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Post by safeandsound on Mar 26, 2021 16:18:27 GMT -8
Haven't watched this yet
Louise Schaffer (Rae), Kelli Maroney (Kim), and Michael Corbett (Michael)
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Post by safeandsound on Mar 29, 2021 14:31:11 GMT -8
Some of the quick notes I jotted down-
Michael had a cute meeting Louise story.
Michael Corbett said he was hired for 3 days and then offered a contract
It looked like Michael was getting a family but Joan Loring (Michael’s mother- Anna Paval) couldn’t remember her lines.
Louise thought she was going to be written out until she met Kelli and then told her husband her job was safe.
Nice how much Louise taught Kelli. I recall on the Soapnet forum Rose Alaio (Rose) said the show offered Kelli no help.
Michael didn’t really answer if anyone helped him.
Michael said he was disappointed when he was written out.
Kelli said she was devastated when she was written out.
The Ryans were not thrilled with the addition of them to the show.
Helen Gallagher (Maeve) told the writers to rewrite scenes where Maeve was to speak with Michael because she said Maeve would never speak to MP. This disappointed Michael as he was a HG fan. Instead Maeve's dialog was given to Delia. He said Randall Edwards (Delia #3) was lovely.
Kelli and Michael were hired to be the show's answer to Luke & Laura and bring in a younger audience.
Louise said Kelli and Michael were charismatic performers and the audience responded to them.
Kelli said they first considered Kim seducing Frank Ryan.
She called John Gabriel (Seneca) a trooper for being stuck with the Lolita s/l
She also said John was not the jealous type.
All 3 gave their story for why they became actors.
Louise hated writing for soaps because she wanted to tell her own stories.
After he was fired, the shows wardrobe person secretly gave Michael all of MP’s clothes to take home.
She gave Kelli some of Kim’s clothes.
Louise talked about why she gave up acting.
Louise loved Edge o Night and that was because of co-stars Ann Flood and Lois Kibbee. That role taught her how not to take the work home because she drove herself a little crazy with the s/l.
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I enjoyed the affection they have of each other.
I was thinking of one of the reports that Michael had been fired because of backstage jealousy - I always thought that it was a male co-star's jealousy but maybe it was a female.
I recall that a blogradio interview ( had to be over 10 years ago) where Louise said there was a clique on the show and she wasn’t part of it – and in this YouTube reunion it really sounded like they were together by themselves on and off screen
Also in the blogradio interview, Louise said was a team player and the show would send her out to do press because they knew she would be positive – even during the Merit Karah s/l.
So it would be interesting to hear her speak even more about everything 40 years later
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