Guiding Light Farewell Tribute Part 2: In Loving Memory

[newattitude]

Omg, I miss Bert soooo much!

[NelsonAspen]

Beautiful...thank you!

[joetofalo]

One word, WOW!

[FebWriter]

Thank you! :-D

[pfcpremosgirl]

Jerry ver Dorn has passed correct? He was awesome. Michael Zaslow was an amazing talent. Great seeing those clips with him. I can't believe there is only 3 days of show left:(

[anya04048]

No, thankfully Jerry is still with us. He just left GL and the character of Ross and unfortunately moved on to One Life to Live. I wish he could have returned in ghost form in the last episodes of GL.

[MrsBobbyJamesEwing]

Great video clip.

[FebWriter]

Thank you. :-D

[whatever30345]

Yes, a great vid tribute except maybe for Ed Bryce & Stefan Schnabel not getting a shoutout. (The other two mentioned could have as well). It also would have been nice if we had a vid. of Nancy Addison Altman as the crazy Cedars volunteer Kit Vestid, who killed Charlotte Waring Bauer & nearly killed Dr. Joe & Dr. Sara Werner, available for a tribute. Another thing about the vid. that I might question is the fact that Larry Gates (H.B.) & William Roerick (Henry) played other characters.

[mthivier]

Kit Vested was CRAZED! I vividly remember being a little kids and watching those scenes at my grandmother's house, where Kit poisoned Sara McEntire's coffee, and she actually seemed to take pleasure in doing so! Nancy Addison was great in that she played other characters on other shows who were nothing like Kit, and was equally convincing in each role.

[whatever30345]

I wish I had direct first hand memories of Kit Vested, but for some reason I don't. I remember my mom having on TGL during that time -- but I must not have been paying any attention. I did get to listen, recently, the scenes you mention about Kit poisoning Sara's coffee on the World of Soap Themes' 70th anniversary salute to GL and even in listening to the audio from the show you are right about how Addison played Kit as CRAZED.

[whatever30345]

Especially interesting to listen to was when Kit held the gun to Sara's head as Joe had to watch (before Joe would get a hold of the gun in a struggle and shoot KIt dead) and Kit yelling at Joe about Sara, "But she has to die!"

[mthivier]

I remember, she snuck into Sara's house and there was coffee in a stovetop percolator (this was, after all, 1974, before most people had Mr. Coffee), and she put some kind of poison in the pot, and then there was a blackboard in the kitchen that said "Home Sweet Home", and Kit took a piece of chalk and underlined 'Sweet", and began laughing. CRAZED PSYCHO!

[whatever30345]

That must have been the April 1974 (I think if my memory serves me about WoST, April 22, 1974) episode right before the 4 episodes (April 23 - 26, 1974) that were highlighted on WoST in audio. Wish that WoSTBrian had had that episode to air at the time of the 70th anniversary. Thanks very much for the information about that episode -- again too bad we don't seem to have any surviving vid. featuring Addison as Kit Vested.

[Soapking1965]

Any clip with Charita Bauer (Bert) makes me well up in tears.

[mthivier]

Wonderful video, and it was so great to see these clips again. I was a huge fan of the show during the '70s and early '80s. Additionally, there were two other wonderful actors who weren't in your clip who are no longer with us, Stefan Schnabel, who played beloved Dr. Jackson from the mid-60s through the end of the decade, whose career goes back to the 30s, and who starred in over 60 films, and Kate Wilkinson who played Rita and Eve's mother Viola during much

[mthivier]

of the '70s and into the early '80s. She was primarily a stage actress who appeared in numerous productions (including the original stage version of "Steel Magnolias" in the role Olympia Dukakis would later play in the film), and was also a familiar face on other P&G soaps like "Another World" (where she played Hudson family matriarch Clara), and "The Edge of Night".

[CaliforniaGuy888]

wow - great job once again...That clip with Bert, Mike and Ed after her operation - i'm so thankful for you posting it...I hadn't seen that since it first aired back in 1984 (?) I believe...Its a clip that GL never rebroadcasts I assume because it is sad to see knowing that Charita (Bert) actually was ill and eventually died due to complications from diabetes.

[jtd375]

Thanks for the wonderful memories... It got me thinking that the original actor who played Clayton Boudreaux also passed away. He was an actor on Days of Our Lives as well. I believe his real name was Richard Biggs..

[ACcountryFan]

wonderful video! in your video description you left out Ed Bryce, who passed away not too long ago. He's the actor playing Bill Bauer in the first scene with Charita...he played the character from 1959 through 1964 and again from 1965-1969. He returned in 1977 when Hillary was revealed to be his daughter and he left shortly afterward and then made a brief return for a final time in 1983, playing in a controversial, yet memorable, storyline involving Eli Sims. Those familiar know what happened.

[annefan73]

first rate Amy!!! wonderful!!

[Jenniferkate]

Okay, the Bert part when she said "I'm going to walk again" has me tearing up... thank you so much!