What kind of "test" did Connie have the young girls pass? She sounds so tough. Tres, tres Jolie! David Bartons ex, the surreally fabulous party thrower Susanne Bartsch, did two Love Balls, elaborate fashion-oriented galas benefiting AIDS charities, at Roseland in 1989 and 91. Connie's line delivery here is so odd. Did Elaine and Lois scissor when Elaine did her short-term stint on EON? I think with Texas, the network was hoping that the resounding success of Dallas at that point of time would be enough to draw viewers to their new oil/cowboy-themed show. One nutjob wants to write his own version of The Guiding Light. Share memories and family stories, photos, or ask questions. Biographies are our place to remember and discover more about the people important to us. Soap fans are always trying to make certain producers and writers villains, and in some cases they might be on to something, but most of the time these people are given marching orders by the networks and the production companies and are paid very well to take the blame when it all goes wrong. Ada was the type who ran with a fast crowd in her teens and probably "had" to get married. Two part interview with Strasser discussing Connie. I think at one point (1988, during the Eden rape storyline), they only had 12 actors on contract. I am still so sad about TGL. As if anyone in their right mind would choose Doug Watson over William Grey Espy, who was sex on a stick. The other night, for Love Ball III at Gotham Hall, I was content to sit back and watch, and this time found that it wasnt a series of fashion house production numbers, it was a judged competition with specific categories la Pose balls. She has a new movie set to premiere in 2022 titled 5,000 Blankets, a family film about a movement to help the unhoused. But I guess they wanted to emphasize Rachel was from a blue collar background. He had a mental breakdown. I was thrilled when an alumnus of Logos The Big Gay Sketch Show was brought into the Saturday Night Live ensemble. Talk about scissor sisters! Share highlights of Constance's life. R21 [quote] She always played unlikeable characters. He can grab my pussy any time he wants. That clip at r74 was when I started watching AW when I was a teenager. Its next Wednesday -- June 23. How much did McKinsey make on AW and GL? But Lily was on top! Proceeds benefited the CFDA-Vogue Initiative/New York City AIDS Fund of the New York Community Trust. 10:00AM - 8:00PM; Google+ Twitter Facebook Skype. Generation also known as The Greatest Generation. If Lemay brought Iris back, he had to have had every intention of reviving the Rachel/Mac/Iris conflict. He's been banned elsewhere but Muriel has yet to drop the hammer on this psycho here. [quote]r369 I wish my abuelita was still alive so I could tell her Connie was a dyke. Horrible acting. Only has a couple of credits after her stint on AW ended. The longtime lover of dancer Marion Morgan, Arzner wore suits and was unapologetically lesbianic, basically directing her own life and career trajectory. She looks very familiar. Oh my goodness! I was over in France a few years ago and I came across an episode of it. Connie was a cunt lezzy bull dyke. Sorry. And even if it took eons, knowing that such a two-time, Oscar-winning icon is one of us and says so herself is more meaningful than the silence of the lesbians. My Grandmother loved John Dixon. Constance Ford Family Background & Career. [quote]r133 especially as Constance Towers' signature is on it. Connie had been through it and worked with some of the greats. Ms. Ford appeared in a number of films, including "A Summer Place," "Home From the Hill," "Rome Adventure" and "The Caretakers." But they didnt have a best cue card reader category. I remember when Anna Stuart first started on AW. A Russian actress who starred on Broadway and also in movies (both silent and with sound), Alla supposedly hooked up with other grand dames like Eva Le Gallienne and the aforementioned Dorothy Arzner. Method acting? - Sat. I've changed my opinion on this over the years, but I do think the hour destroyed what is known as "classic" soap opera. [quote] the actress playing her daughter (who looks young enough to be her granddaughter). She continues to work as an actress, appearing in many other movies and television series. My teen years featured a fantasy with Matthew Cory, Andy Dixon and I being caught with a bottle of baby oil in the stables by Holden Snyder and Sam Fowler. It should have been Days, Texas, and then Another World to at least give Texas a fighting change. "JANE CAMERON" AND "ACTRESS" SHOULD NOT BE IN THE SAME FUCKING SENTENCE! [quote] Santa Barbara would have worked especially well as a 30minute show, since they never really more than 25 contract cast members at a time. Aug. 29, 2019 7 AM PT. The homo nephew has not provided anything. And what a great title. What killed soaps in the long run was expanding them to an Hour - they just wind up padding much of the show at double the cost. This is in addition to her Connecticut farm and LA Apartment. Constance Ford, an actress who appeared for 25 years in the role of Ada Hobson, an indestructably upbeat mother in the NBC daytime serial "Another World," died yesterday at New York Hospital. I like JFP. Liz Foster on Y&R probably comes closest, maybe Geraldine Whitney on Edge. When she came out in 1992 (a year before Melissa Etheridge), she satisfied a Constant Craving for lesbians to have a musical role model. Sean Young, best known for her roles in " Blade Runner " and "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective . Wait, Ada was a lesbian? [4], Ford never publicly dated, married, or had children, which fueled rumors that she was a lesbian. She also had a memorable walk-on playing a flirtatious but bored society matron who makes a play for Warren Beatty in All Fall Down. ( m. 1998) . 1 years shorter than An Cali Timmons as Paulina was heaven. She didn't even try to hide it. Her cue card reading on AW was embarrassingly bad. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images), UNITED STATES - JULY 29: ELLEN / THESE FRIENDS OF MINE - gallery - Season One - 7/29/94, Ellen DeGeneres (Ellen Morgan), (Photo by Bob D'Amico/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images via Getty Images), BURBANK, CA - MARCH 23: Sara Gilbert attends the premiere of ABC's "Roseanne" at Walt Disney Studio Lot on March 23, 2018 in Burbank, California. I couldn't imagine GH or GL or even ATWT being 30 min when they were at their best. They had Matthew walking around naked all the time on AW. [quote]Why was she a nasty old bitch to everyone, including fans? Hello. Why they brought that old bitch Stuart back was another nail in the coffin of AW. That is why Bold & Beautiful is such a hit internationally. For one, like her character Carmen . McKinsey comes off as a nouveau riche low-born gutter snipe. I can see why she was cast as Ada. Without Fritz Steiner's music, you would never have know whether her lines mattered to the plot She would have been better off remaining a model.. Hey homo Penberthy, wheres the video of Connie eating out Geri Court? Love Beverly Penberthy - wish she'd never have left AW. Best remembered for her long-running role as Ada Hobson on "Another World." Before Fame. Movie actors who did soaps, in addition to Connie after their movie careers, Once I wanted to study acting, so I had an interview with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. No shade to Judi, but I loved when Iris and Amanda and Paulina had scenes. She needs help. when she died at the age of 69. CONSTANCE Marten's dad Napier has said he is "relieved" his aristocrat daughter has been found. This is the one soap my grandmother (a Harvard grad) got hooked on. Oh, Matt Crane was a first class slice of twink BITD. Nickolas Muray/Conde Nast via Getty Images. She was famous for being a Soap Opera Actress. They didnt have time to invest in a new soap as they would have in the 50s and 60s. She is a member of famous Actress with the age 70 years old group. Think Jennifer Munson's death on ATWT. I saw Irene long after she had left "AW`" in Strindberg's "The Father", and she was heartbreaking. Was there an actor on AW that failed Connies test, and didnt get along with her. I can't find the episode anywhere, but I saw it as a late night rerun on a Detroit TV station. Did she talk about her female lovers like Louise Fitzhugh? R182 she was great in "Imitation of Life". I'm watching 1979 episodes where Ada consoles Rachel over Mac's sudden marriage to Janice (Christine Jones). As a cast, the AW group just seemed more no nonsense than other soap casts. Grandma likes swizzling down on a pussy. "George Lopez" star Masiela Lusha has managed to stay busy in the years after the sitcom got canceled by ABC. Charita, Hulswit, O'Leary, Elvera Roussell, Marsha Clark. However, he allegedly 'fell' for his Better co-star Leila Farzad, 39 . Constance Ford Arthur Kennedy, Diane McBain, and Constance Ford at the dinner table in a scene from the film 'Claudelle Inglish', 1961. Did Holland Taylor and Lois ever scissor? Hitting that will make all the posts by the Soap Psycho disappear. A poor family makes good and moves to the nice part of town is not a big enough attention grabber, especially not in the late 70s when the other shows had teenage girls sleeping with their mother's boyfriends and killing them and all the other soapy things that were going on back then. AncientFaces is a place where our memories live. The fucking MORON at r200 decides for everyone who can talk to who. Prior to her acting carter, she worked as a model and appeared in the 1941 Elizabeth Arden advertising campaign for Victory Red lipstick. Just because some gay relative posts does not make her a goddess on here. I think Lemay was a great writer, but he was never able to duplicate his Another World success, on other shows. Did either of them ever work again? I've been down the rabbit hole of 1990 Another World episodes on YouTube all weekend. Rauch should have told her to learn her fucking lines. And a very inspiring OP photo, if I do say so myself. Another great Ada scene after Mac's death: Constance and a young Elaine Stritch looked as if they could have been sisters. Taking note of another judge, Mary J. Blige, Billy said, I tried to get that asymmetrical Mary J. Blige bob that goes over one eye, but I couldnt get my wig person to do it fast enough! As wonderfully extra looks and movements filled categories like Head To Toe and Move To The Groove, Billy made remarks like Giving us neon pickle juice realness! and Are you ready for the next category? My aunt was told toward the end Connie was very sick and worked until she simply couldnt. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Mikado Beer drinking, cigarette smoking long legged Connie was surely a fixture at the lezzy bars. June Nelson. DUMB FUCKS! Donna Swajeski did a great job on AW. I could see Lois playing Myrna Clegg's mother, a world traveler with great political influence, sort of how Geraldine was first introduced and how Myrna was presented. Sandra was often referred to as "the surfing Bernhardt", r181. Constance Ford was a BITCH to me on the set of "Another World"! [quote] She rarely worked again because she was just not that good. What is Constance's ethnicity and where did her parents, grandparents & great-grandparents come from? I know it's an inside joke here, but she really was brand new sexy Donna. Squeamish people didnt want Ellen or even her sitcom character to come out, but both happened in 1997, and the masses had to deal. Saw carpet muncher Irene Daily on the Amityville Horror this morning. Looking kind of Dorothy Malone / Martha Hyer / Lola Albright. I wonder if Locher will have the balls to bring up the Bev McKinsey situation or the whole Dobson debacle at SB. Her other Broadway credits included "See the Jaguar" with James Dean, "Say Darling," "Golden Fleecing" and "Nobody Loves an Albatross" with Robert Preston. Fat Ed Bauer. THE Guiding Light wasn't my show, so Maureen Bauer's death wasn't some traumatic experience for me. The Matthews family had a brief return in the late '80s with Russ, Liz, and Olivia. Did they pull her in off the street at the last moment to perform this role? Maybes: Agnes Moorehead, Spring Byington, Marjorie Main, Lizabeth Scott, Katharine Hepburn, Janet Gaynor, Ann B. Davis, Nancy Kulp. It's obvious that she was drawn to younger actors as a mentor but they had to pass her test first to be worthy of it. According to the Another World Home Page, Ada had 8 other siblings. It basically ended when Charles Keating was written in. She was basically my hag in the building, but she never knew it, since I never told her I was gay. Stevens. My cast mates recognize me as saving the form and a legendary leading actress and grande dame. Fat soap names too like TGL and TYATR. Fat soap names: THE Guiding Light/TGL (what a loon calling it that 50 years later). That's true, soaps in their day, paid for primetime and development season. marked her first venture into horror, but it by no means proved her last. I learned that during my time in the trenches. Constance Ford began her career in television in the 1950s, performing in live television dramas on Studio One in Hollywood (1948), Armstrong Circle Theatre (1950), Goodyear Playhouse (1951), and other acclaimed series, and playing recurring characters in four afternoon serials; "Rose Peabody" in Search for Tomorrow (1951), "Lynn Sherwood" in Woman with a Past (1954), "Eve Morris" in The Edge of Night (1956) and "Ada Davis Downs Hobson" in Another World (1964). I am still bitter about it! I'd sure love to stick one in the stink and two in the pink! No one would ever believe Connie Ford as someone's mother after seeing that performance. I think Eileen Fulton, Linda Dano, and a lot of those types had great apartments. I thought that was Dame Angela's speciality. What I am watching is multi-generational, balanced, no one is eating the show, couples are good. Although George starred . Damn. Between "Edge of Night" and, "One Life to Live", Lois apparently played Elaine Descott on "Search For Tomorrow". Calista Flockhart never set out to become a star, but that's exactly what happened when she got her big break in the late 1990s with the . The sad thing of it is, I get the impression VW thought that by adding on all those affectations, she was matching Charles Keating as an actress and not coming across as a pompous windbag. She picked up Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac on the plane to L.A. and schtupped him for a while. I have zero recollection of the scene I read with her. Even if there *were* still NYC based soaps today, I doubt many of the actors would be able to afford an apartment with a big terrace like that. This is about Connie - pussy licker extraordinaire! Despite how every one groans about plot over character, the truth is soaps need a little plot to get off the ground. She was last seen at the PA Horror Con and Film Festival in 2022 . Enjoy! A half hour was much too short if the storylines were popping. Was Bev's nephew the source of the Len Valenta film? Courtesy of Mark Seigler. Per Heches autobiography, Anna Banana Stuart bought her her first vibrator. Rise to Prominence. Did they write about Lezzie Connie? June Blair 1 Episode 1958. She looked bored out of her mind the entire time, like she didn't wanna be there and was just doing it for the paycheck. Who were the people in Constance's life? Poor Bev P. She had to sit by and watch eyes-a-buggin and "daddy" mac pass her and zoom to the top of the credits. The people behind scenes can't win. Peggy Sloane was the writer at the time, I wonder if it was some kind of network pressure or a budget move to get rid of the character. They didn't really "lose" her to Texas. Not real life. She was slimmed down at the time and looks great in the early 1960's fashions, my favorite era. Shes won a Grammy, an Oscar (for Best Song), and our admiration for years as someone who helped make it okay for music stars to be out and loud. I guess its a cultural thing.. Would she be in the "chic older lesbian" category? [7] She acted on Broadway from 1949, appearing in such productions as the musical Say Darling and Nobody Loves an Albatross. He also claimed Young had left a disturbing voodoo doll on his front step. If you have some time today watch this. The old fat perv from SON Soapsuds is hurt because Alan Locher basically told him to fuck off. I just know it! It would make it easier for you to sneak off with his HARLOT OF A MOTHER! She was good on early AW. She is also well-known for appearing in nearly two dozen movies from 1956 to 1974, with her most noteworthy role . Runners-up: Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Brandi Carlile, Chely Wright, Tracy Chapman, Queen Latifah, Brooke Candy, Missy Elliott. Oh, really, R35. Also: Lynn Fontanne, Katherine Cornell, Patsy Kelly, Constance Ford, Kristy McNichol, Linda Hunt, Heather Matarazzo, Cherry Jones, Pamela Sneed, Ruby Rose. Joann Willette is an American actress from Lewiston, Maine. It's a Santa Barbara thread for more indepth SB discussion. Constance Wu has said she tried to kill herself after facing a backlash over comments she made about the renewal of her TV series Fresh Off The Boat. Do not speak for us ALL. That life changed well before Nancy was born. Texas was originally envisioned as a costume drama set during the Civil War called "Reunion". But then the show failed to play it out all the repercussions. Judith was the original Lenore Moore Curtin on AW. I will have to do a search on DL to see if there is a thread already. Susan Sullivan gets the "and" credit, as a proper star should. We are changing the login scheme for contributors for simpler login and to better support using multiple devices. It's solid soap opera. Never happy. And then I remember visiting her several years later for a couple weeks and it was DOOL, AW and Search for Tomorrow. GL hit a perfect shitstorm in 1992-93 where it was gaining viewers, climbing regularly to #3, #4 in the ratings then SPLAT. Also starring Constance Marie, Masiela Lusha, and Luis Armand Garcia, the show gave us hearty laughs and the opportunity to learn valuable lessons. The Biography piece is collaborative, where we work together to present the facts. The Maureen death happened almost 30 years ago on a long cancelled show. Once more details are available, we will update this section. Not everyone, r419. It was a very real scene and I wonder if it was improvised. She is believed to have died by mixing prescription pills with alcohol. I told her it was an inside joke. Sentinel Infotech I think Santa Barbara appealed to a more educated audience as opposed to a show like ATWT, whose bread and butter was its older less educated audience. 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