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Post by barnabasbytes on Mar 22, 2016 12:14:14 GMT
NOTE: Virginia Vestoff played Samantha Drew Collins in 1840 www.serialscoop.com/2015/08/the-doctors-recasts-althea-with.htmlAug. 20, 2015 'The Doctors' Recasts Althea with Virginia Vestoff, 46 Years Ago! By Roger Newcomb There's little on TV that brings me more enjoyment than the two half-hour episodes of classic daytime soap opera The Doctors that air on Retro TV each weekday. It is current October 1969 at Hope Memorial Hospital, and we already know what is going to happen over the next 13 years until the show ended on December 31, 1982. So why was I so upset when the announcer started Wednesday's second episode with, "The part of Althea Davis is being played by Virginia Vestoff"? I knew it was coming, but this recast was quite jarring nonetheless. I didn't realize how dramatically different Vestoff looked compared to her predecessor, Elizabeth Hubbard, one of the best actors to ever appear in a daytime drama. This is going to take some getting used to! Hubbard returns to the role of Althea in a year or six months if Retro TV's two-episodes-a-day schedule remains in tact. It can't come soon enough for me. Earlier in 1969, Vestoff received a Tony nomination for creating the role of Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, in the popular musical ''1776'' on Broadway. Sadly, Vestoff passed away in 1982 at only 42 years of age after a battle with cancer. ... (The article concludes with links to clips of Elizabeth Hubbard and Virginia Vestoff that no longer work.) They are now up to episodes with Nancy Barrett ("Carolyn Stoddard"), who joined the cast in June 1971. She took over the role of nurse "Cathy Ryker." But the most interesting thing to me has been ROBERT COBERT's music. Some is recognizable as DS music, some not so much. There are plenty of DS-style stings at the commercial breaks Original Music by ROBERT W. COBERT Costume Designer MOSTOLLER Wardrobe furnished by Ohrbach's
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2016 16:59:49 GMT
Watched the awful musical 1776 last night and David Ford, yes Sam Evans himself, had a solid supporting role as John Hancock.
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Post by jason on Mar 23, 2016 17:09:11 GMT
Watched the awful musical 1776 last night and David Ford, yes Sam Evans himself, had a solid supporting role as John Hancock. I have great memories of being in a production of '1776' once - but not the same one as David Ford! You should have seen ours. KLS was in an episode of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. She was an alien, and it took me just a minute to place her, but she has a very distinctive voice.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2016 18:01:50 GMT
I'd like to have seen it I like the songs and some performances but it's just filmed in a very odd way and is overly long at 3 hours. Seems like it could use an editor. Still - can't have been that bad as I stuck with it. It made a wonderful contrast to the earlier experience I had with the same story, HBO's John Adams. This was...different
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Post by jason on Mar 23, 2016 23:57:38 GMT
I'd like to have seen it I like the songs and some performances but it's just filmed in a very odd way and is overly long at 3 hours. Seems like it could use an editor. Still - can't have been that bad as I stuck with it. It made a wonderful contrast to the earlier experience I had with the same story, HBO's John Adams. This was...different Three hours is very long and I bet it didn't even do an intermission (besides perhaps commercials). Being in the show - even seeing it live - is obviously a totally different experience! Some things don't translate well to film, and I suspect a lot of musicals fall into that category. It was actually a fun male bonding experience, kind of like being on a sports team. Great camraderie, and our audiences seemed happy! HBO's John Adams - I think - was based on the David McCullough biography, which is definitely worth a read even if they botched the adaptation. Just stick Joshua Collins in there somewhere just out of the scene.
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Post by jason on Mar 23, 2016 23:58:27 GMT
I was looking forward to seeing 1776 someday, but have put it off for over 30 years. Apparently for many people (including Roger Ebert) it isn't their cup of tea. If it's good enough for David Ford, don't listen to that Ebert guy!
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Post by kimalysong on Mar 24, 2016 0:01:17 GMT
Never saw 1776 but I worked in a historical gift shop abd they played the soundtrack quite often (I live in Phila so it was especially relevant).
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Post by jason on Mar 24, 2016 14:01:36 GMT
Never saw 1776 but I worked in a historical gift shop abd they played the soundtrack quite often (I live in Phila so it was especially relevant). Consider yourself lucky. During rehearsals, my nearest and dearest had to listen to me sing the soundtrack quite often. PHL area here, too BTW (South Jersey), and yes it is 'hot as hell' here in July!
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Post by silverednickle on Mar 26, 2016 21:14:51 GMT
I just listened to Les Liaisons Dangereuses on audible and our very own David Darington was involved in the production.
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Post by jason on Mar 29, 2016 1:18:09 GMT
Pic in the other thread reminded me - Robert Gerringer (sp?) was also in The Edge of Night. Joel Crothers too, actually.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2016 23:45:36 GMT
Tonight we watched: Thayer David as Dragon in Clint Eastwood's The Eiger Sanction. Dragon is a shady figure who seems to be halfway between a mob boss and a shady US Government official. He employs Eastwood - the world's best assassin/art professor/mountain climber (yes, he is an expert at all 3) to globetrot and assassinate some folks. Thayer plays an albino who can't be in ANY daylight so he's constantly living in this place lit by red light only. He has his hair dyed white and wears creepy contacts. It's a really creepy little role. The film is a bit disjointed. It becomes a spectacle film about climbing treacherous mountains when the first half is about asassins taking down international targets.
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Post by joehart1962 on Jun 14, 2016 14:35:00 GMT
Virginia Vestoff was in the movie '1776' as well. She played Abigail Adams.
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Post by coldlazarou on Jun 15, 2016 7:45:29 GMT
For me, the late great Thayer David will always be the villainous Mr Byron from the original (and best, dangnammit - unless and until the new Tom Holland / Marisa Tomei film proves me wrong) Spider-Man movie.
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Post by cschell on Jun 17, 2016 4:15:47 GMT
Watched the awful musical 1776 last night and David Ford, yes Sam Evans himself, had a solid supporting role as John Hancock. I have great memories of being in a production of '1776' once - but not the same one as David Ford! You should have seen ours. KLS was in an episode of 'Star Trek: The Next Generation'. She was an alien, and it took me just a minute to place her, but she has a very distinctive voice. Mitch Ryan was also on Star Trek: The Next Generation and was very nearly cast as Captain Picard himself...
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Post by gregm on Jun 19, 2016 21:45:53 GMT
Lara Parker appeared in an episode of Kung Fu.
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Post by gljohnson17 on Jul 5, 2016 21:41:54 GMT
Nancy B also took over the role of Faith Coleridge in Ryans Hope.
Just found Grayson Hall was,the kidnap victim in That Darn Cat.
Journey to the center of the earth will always be a special Thayer character.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2016 9:42:00 GMT
Watched The Last Days Of Patton over the weekend - KLS popped up as his mistress/wife's niece.
It was a cheap TV movie but if you liked the film Patton, this has George C Scott reprising the role.
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Post by Trace on Jul 13, 2016 21:43:45 GMT
I loved Nancy as Faith on Ryan's Hope, although her run was too brief.
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Post by barnabaslives on Jul 14, 2016 22:23:53 GMT
I didn't actually succeed in spotting her in the movie but was pleasantly surprised to see the familiar name of Sheila Steafel from The Lucifer Gambit in the cast for Daleks - Invasion Earth: 2150 AD the other day. Somehow that had eluded me previously.
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Post by bobod on Jul 14, 2016 22:58:58 GMT
Ironically that means you can hear her in DS and see her in DW. As she wasn't available to do the dubbing on the Dalek movie, so it's not her voice. She and Eileen Way are the two women living alone and scavenging.
Sheila is marvellous. I've not seen her for ages.
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