I'm afraid Joan Crawford (whose films I adore) would have been a disaster on DS.  If you've never seen it, catch the sequence in the Faye Dunaway classic Mommie Dearest in which they re-create Joan's attempt to replace daughter Christina on her own soap (can't recall which one it was at the moment) when Tina was sidelined due to an illness or surgery.  It's a hoot.

Apart from other considerations, "Miss C" always demanded that her sets be kept cold enough to double as meat lockers (apparently, she broke a sweat very easily when the temp rose, which wreaked havoc with all that makeup).  I doubt they would have been able to accommodate this, and her numerous other demands on DS.

G.

Thanks, Cousin!  that's a minor miracle about that Judge. 

I am praying that it is all smooth sailing for you from here on out!

hugs and many blessings for Midwinter and Merry Xmas,

Steve

Dear Cavada Humphrey.  It would have been so cool to have had Madam Findley return in the Leviathan period to lend a psychic hand--never having died in the first place because Quentin's ghost had never haunted Collinwood (even though that was not how they treated the "changing of history" on the series).

Thanks, MB, for this poignant, memorable shot!

G.

Wow, I totally missed that detail about the location of Angelique's actual coffin.  I really need to re-read that screenplay.

Thanks, MB, for the clarification!

And if I fail to say it closer to the time, a very Merry Xmas to you and yours!

cheers,

G.

How very sad.  In another band of Parallel Time beyond the ones we were ever vouchsafed to see, I like to think of Vicki falling in love with and marrying Frank, who helps her discover the truth about her past--that she is really Elizabeth's daughter by a brief, passionate love affair with Betty Hanscombe's mysterious, ne'er-do-well brother...

Besides his work on DS, Conrad Fowkes, by all accounts, was a remarkable human being.  May he rest in peace.

G.

Love Julia's death-glare today!  Priceless!

Yesterday's shot with Laura and Maggie was brilliant too.  Thanks so much for these, MB!

G.

He certainly did have luscious lips!

I saw in another thread that Selby joked at a book signing last year that he kept hoping Barnabas would bite him.  That's hysterical!

Thanks for sharing those shots, Cousin Taeylor!

G.

msc, I'm right behind you in cheering the appearance of Lovelady Powell as Mrs. Portia Fitzsimmons.

KLS has a vague but persistent memory of another actress having been cast as Dr. Hoffman before Grayson's definitive casting and I and a couple of other fans have wondered whether this might have referred to the Powers that Be having given Powell a stab at the role.  Presumably, for whatever reason, they tested her in it and she didn't work out.  

Powell is one of those actresses one wishes had been given a recurring role in the series.  Jane Draper and Cavada Humprhey are two others.  I don't understand why Portia Fitzsimmons didn't make at least one other appearance during the March-April 1967 storylines--it would have been appropriate.

Powell had a small but vivid role in the nasty, deftly made Shirley Maclaine vehicle, The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972).  She also appeared in the Happy Hooker, according to IMDB.

Best,

Steve