All My Children: Cliff and Angie get engaged. First soap opera interracial couple

First interracial couple in All My Children, 1990

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• all my children
• angie
• cliff
• 1990
• interracial couple

[ilar926]

 It was so obviously a reaction to the racists because all of this took place within a 2 week span, from the Angie/Cliff breakup to his remarrying Nina for the 4th or 5th time. It was also around this time that Peter Bergman was suddenly fired from AMC, after many years and his wife was pregnant. he had the last laugh though because he was picked up right away by Y&R to replace Terry Lester and won his first of many Lead Actor Emmy's right away.

[writefic]

I wonder if they'll repair the actors now that Debbie Morgan is joining Y & R.

[ohsopsycho]

what about Tom and Simone GH around 1988 or so

[gigga143]

@ilar926 you know Debbi talked about that in an interview recently, saying that they received alot of hate mail so they both knew Angie & Cliff were going to be broken up & one of them would lose their job. she said she expected it to be her & was surprised when it ended up being Peter. she said he called her before his Y&R audition and she said she told him not to walk but to "F-ing run" LOL & that she knew it would be a role of a lifetime for her. it would be nice to see them paired on Y&R.

[annie24ism]

I had forgotten about Angie+ Cliff 's Romance thanks for posting it .

[ilar926]

Yes, Tom and Simone on GH were actually the first interracial front burner couple to get married on a soap. I say front burner because I do recall another couple on GH, years before--maybe the 70's that got married before leaving the show but they were only on for a few months and probably non-contract. It was one of thse minor storylines--A blck female doctor and a White male patient, who was blind. Don't remember all of the story details, around the time of the Jane and Howie Dawson story.

[ilar926]

They ended Cliff and Angie by bringing Nina back to town all of a sudden, with a sick baby who needed cliff's expertise. They also had Nina all of a sudden decide that Cliff was the baby's father (not Matt, who she had the affair with and married). They also wrote it so that Angie took the high road and "GAVE" him back to Nina--his "true love", so she broke up with him. I had rooted for their reunion the 3 or 4 times after Nina broke his heart but the last time was the final straw.

[ilar926]

@jebeja I remember David and Valerie during the mid-70's on DOOL. They let the racists dictate that story, also and ended them by having David sleep with his cousin Mike's girlfriend Trish (?) after Mike and Trish fought. Then Valerie went off to medical school and broke up with David.

[jebeja]

What about Valerie and David on 'Day of our Lives' during the seventies? Wonderful chemistry.

[marrianna1028]

Angie and Cliff look better than Angie and Jesse. They should at least let them get arried. They let racists run the show and not love or what they want to do. I think that why PB leave the show. They wanted LIvia and Tom and Angie and Cliff as the interracial super couples of the 90s -. Televison shows need to stop racists people run their shows.