That girl never caught on as Patty. The previous actress (Lilibet Stern) was very pretty, and she was extremely popular in the role. When she left (in the middle of a big story arc), Bill Bell made the decision to recast the part, and Miss Evans got the role. She just wasn't Lilbet Stern by any stretch of the imagination, and once Patty's divorce from Jack Abbott was finalized, the character (and the actress) mercifully got the axe so Bell could concentrate on the characters who were more appealing. Ironically, when you look back at those episodes today, Evans was just fine in the role, IMHO. I think I would've learned to like her. But at the time my friends and I called her "that ole fake Patty".
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Broderick · 10 minutes ago 10 min
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