Was Grayson a beauty or what?

[Julia99]

When was the face work?  It just occurred to me that that one square nostril might be a surgeon's error.

As for stars having surgery, even the smart ones do it, not just face liftes but botox, when acting requires full use of your face muscles.    People worship and trust MDs far too much.

Nov-Dec 1970 during the 1840 storyline.  And she had only an eye lift.  People have suggested maybe she had other surgery, namely her nose but that is inaccurate. 

[Julia99]

PREACH IT!   I hated that damn wig DC insisted she wear.  HORRID!!  I couldn't really understand the fact that Julia Hoffman couldn't have a chic style with short hair.  Indeed she was a DR in a small Maine town, however, she owned a HOSPITAL for God's sake.  I am sure Julia was well cultured.  She was very chic indeed!!

What I believe DC and the other producers meant with the wig was that Dr Hoffman was obsessed with her work not her looks, so she would get a perfunctory hair cut but not muss about how chic it was or was not.  She wasn't vain in that way--brain oriented doctor that she was.   Now once she fell in love with Barnabas of course she started to care about her looks. .leading to the new clothes and haircut.  It actually fits quite well into the character development really.

[Charles_Ellis]

Love the Grayson Avatar, RJ- she looks like Joan Crawford!  The whole 'eyelift' anecdote only proves how valuable Grayson was to Dan Curtis- by that time she was at the nucleus of DS like Jonathan.  DC knew damn well that she was irreplacable!

[MagnusTrask]

Let me get this straight... Dan Curtis thought someone was irreplaceable?!

[Lydia]

I doubt it.  I think it's more likely that Dan Curtis liked the crew of characters he had put together to deal with whatever supernatural crises he cared to throw at them, and he didn't want to mess with it unnecessarily.  As I remember the interview in which Sam Hall mentioned this, Hall (Sam, not Grayson) thought it would make for some interesting developments if Julia were eliminated and Barnabas had to find somebody else to deal with his period excursions into vampirism, but Curtis vetoed it.  I imagine that Curtis wasn't interested in this sort of character development.

[Taeylor Collins]

If it had lasted I know GH would have probably left along with Barney too.  I just can't imagine DS without GH though!  I guess in a way I am glad the show only lasted the time it did.  I hate on General Hospital when my faves leave.  I would love to have back the 90's General Hospital writers it was so good then.  And I miss Genie Franics (Laura)  terribly!!!

[Lydia]

If Julia had been killed off, I expect that Grayson Hall would have been given another part, completely different from Julia.  One possibility might be a descendant of Magda, searching for Count Petofi.

[Taeylor Collins]

And of course no one ever is really dead on soaps, even the "normal" ones.  She could have returned!!  The Magda idea is very cool though Lydia!!

[Julia99]

I regret that Grayson didn't get to play a different kind of role though I know she enjoyed Julia for allowing her to show heartbreak and Magda for just pure delightful craziness. . But on DS she didn't play a wife/mother (Magda's marriage to Sandor notwithstanding) with a few children who  of course cowered at her every word  . .. I wonder why they didn't think of switching actresses for 1840PT making Grayson the widow and Joan Bennett the embittered sister-in-law. . .

[Mysterious Benefactor]

I wonder why they didn't think of switching actresses for 1840PT making Grayson the widow and Joan Bennett the embittered sister-in-law. . .

That certainly would have been interesting. And it definitely wasn't because Grayson's age made for a more plausible [spoiler]red herring as Melanie's mother when her mother turned out to be Josette who had a son who was older than all of Flora's and, therefore, Joan's children.[/spoiler]

[Miranda]

Sorry, no way can I say she was a beauty, not on a show that had Lara, KLS, Donna Wandrey, etc, etc on it, I would say she had more of an interesting look...

[Taeylor Collins]

Have you seen the pictures from  RJ's book?  The Headshot type picture of her and her first husband.  She is an ABSOLUTE knock out.  I think if Grayson wouldn't have smoked so heavily, it would have helped her retain a more "youthful" appearance.  Lets face it, smoking ages you.  NOT to step on anyones toes who smokes.  I used to.  Thank GOD I was able to lay them down.  I like Grayson have asthma and they told me if I didn't quit (when I was 24) that I would have ephesyman by the time I was 35.  I am 30 now! 

[bluefielder]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  I stated on another topic that no actresses on the show held my attention like Grayson, Lara Parker, Alexandra Moltke and Joan Bennett.  As for KLS and Donna Wandrey, they were pretty in a conventional way.  For me, KLS and DW lacked that spark that the other four had.

[Taeylor Collins]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  I stated on another topic that no actresses on the show held my attention like Grayson, Lara Parker, Alexandra Moltke and Joan Bennett.  As for KLS and Donna Wandrey, they were pretty in a conventional way.  For me, KLS and DW lacked that spark that the other four had.

AMEN

[MagnusTrask]

I don't think in terms of "beauty".   Grayson's face grips you (sans uglification wig... DC's idea?).   Frid's does too.   "Pretty" is boring.