well, or Alice for a sweet change, and funny enough I think that Diana Millay MIGHT have been a good Sue Ellen Ewing, when Laura the Phoenix was introduced as an struggling ex alcoholic she was pretty believable in the role (but that doesn't mean I don't love Linda Gray in the role).

[Frank2803]

I remember Michael Zaslow saying that TPTB wanted to recast him as Alan Spaulding for his initial return 

The idea was nixed, but it would have been interesting to see his take on the role 

[Joseph]

I also heard Brenda Dickson was considered to play Dorian Lord when Robin left the role 

Edited September 7, 2021 by Joseph

[danfling]

I agree that Lara Parker (Dark Shadows) would probably been a good Iris on Another World.

I also think that she would have been a good replacement for Eileen Fulton as Lisa on As the World Turns.

[Frank2803]

That would have been awesome 

 

Edited September 7, 2021 by Frank2803

[Joseph]

I know unhappily her blacklisting turned that impossible she was great at playing powerful, manipulative women

[Frank2803]

Why was she blacklisted?

[Spoon]

TPTB at Y&R hated her, saw her as too "difficult."

[Frank2803]

I always thought Lane Davies would have made a great Craig Montgomery 

[danfling]

I think that Trisha Pursley-Hawkins (or, as she was usually billed, Trisha Pursley) would have been a good Jill Grant Farmer on Somerset (the role played by Susan MacDonald).   Furthermore, she would have been good in the role of Jinx Avery Mallory on The Edge of Night (another role assumed by Ms. MacDonald upon the departure of the actress who had created the role).

 

Another actress who I think would have been good in another role is this (and I would welcome comments agreeing or disagreeing):

Kristen Meadows (Mimi King on One Life to Live) as Dr. Faith Coleridge on Ryan's Hope.

[Joseph]

Probably better than most recasts, I was watching some 1983 ATWT and that Betsy didn't work at all

There's also her version of her affair with Bell turning sour and ruining her career 

By the way I think Alicia Minshew might have been a nice Victoria Newman, would be nice seeing the character being multilayered again, Amelia never got a chance she came in, Bell went up so no proper tutoring