MFS's Interview with Morgan Fairchild and Friends

Check out and read and listen Michael Fairman's latest interview!! Fairchild talks B&B, and The City and Search for Tomorrow, as her fellow guest stars on B&B, Jim J. Bullock (Sergei), Alan Thicke (Rich) and Melissa Rivers chime in.

Excerpts:

MICHAEL: What is your character Dottie’s (short for Dorothy) objective on the show?
MORGAN: Well Dorothy’s objective is to get this fashion show in place because she thinks it going to be a great sale for her charity. She wants to do a big charity fundraiser and listen, I live out here in California and we all have seen people in Beverly Hills who are throwing events, and trying to find something new and novel that you can sell tickets on. So she gets the idea of getting these two acrimonious rivals to do a fashion showdown. I kept calling it a ‘smackdown’, but they would not go for it. Basically, she knows that this big face-off will sell tickets, and then I am the recipient of others peoples duplicities.

MICHAEL: You were on many daytime soap operas in your career: including Search for Tomorrow (Jennifer Pace) and The City (Sydney Chase). Do you see any difference to the soaps? Or, is it the same to you now as it was to you back then?

MORGAN: There are a lot of differences. When I stared on “SFT” in 1973, it was half hour show, and it was live to tape. Unless the set fell in on you, you were not stopping. I learned a few tricks that the older actors showed me. You learn more tricks, and that is where it was great for a kid starting out. I had grown up in the theatre. This was the first time I got to do television. The older actors back then, and especially in New York… everybody seemed to come from the theatre. So you were working with seasoned pros. Larry Haines (Stu) was on there… and Mary Stuart (Jo) and had been on forever. She had been a legend for that time period. John Cunningham (Wade), Michael Nouri, and Kevin Kline were also on. Kevin just got out of Julliard with my sister. So you are working with really good actors. So everybody is kind of winging it and learning. I told John McCook when I was doing “SFT” in New York, I would go into the control room on our lunch break everyday, and I would watch our show. “Y&R” came on just before or after that. I felt I knew John from playing Lance Prentiss. Some of the other actors on “SFT” would make fun of me and go, “Why are you watching the show?” I would watch what I did wrong. I learned so much by doing that. By the time I did The City things were a bit different in the way they shot.

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