RIP Lisa Brown

[Soapsuds]

Nope!

I wish he had gotten her and the Snyder men on too.

[DramatistDreamer]

It would be a really good opportunity for someone else like Michael Fairman, to do something with a group too.

 I am watching part of the early part of the livestream tribute and did Martha say that Lisa was fired from ATWT? When did it happen?

[Soapsuds]

I was going to mention that too but kept forgetting to post about it. I had no clue she had been fired. I don't recall her last appearance on the show. I wonder if it was post Marland 90s or during Goutman run when she was fired.

Edited April 29, 2022 by Soapsuds

[DramatistDreamer]

Was she on contract when about an took over? I don’t have much recollection of the show’s dynamics during that time?

[Soapsuds]

I thought she was last seen sometime in 1995 but returned for the Rose story in 2000 or was it 2001? I could see john valente firing her considering he was letting go of vets when he became EP in 1995.

[victoria foxton]

Iva was pretty much wallpaper during her early 2000's appearances.

[DramatistDreamer]

God, the late 90s on ATWT was such a muddled mess at times.

[Vee]

She made appearances in the early 2000s, but AFAIK Goutman couldn't have fired her because she wasn't on contract after the mid-'90s.

[Contessa Donatella]

Looking at the ATWT DVDs

Secrets & Scandals, Disc 2, Episode 2, Lily's World Crumbles.

The Lily & Holden Story, Disc 2, Episode 7, Switched at Birth.

maybe she's in those 2. I'll look at these 4 episodes & see.

I beg your pardon for quoting myself. I wanted all 4 of these to be in one post.

[Faulkner]

I’m watching now. Very emotional stuff from Martha Byrne and Anne Sayre. Lisa’s sudden passing is still so raw for them, understandably so.

Gotta say, I’m annoyed with how Alan treated Maeve Kinkead, cutting off her stories for William Fichtner and JWS.

 

[Vee]

I didn't realize Sayre and Lisa Brown were close.

[DramatistDreamer]

I had forgotten that Sayre was in Martha Byrne’s web soap Gotham, the web, which Brown dIrected.

It seems as though Sayre regarded Brown as an elder stateswoman and looked to her for guidance in navigating the industry. It sounds like she also had very high regard for Brown as well.

[DRW50]

Lisa was fired in fall 1993 around the same time Anne Sward was. Iva gave up fighting for Aaron (which I really hated and it made me hate Holden for years because he barely spent time with that child) and left for a new life with Jason Benedict.

I'm sorry I missed the tribute. I hope it went well.

I think Iva made some appearances in 1994. I can't  remember about 1995. 

[DramatistDreamer]

Well, it’s on YouTube, so you can always check the replay.
 

Wow, on that timing. Marland died in the spring and they fired Brown and Sward in the fall? That’s cold, man!

[DRW50]

Thanks. I probably will, although it's going to be tough to watch.

Yes.  Even though 1993 was a  decently rated year for the show, I imagine the budget cuts were kicking in, and characters who had been written into a corner or who had not been central players in a while were among the  first to go. Not that it's really the same but this  is also when Lucinda's daughter Bianca left and forgotten about by everyone at the show but Liz Hubbard.

I know Marland and Lisa were very close, so I wonder how much their friendship had helped keep Iva on the show up to that point as she could have gone after the Aaron reveal (I wonder if that's another reason he also had her get pregnant with  John's baby).