Guiding Light 4 minute tribute- Daytime Emmys

Guiding Light Tribute 4 Minute Version for Daytime Emmy Awards (Not Aired) - By Michael Fairman- for more log onto www.michaelfairmansoaps.com

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[everydayrebellions]

How do you now highlight Beverlee McKinsey's remarkable work as Alexandra Spaulding is beyond me.

[soapinterviews]

GL Only provided me with One shot of Beverlee McKinsey and that is why you only see her once and not spotlighted. I asked and this was all they could deliver.

Hope that answers your inquiry

[Oakdalian]

That flatline sound at the end really twists the knife!

[TVFanatic88]

This video is much better than the 1:30 video they showed. For the longest running drama and the reason why soaps have made it this far, they deserved a much better send off on TV. And Memories by Bon Jovi was a much better song choice than Rhianna's song. Anyways GL will be missed.

[BeautifulTrainwreyck]

@sneezyize I saw that clip.....why did he rape his own wife?

[TimsDale4ever]

There's that storyline again at 1.36 where Roger raped Holly. I was 19 at the time and remember how shocking it was to watch this. I think GL moved out of its "grandmother's soap" imagine after this amazing storyline. It earned a daytime emmy for best show in 1980, and because the show stayed so extraordinarily well put together pulled off another win in the best show category in 1982-- just 2 years later. GH on ABC was through the roof during that time also. Daytime was on fire back then!

[TimsDale4ever]

@Dirkpowers69 It was on the network for 57 years - not 70. People really shouldn't combine the 15 radio years and the 57 television years as they were really 2 different shows, and the radio show and the TV show actually continued to run at the same time with different storylines as well as differentr characters. They just weren't the same shows -- they just happen to have the same title.

[laminage]

They should have said "Daytime's First Integrated Soap" and show the alumnae that started on the show. Billy Dee Williams, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Ruby Dee, Angela Basset, Sharon Leal, Taye Diggs, Kevin Mambo, and Nia Long.

[sneezyize]

@sneezyize Holly was played brilliantly and wonderfully by Maureen Garrett (as Holly from 1976 to 80 and then again from 1988 to 2006 and a two episode return in 2009.)

[sneezyize]

@BeautifulTrainwreyck That lady isn't actually chubby. It's the outfit, blouse she was wearing, fashionable at the time the scene was shot & the way late great Michael Zaslow (Roger Thorpe) was dragging during one of most important (and for many daytime, as well as GL fans) episodes in history of the medium, March 5, 1979 martial rape scene where husband Roger Thorpe raped Holly Norris Bauer Thorpe.

[sneezyize]

@sneezyize Parker did make some special appearances after Mo's death, but many GL fans considered her death to mark the beginning of the end for GL (me included) because in her death GL lost it's main tent pole character post Bert Bauer's departure in 1984 and then death in 1986 -- it certainly marked the end for the show of much of the influence of the Bauer family which had been the main family on the show since before it's television debut in 1952 -- they had been on radio since 1947.

[sneezyize]

@Joaquin1962 That was Ellen Parker (still alive, so that could be a 'is' not a 'was') who played Maureen "Mo" Reardon Bauer #2 (#1 for that character was Ellen Dolan, 1982 - 86.) That scene was the last time we would see Mo alive in January 1993, at the Bauer cabin, before she ran off and she accidentally ran her car off a cliff during an ice/snow storm. Parker won her Emmy due to those scenes, which was a real shame because Parker had been such a wonderful part of the show since 1986.

[Joaquin1962]

Who's the actress/character at 1:22...the one who says, "Trust?" etc. with Peter Simon (Ed Bauer)?

[BeautifulTrainwreyck]

Who is the cute chubby lady at 1:36?