Well, Lynn was playing a psychotic killer on ATWT, plus she was hired as a replacement actor to play out the end of a storyline that had been written for another actor. At that point in the plot, Orlena was essentially breaking-down mentally, so even Claire Bloom might have played it bug-eyed toward the end. Who knows??
No, I don't think this was Lynn's finest moment, but I wouldn't judge her entire television career (limited as it was) by this role. She certainly didn't play AW's Susan Matthews Shearer as bug-eyed. She played Susan as a neurotic woman who had repressed most of her emotions for most of her life, to keep her neurosis under control. But she did not play Susan with much warmth, so Susan lacked warmth which viewers usually expect in a member of the show's core family. This may have been the fault of the writing -- since Lemay loved writing neurotic women (Bernice, Liz, Iris, Louise Goddard, Olive, Rose [to a lesser degree] and Marianne [to a lesser degree]). A more seasoned daytime actor may have been able to warm up the icee material Lemay wrote for Susan.
I never saw Milgrim on the stage. But I've read that she is a magnificent stage actor. I'm not an expert in theater, so I tend to believe what I read about stage actors.
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