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The Secret Storm
''The Secret Storm'' is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from February 1, 1954, to February 8, 1974. It was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas '' Search for Tomorrow'' and '' Love of Life''. Gloria Monty, of ''General Hospital'' fame, was a longtime director of the series. Like most CBS soap operas of the time, such as ''Guiding Light'' and '' As the World Turns'', ''The Secret Storm'' was broadcast live, and later taped, in New York at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street. At some point in the 1970s up until cancellation, it was taped at CBS Studio 54 at 221 West 26th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. Plot The story follows the Ames family, a prominent clan in the fictional Northeastern United States town of Woodbridge (eventually identified as being located in New York). The Ames family initially consisted of Peter, his wife Ellen, and their three children: Susan, Jerry, and Amy. However, Ellen was k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marla Adams
Marla Vene Adams (August 28, 1938 – April 25, 2024) was an American actress. She was best known for playing the roles of Belle Clemens on the CBS soap opera ''The Secret Storm'' (1968 to 1974) and Dina Abbott Mergeron on the CBS soap opera ''The Young and the Restless'' (1983 to 1986, 1991, 1996, 2008, 2017 to 2020). She won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her role on ''The Young and the Restless'' in 2021. She had been nominated in the same category in 2018. Early life Adams was born in Ocean City, New Jersey. As a teenager, she won the Miss Ocean City and Miss Cape May pageants. She was named Miss Diamond Jubilee at the 75th anniversary celebration of her hometown in 1954. Adams graduated from Ocean City High School two years later. She studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. Career Adams' early theater roles include ''The Mikado'', ''The Devil's a Stranger'', '' Deathtrap'', '' Inherit the Wind'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roy Winsor
Roy William Winsor (April 13, 1912 – May 31, 1987) was an American soap opera writer, creator, producer and mystery novelist. He created three of the longest running soap operas in US television history. Biography Winsor was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 13, 1912, and graduated from Harvard College. Before he created television soap operas, he wrote for many radio serials. He also produced the Western show '' Have Gun – Will Travel'' for the radio. In 1951 he created the long-running soap opera '' Search for Tomorrow'' (1951–1986). For ''Search for Tomorrow,'' he first worked with fellow soap opera writer Agnes Nixon. The same year he created ''Love of Life'' (1951–1980). Three years later he would create another long-running soap opera ''The Secret Storm'' (1954–1974). He produced episodes for situation comedies such as ''I Love Lucy'' and '' My Little Margie''. He created '' Ben Jerrod'' in 1963, the first daytime TV drama to be entirely broadcast in color. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manhattan
Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, largest, and average area per state and territory, smallest county by area in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. Located almost entirely on Manhattan Island near the southern tip of the state, Manhattan constitutes the center of the Northeast megalopolis and the urban core of the New York metropolitan area. Manhattan serves as New York City's Economy of New York City, economic and Government of New York City, administrative center and has been described as the cultural, financial, Media in New York City, media, and show business, entertainment capital of the world. Present-day Manhattan was originally part of Lenape territory. European settlement began with the establishment of a trading post by Dutch colonization of the Americas, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lori March
Lori March (March 6, 1923 – March 19, 2013) was an American television actress. She was best known for her roles on daytime soap operas. Her obituary on the Television Academy's web site noted that she "was dubbed 'First Lady of Daytime Television'." Radio (1955) NBC Radio drama X-1 episode: Knock - Actor as Grace Early years March was born in Hollywood, California. She was the daughter of Theodore von Eltz, an actor, and Peggy Prior, a screenwriter. Poet Joseph Moncure March was her adoptive father. She attended Beverly Hills High School. She studied theatre at HB Studio in New York City. Stage March's Broadway credits include ''Giants, Sons of Giants'' (1961), ''The Chalk Garden'' (1955), and ''Charley's Aunt'' (1953). Television March played Lenore Bradley on the soap opera ''The Brighter Day''. Her other soap operas and roles included '' Three Steps to Heaven'' (Jennifer), ''As the World Turns'' (Nurse Harris), ''The Secret Storm'' (Valerie Hill Ames Northcoate), '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Braxton
Stephanie Braxton (born December 11, 1944, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American television writer, playwright and actress. Acting credits *'' Love Is a Many Splendored Thing'' (Blind student) *''The Secret Storm'' (Laurie Hollister Stevens Reddin #2) *''All My Children'' ( Tara Martin #2) *''The Edge of Night'' ( Winter Austen #2) *'' Quincy M.E.'' (Donna) *''Eight is Enough'' (Doris) *''Dallas'' (Alisha Ogden) *'' King's Crossing'' (Carol Hadary) *''Hill Street Blues'' (Fowler) *''The Jeffersons'' (Leontyne Farrell) *'' The Lilac Papers'' (Jean) *''Caught in the Act'' (Herself) Writing credits *''One Life to Live'' *''Guiding Light'' *''Search for Tomorrow'' (co-head writer with Paul Avila Mayer) *''General Hospital'' (hired by Claire Labine) *''As the World Turns'' (Hired by Douglas Marland) Awards and nominations Daytime Emmy Awards WINS *(1995; Best Writing; ''General Hospital'') *(2001; Best Writing; ''As the World Turns'') NOMINATIONS *(1985; Best Writing; ''Guid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynne Adams
Lynne Adams (born ) is an American actress and writer. Early years Adams is the daughter of Rosalind (née Gould), an actress, and Robert K. Adams, a producer, actor (noted for his appearances on '' The Goldbergs'' and '' Your Family and Mine''), and former vice president of CBS, as well as a descendant of presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams. She is the older sister of actress Brooke Adams. She graduated from the Professional Children's School in New York City in 1965. Career Adams was an apprentice in theaters for eight years, learning skills that included building scenery, managing ticket sales, and operating a lighting board. She debuted as a professional actress in a 1955 production of '' Brigadoon'' at the Flint Musical Tent in Flint, Michigan. Adams played the role of Leslie Jackson Bauer Norris Bauer from 1966 to 1971 and again from August 1973 to June 1976 on '' The Guiding Light''. She was the second generation in her family to act on the program; both her p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverly Lunsford
Beverly Lunsford (January 5, 1945 – May 22, 2019) was an American actress best known for playing Shirley Fletcher on the television sitcom ''Leave It to Beaver.'' Early life Lunsford was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Career Lunsford's early career encompassed several stage performances as well as television and movies. She first appeared at the age of 12 in the 1957 Broadway production of '' The Rope Dancers'', starring Siobhán McKenna and Art Carney. Lunsford's big-screen work started soon after. She appeared in several anthology dramas, then progressed to guest-starring roles on television series such as '' National Velvet'', ''My Three Sons'', and ''Leave It to Beaver''. She temporarily played the part of Amy Ames Britton Kincaid on the CBS soap opera ''The Secret Storm'', during which she filled in for the main star, Jada Rowland. She had previously appeared on ''The Edge of Night''. Lunsford's starring role came in 1961 when she played in Roger Corman's topical dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome
Soap opera rapid aging syndrome (SORAS) is the practice of accelerating the age of a television or film character (usually a child or teenager) in conflict with the timeline of a series or the real-world progression of time. This allows, for instance, storylines around a pregnancy and birth to be relatively quickly followed by storylines around the travails of that child as a teenager or young adult. This is usually accomplished by recasting the actor playing the part, although in some cases the character is not shown onscreen, only mentioned, until after they have been "rapidly aged". The process originated (and is most commonly used) in daytime soap operas, though it is also sometimes used in prime time shows. On sitcoms, a newborn infant character is sometimes aged quickly into a kindergartener, for greater comic potential, as was done with the character Chrissy Seaver on ''Growing Pains'' in 1990. The term was coined by ''Soap Opera Weekly'' founding editor-in-chief Mimi Torc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle Clemens
''The Secret Storm'' is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from February 1, 1954, to February 8, 1974. It was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas ''Search for Tomorrow'' and ''Love of Life''. Gloria Monty, of ''General Hospital'' fame, was a longtime director of the series. Like most CBS soap operas of the time, such as ''Guiding Light'' and ''As the World Turns'', ''The Secret Storm'' was broadcast live, and later taped, in New York at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street. At some point in the 1970s up until cancellation, it was taped at CBS Studio 54 at 221 West 26th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. Plot The story follows the Ames family, a prominent clan in the fictional Northeastern United States town of Woodbridge (eventually identified as being located in New York). The Ames family initially consisted of Peter, his wife Ellen, and their three children: Susan, Jerry, and Amy. However, Ellen was killed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haila Stoddard
Haila Stoddard (November 14, 1913 – February 21, 2011) was an American actress, producer, writer and director.Weber, Bruce (February 25, 2011)Haila Stoddard, Actress and Producer, Dies at 97.''New York Times''; accessed April 20, 2014. During her career as an actress, Stoddard appeared in a number of plays, movies, and television series, including sixteen years as Pauline Rysdale in ''The Secret Storm'' from 1954 to 1970. Stoddard also worked as a producer, both independently and with her production company, Bonard Productions Incorporated, which Stoddard created with Helen Bonfils in 1960.''Notable Women in the American Theatre: A Biographical Dictionary'' (edited by Alice M. Robinson, Vera Mowry Roberts, and Milly S. Barranger). New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. In addition to adapting plays such as ''Come Play with Me'', and ''Men, Women, and Less Alarming Creatures'', Stoddard also wrote plays, such as ''A Round With Ring'' (1969) and ''Zellerman, Arthur'' (1979). Persona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Rysdale
''The Secret Storm'' is an American television soap opera that aired on CBS from February 1, 1954, to February 8, 1974. It was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas ''Search for Tomorrow'' and ''Love of Life''. Gloria Monty, of ''General Hospital'' fame, was a longtime director of the series. Like most CBS soap operas of the time, such as ''Guiding Light'' and ''As the World Turns'', ''The Secret Storm'' was broadcast live, and later taped, in New York at the CBS Broadcast Center on West 57th Street. At some point in the 1970s up until cancellation, it was taped at CBS Studio 54 at 221 West 26th Street in the Chelsea section of Manhattan. Plot The story follows the Ames family, a prominent clan in the fictional Northeastern United States town of Woodbridge (eventually identified as being located in New York). The Ames family initially consisted of Peter, his wife Ellen, and their three children: Susan, Jerry, and Amy. However, Ellen was killed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
