RIP Dorothy Green
Cher
one day, which I know is untrue. The imdb also lists her as being a
dayplayer.
Can anyone confirm that she was a contract player?
tia
Cher
Dorothy Green
Guest performer on popular shows
Dorothy Green, 88, a television actress who made a career as a guest
performer on such popular prime-time series as "My Three Sons,"
"Marcus Welby, M.D." and "Ironside," died May 8 at her home in Los
Angeles of natural causes after suffering a heart attack, said her
granddaughter, Laurel Green.
She was best known as a dramatic actress who appeared on detective
series and westerns such as "Hopalong Cassidy" and "Gunsmoke." She
also had guest roles in lighter fare starting with five episodes of
"Disneyland" in the late 1950s and moving on to "The Love Boat" 30
years later.
Green dipped into daytime television in 1975 when she played Jennifer
Elizabeth Brooks in an episode of "The Young and the Restless."
"Dorothy Green was a journeyman actress," Hollywood publicist Dale
Olson said this week. "She was very competent. Dorothy was always
working."
Born Dorothy Hufford in Los Angeles on Jan. 12, 1920, she began her
acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse.
MarkH
Yes, she was a contract player, and she was on for several
years....I'd say 1973-1976 (until her character was killed off).
She played Jennifer Brooks, the matriarch of the show's inaugural
Brooks clan (wife of Stuart, mother of Leslie, Lorie, Chris, and
Peggy). I do not have strong impressions of her. During her time,
however, her character had cancer, and ended up having an affair with
her ex-lover and oncologist (do I have that right?). It was also
revealed that daughter Lorie was not biologically Stuart's child (she
was fathered by the lover/oncologist Bruce Henderseon). That wouldn't
have been a huge problem except Lorie had fallen in love with
Henderson's son...err...her half-brother. You'll notice that these
are plot points that Bill Bell recycled years later (Ashley is not
John's daughter; Cricket fell in love with her half-brother Scott;
Mackenzie fell in love with her cousin Billy).
Anway, my memory says that Jennifer died unexpectedly of a heart
attack...paving the way for Stuart to find new love with Liz Foster.
(That love would be perverted by Jill, who slept with Stuart and
pretended to be pregnant by him...all to get access to the Brooks'
fortune. Jill's angry relationship with Stuart was great fun, and
served as the template for her later divorce battle with John).
adogicou
Cher
Thanks for the reply. Funny how her granddaughter didn't know that
and we did. Oh well. YR was so good during her time.
Bunny
> Anway, my memory says that Jennifer died unexpectedly of a heart
> attack...paving the way for Stuart to find new love with Liz Foster.
> (That love would be perverted by Jill, who slept with Stuart and
> pretended to be pregnant by him...all to get access to the Brooks'
> fortune. Jill's angry relationship with Stuart was great fun, and
> served as the template for her later divorce battle with John).
Those were great days - Jill and Stuart.
They were great together chemisty-wise
I remember Stuart choking on something and Jill taking a
straight razor blade and hovering over him before the show
faded - then the voice - "Is Jill trying to kill Stuart, or save his
life? Stay tuned for the next episode of The Young and the
Restless".
Arrgghhh!!!
Okay, I won't leave you in suspense.
Next episode: Jill sliced his throat open and opened his trachea
beneath the blockage so he could breathe and saved his life.
I believe she was on the telephone getting direction to do so.
If anyone remembers better than me, please add.
Shirl
> Those were great days - Jill and Stuart.
> They were great together chemisty-wise
> I remember Stuart choking on something and Jill taking a
> straight razor blade and hovering over him before the show
> faded - then the voice - "Is Jill trying to kill Stuart, or save his
> life? Stay tuned for the next episode of The Young and the
> Restless".
> Arrgghhh!!!
> Okay, I won't leave you in suspense.
> Next episode: Jill sliced his throat open and opened his trachea
> beneath the blockage so he could breathe and saved his life.
> I believe she was on the telephone getting direction to do so.
>
> If anyone remembers better than me, please add.
Those WERE the days!
She was on the telephone getting directions to do the tracheotomy by
her brother, the doctor, Snapper. I don't remember the razor blade...I
thought it was a pen! ... maybe that was another show.
Shirl
startrek granny
a vague memory of hearing that she died in real life afte she died on
the show, did youever hear that ?
Rthrquiet
Definitely contract.
I wondered if the sentence in the obituary was just awkwardly worded.
"Green dipped into daytime television in 1975 when she played Jennifer
Elizabeth Brooks in an episode of 'The Young and the Restless' " maybe
was intended to mean something like "Her 1973 appearance in an episode
of 'The Young and the Restless' marked the beginning of a new phase in
her career, in which she dipped into daytime television."
Certainly nobody who was watching the show during those years could
have mistaken her for a day player.
Michael
MarkH
ah, it was both
The knife opened the throat, and the pen KEPT it open (like a
doorstop).
gentledb
MsLiz
wrote:
I didn't see the scene, but I think I've seen other shows were the
tube of a bic pen is inserted in the cut to allow air to flow in and
out, so perhaps you are both right.
I loved Sterwart and the original Jill.
MsLiz
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I never would have guessed! :-D