50’S STAR FARLEY GRANGER DEAD AT 85

Farley Granger, the handsome leading man who had a meteoric career in Hollywood in the late ’40s and early ’50s but became disillusioned with the studio system and ultimately found success performing in live television dramas in the ’60s and on Broadway in the ’70s and ’80s, died Sunday in New York at age 85. […]

EMMYS GALORE FOR “AS THE WORLD TURNS [OFF]”

Sunday’s 37th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards ceremonies turned out to be a bittersweet affair for the cast of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns, which ends its 54-year run on TV on September 17. Michael Park won the best actor award; Mara West, the best actress award; and Julie Pinson, the best supporting […]

ACTRESS WHO PLAYED SAME ROLE LONGEST DIES IN N.Y.

Helen Wagner, who held the record for playing the same role on television longer than anyone else — Nancy Hughes on CBS’s As the World Turns — has died in New York at age 91. Wagner spoke the first words on the soap opera on April 2, 1956. Her final appearance came on April 5, […]