OT - Daytime Emmy Nod

I just read that Thorsten Kaye, Port Charles' Doc-turned-Vamp, Ian Thornhart (you gotta love that surname for a vamp  ), was nominated for a Daytime Emmy in the Best Actor category.

It's nice to see Vamps finally get a bit of respect. 

They didn't have 'Daytime Emmies' back in the '60s, right?

Patti

They didn't have 'Daytime Emmies' back in the '60s, right?

Unfortunately, that's right.  This year's will be the 31st annual event.

I just got the Barnabas and Company book yesterday, and was happy to read that several DS cast members have been nominated for daytime Emmys. Joan Bennett was nominated for a special Emmy in 1968 for outstanding achievement in daytime programming (this must have been part of the regular primetime Emmys?), Joel Crothers was nominated for The Edge Of Night in 1979 and 1984, and Louis Edmonds was nominated in '84, '85, and '86 for All My Children. I thought that was really cool!

I spent a good amount of time last night on the web looking up Joan's nomination. I thought she had won and I was going to mention it in this thread. I only had luck finding nominees - no winner. It was very frustrating.

This was the only list I found that included Joan's nomination:

IMDB1968EmmyAwardsList

Does anyone know anything about Joan's thoughts on her nomination, if she attended the show, etc.?

Thanks, scottd, for posting DS alumni emmy nominations.

Two DS alumni that I think deserved to be nominated for their performances on the show are Nancy Barrett and Thayer David as they (IMHO) gave consistantly excellent performances while also playing a wide range of characters. There are others but I think NB and TD are the standouts, again, IMHO.

I only had luck finding nominees - no winner. It was very frustrating.

The reason for that is because the Emmy in Joan's category was never actually awarded. (Her competition, BTW, was Days Of Our Lives actor and fellow Hollywood vet Macdonald Carey.)

I'm wondering if it was an acknowledgment nod from the Academy of TV to those actors in the category because of the outstanding nature of each of their performances.  Sort of like one of those lifetime achievement awards you see on the Academy Awards.  It would be rather odd to have men and women actors competing with one another.

And, what a tough call that would have been to choose between MacDonald Carey and Joan Bennett.  I say give it tie and let them each take home a statue.  I say tough because MacDonald Carey is such a stand out.

Joan Bennett joins other big movie names like Barbara Stanwyck,
Marilyn Monroe, Marlene Dietrich,
Lena Horne, Ann Miller
and many others who had long careers in film
but no Oscar nominations.

JB in Scarlet Street was worthy of Oscar consideration to be sure.
I'm glad Joan at least got the Emmy nod.

The only soap star to win an Emmy for a daytime show before the daytime Emmys began was Mary Stuart, for Search for Tommorow, in 1962.