I really wish they would have bought Hope when Alan Michael was on the show. She could have overcome her drinking, become a successful counselor and heal the wounds with Alan Spaulding.
Actually, Stuart, Charita Bauer ("Bert Bauer" here) and Helen Wagner (of "As The World Turns") were the matriarchal trinity of daytime drama! Were one to expand that trio to a quintet, add Audrey Peters, for 20+ years playing "Vanessa Dale Sterling" on "Love of Life," & Ann Flood, "Nancy Karr" on "The Edge Of Night," length equivalently. They were the ladies who were top-billed for decades on the soaps produced by the folks who put the "soap" in soap opera, Procter & Gamble.
Notice that this is Ellen Demming as "Meta Bauer Roberts Banning" in this clip, the actress who played the role longest; a role resurrected in the '90s by "Search For Tomorrow" veteran Mary "Jo" Stuart, the "first lady of soap operas." If anyone else besides Demming was to have played this role, Stuart was the one!
This meant that, for a few years, Mattson and Meriwether were again acting together in the same production.
Also, coincidentally, as previously mentioned, actress Leeds-Fickman had guested on "Barnaby Jones," meaning Meriwether got to act with two "Hope Bauers" of "The Guiding Light"--Leeds-Fickman & Mattson! Small world.
Mattson was a child actress herself, having acted in "Namu The Killer Whale," one of her co-stars in that film former Miss America Lee Meriwether (who co-starred in two TV series, "Time Tunnel" & "Barnaby Jones," as well playing "Catwoman" in the feature film based on the '60s "Batman" TV show, when Julie Newmar had to bow out due to another commitment) was also cast on "All My Children" as "Ruth Martin," since the character's inception played by as "Mary Fickett, who eventually retired.
The first adult "Hope" was played by Robin Mattson, who has been a much sought-after actress on many a soap. She has been on "Santa Barbara" and played the deliciously evil-turned-good role of "Janet Green Dillon" on "All My Children" for a few years, after Kate Collins left the role (actually, Colins got to do the "evil twin" bit, also playing "Natalie Hunter Dillon").
She then came to "Guiding Light," playing "Hope" from '68-'73, with Don Stewart as father "Mike," Stewart playing that role the longest, for 16 years! Leeds-Fickman went on to do many guest roles on TV & films, including "All In The Family," "Barnaby Jones" & "Charley's Angels," is now a talent agent.
Yes, but "Julie" was "Hope's" mother. The second "Hope," who played the role for five years, was great--a very natural & convincing child actress by the name of Elissa Leeds (now Leeds-Fickman), who also played the same role with the actor (Gary Pilar) then playing "Mike Bauer," on "Another World," in the first soap "crossover" storyline from 1966-68.
In the 1953 clips, Bert was kind of mean and selfish. She also didn't semm to like Meta very much. I see that by 1966 she became the Bert I remember. The grandchild she mentions in this clip is probably Hope, who went on to marry Alan Spaulding and give birth to Alan-Michael.
Hope's parents are Mike Bauer (Bert's son, Ed's brother) and his wife Julie Conrad Bauer. I believe Julie died while Hope was a baby, so she was raised by Mike, Bert, and Mike's new wife Leslie (after she divorced his brother Ed, lol).
Bert looks a lot like Maureen around this time.
CarlD2 3 years ago
I really wish they would have bought Hope when Alan Michael was on the show. She could have overcome her drinking, become a successful counselor and heal the wounds with Alan Spaulding.
laminage 4 years ago 2
Actually, Stuart, Charita Bauer ("Bert Bauer" here) and Helen Wagner (of "As The World Turns") were the matriarchal trinity of daytime drama! Were one to expand that trio to a quintet, add Audrey Peters, for 20+ years playing "Vanessa Dale Sterling" on "Love of Life," & Ann Flood, "Nancy Karr" on "The Edge Of Night," length equivalently. They were the ladies who were top-billed for decades on the soaps produced by the folks who put the "soap" in soap opera, Procter & Gamble.
gymnastix 4 years ago 2
Notice that this is Ellen Demming as "Meta Bauer Roberts Banning" in this clip, the actress who played the role longest; a role resurrected in the '90s by "Search For Tomorrow" veteran Mary "Jo" Stuart, the "first lady of soap operas." If anyone else besides Demming was to have played this role, Stuart was the one!
gymnastix 4 years ago
This meant that, for a few years, Mattson and Meriwether were again acting together in the same production.
Also, coincidentally, as previously mentioned, actress Leeds-Fickman had guested on "Barnaby Jones," meaning Meriwether got to act with two "Hope Bauers" of "The Guiding Light"--Leeds-Fickman & Mattson! Small world.
gymnastix 4 years ago
Mattson was a child actress herself, having acted in "Namu The Killer Whale," one of her co-stars in that film former Miss America Lee Meriwether (who co-starred in two TV series, "Time Tunnel" & "Barnaby Jones," as well playing "Catwoman" in the feature film based on the '60s "Batman" TV show, when Julie Newmar had to bow out due to another commitment) was also cast on "All My Children" as "Ruth Martin," since the character's inception played by as "Mary Fickett, who eventually retired.
gymnastix 4 years ago
The first adult "Hope" was played by Robin Mattson, who has been a much sought-after actress on many a soap. She has been on "Santa Barbara" and played the deliciously evil-turned-good role of "Janet Green Dillon" on "All My Children" for a few years, after Kate Collins left the role (actually, Colins got to do the "evil twin" bit, also playing "Natalie Hunter Dillon").
gymnastix 4 years ago
She then came to "Guiding Light," playing "Hope" from '68-'73, with Don Stewart as father "Mike," Stewart playing that role the longest, for 16 years! Leeds-Fickman went on to do many guest roles on TV & films, including "All In The Family," "Barnaby Jones" & "Charley's Angels," is now a talent agent.
gymnastix 4 years ago
Yes, but "Julie" was "Hope's" mother. The second "Hope," who played the role for five years, was great--a very natural & convincing child actress by the name of Elissa Leeds (now Leeds-Fickman), who also played the same role with the actor (Gary Pilar) then playing "Mike Bauer," on "Another World," in the first soap "crossover" storyline from 1966-68.
gymnastix 4 years ago
In the 1953 clips, Bert was kind of mean and selfish. She also didn't semm to like Meta very much. I see that by 1966 she became the Bert I remember. The grandchild she mentions in this clip is probably Hope, who went on to marry Alan Spaulding and give birth to Alan-Michael.
JrsyBarry 5 years ago
Hope is Bert's grandchild? Who are Hope's parents?
heathermoire 5 years ago
Hope's parents are Mike Bauer (Bert's son, Ed's brother) and his wife Julie Conrad Bauer. I believe Julie died while Hope was a baby, so she was raised by Mike, Bert, and Mike's new wife Leslie (after she divorced his brother Ed, lol).
OceanKingNY 5 years ago
Thank you so much!
heathermoire 5 years ago