16 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

This just breaks my heart. I loved Iva - one of my favorite soap characters ever. As a kid, something in me connected with her immediately. She suffered and suffered and suffered, which could have been very maudlin, but  Lisa rarely played the material in a melodramatic way. She connected with the pain of Iva and never let viewers forget what Iva had gone through, even when it might have been easier to do so. She was at her best in the quiet, sorrowful conversations with her family, or when she found out about Ellie and Kirk. As time passed, the sorrow seemed to completely consume  Iva, but I never stopped wanting the character to have everything she had dreamed of and which was never in her grasp.  I never forgot Lisa's presence on ATWT, even after Iva was written out and barely mentioned, and I never will. 

Lisa was born in the wrong era - she would have been right at home in the "queens of the lot" era of the '30s and '40s. That's why she was so at home in the old Hollywood homages Nola went through,  especially the Bette  Davis  moments Davis herself wrote her a fan letter in praise of. 

Even if  the filming was shambolic in that final year,  I'm glad Lisa was  willing to return as Nola for the finale, and give fans a chance to say goodbye.

The main moment going around for Lisa seems to be Lily's paternity reveal, which, to be honest, I did not care for as a scene, so I will post this instead: 

 

Lovely tribute. She just shines as Nola. So multitalented. 

That whole Game Over episode was (used to be?) on YouTube. I wish I could find it. The Nola and Kelly stuff is worth the price of admission, but there's also the moment when Bea and Tony have had it with Nola and at the very end, the unsinkable Miss R. starts plotting her comeback.

Lisa Brown is trending at #2.

RIP Lisa

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9 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

Lisa Brown submitted the Lily reveal in 1988...

1987 is on YouTube but the scenes have been removed by whoever posted the video.

 

Thank you. This is what I wanted to know.

Daytime Academy voting members don't seem to take to nuance and subtlety. It's why Kathryn Hays never got won or got a nomination. Soap voters favor the sturm und drang more than anything else.

8 hours ago, DRW50 said:

This just breaks my heart. I loved Iva - one of my favorite soap characters ever. As a kid, something in me connected with her immediately. She suffered and suffered and suffered, which could have been very maudlin, but  Lisa rarely played the material in a melodramatic way. She connected with the pain of Iva and never let viewers forget what Iva had gone through, even when it might have been easier to do so. She was at her best in the quiet, sorrowful conversations with her family, or when she found out about Ellie and Kirk. As time passed, the sorrow seemed to completely consume  Iva, but I never stopped wanting the character to have everything she had dreamed of and which was never in her grasp.  I never forgot Lisa's presence on ATWT, even after Iva was written out and barely mentioned, and I never will. 

Lisa was born in the wrong era - she would have been right at home in the "queens of the lot" era of the '30s and '40s. That's why she was so at home in the old Hollywood homages Nola went through,  especially the Bette  Davis  moments Davis herself wrote her a fan letter in praise of. 

Even if  the filming was shambolic in that final year,  I'm glad Lisa was  willing to return as Nola for the finale, and give fans a chance to say goodbye.

The main moment going around for Lisa seems to be Lily's paternity reveal, which, to be honest, I did not care for as a scene, so I will post this instead: 

Beautifully stated.

I am not sure many soap viewers appreciated this element. Like I stated before, often times about actors that employed a subtler style, which, dramatically, is more difficult to do. One of my acting instructors once said that anyone could get angry and explode on stage, anger was a far more accessible emotion and therefore easier to display than say, despair or indifference, anticipation, dread or ambivalence...those are very real emotions too. Of course, rarely did those snag Daytime Emmy awards.

Just as you mentioned with certain scenes, I remember that break up scene because it had such dramatic range for both actors and Brown truly shined in all her nuanced skill-set. That full sequence probably hasn't been seen since it aired, I know I haven't seen that full sequence since it first aired in real-time but I remember it to this day.

Lisa was very fond of her craft. I believe she stayed on GL for a while (after she left as Nola the second time) as an acting coach for the younger cast. 

A post from Lisa’s son - he says it was a very quick battle with cancer, and her death was unexpected:

 

 

 

 

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Ironically the episode Lisa submitted was released on DVD. 

It was treasure to watch Lisa play two iconic characters on two of my favorite shows. 

As crappy as the Emmys have gotten it would be a nice treat to see the  ATWT and GL cast reunite one last time to honor Lisa Brown. I know it will never happen but it sure would be great to see.

What a poignant and painful sentiment written so eloquently by her son.

I'm deep in the thick of the summer of '86 in my Marland binge, but I think I'll skip ahead to that '87 ep just for today in honor of Brown. (Always nice to see a HQ episode, anyway)

She was one of those soap performers that I knew about even if I didn’t watch GL or ATWT when she was a main character.  Obviously Marland knew how to use her talents.

Truly sad news.  What I have seen thanks to the internet has been so awesome, especially Nola.  She is really good as Iva too, it’s just as other posters have said, she so rarely got to have long lasting joy or any fun.

This is an old story, but I still thought it was a nice moment. When Aretha Franklin was shooting a video for Everyday People, she put out notices inviting soap actors to participate. Most either didn't care or didn't think it was real, so Lisa was the only one who went. She has two short but memorable shots - playing with a bowler hat, and blowing a bubble.

 

4 minutes ago, DRW50 said:

This is an old story, but I still thought it was a nice moment. When Aretha Franklin was shooting a video for Everyday People, she put out notices inviting soap actors to participate. Most either didn't care or didn't think it was real, so Lisa was the only one who went. She has two short but memorable shots - playing with a bowler hat, and blowing a bubble.

 

That’s a cool video! I didn’t realize she was in it. I think she’s at the top with the tiny part of binoculars too.

Oh you're right. It froze and I missed that part.

21 hours ago, Soapsuds said:

During the ATWT reunion Tom Wiggin said the audience was so upset he chose Ellie over Iva. The viewers hated him and Ellie as a couple.

That's because we'd spent like two years invested in them before "cute little Ellie" slid under him and Marland blew them up. And as I remember it, there was no real angst---Kirk barely seemed to care who he was sleeping with. Yes...still salty.