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    ‘GH’ Star Denise Alexander Dies: Genie Francis Remembers TV Mother

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    Denise Alexander, finest identified for enjoying Common Hospital‘s Lesley Webber, died on March 5 at 85.

    Born in New York Metropolis on November 11, 1939, and raised on Lengthy Island, Alexander started appearing as a toddler, showing as Perry Como‘s daughter in Perry Como’s Chesterfield Supper Membership in 1949 and different primetime sequence within the Fifties and ’60s, together with Father Is aware of Greatest, The Danny Thomas Present, and The Twilight Zone.

    She made her first characteristic movie, Crime within the Streets, starring John Cassavetes, at 14, and did her fair proportion of radio work from the age of 6, telling We Love Soaps TV in 2010, “My dad, at one level, counted up the quantity I had accomplished, and it was 2,500 radio reveals. You’ll get out of faculty and go from one present to the following. They have been 15-minute or half-hour reveals, and you’ll sit across the desk, learn the script, rehearse a few instances, and do it. Then you definitely have been out of there and onto the following one. And typically it was within the subsequent studio. I did far more than folks know I did.”

    Denise Alexander - 'General Hospital'

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    Alexander made her cleaning soap opera debut as Lois Adams on The Clear Horizon in 1960, however her massive break got here in 1966 when she was forged as Susan Hunter Martin on Days of Our Lives whereas nonetheless attending school at UCLA. As Susan, Alexander performed a bunch of dramatic tales, together with murdering her husband David Martin (performed by Clive Clerk) in Might 1967 after the loss of life of their son.

    “She began out because the unhealthy lady and was thrown out of boarding faculty for smoking and ingesting,” recalled Alexander to We Love Soaps TV. “The character caught on and sparked one thing with the viewers, and that’s how Susan grew to become an necessary a part of the present. I used to be there for nearly seven years…. I had such a beautiful time on Days. It was like going to camp day-after-day for me. I liked the folks, liked the present, and liked what I acquired to do. They liked the character and preferred me as an actor and gave me a lot of neat stuff to do. I didn’t even ask for a trip for 5 years as a result of if I labored 12 months a yr, I believed I used to be nice. It was an excellent time in my life.”

    Denise Alexander, Julie Berman, Greg Vaughan, Genie Francis, Anthony Geary, Tyler Christopher - 'General Hospital'

    Everett Assortment

    In 1973, Alexander was in contract negotiations with Days when ABC supplied important perks to the actress to hitch Common Hospital to play Dr. Lesley Williams. Although Alexander liked her time in Salem, she determined to go away. “It was [Days’ Executive Producer] Betty Corday who despatched me to Common Hospital,” Alexander instructed welovesoaps.web. “She mentioned, ‘You should do that.’ So after I went to Common Hospital, they didn’t have a personality for me. That they had a personality that was coming in, a lady physician who was going to have a romance with John Beradino [Steve Hardy]. And that was clearly improper for me or for John, however they took the character and a few scripts of her arrival they’d written and needed to scramble to create a storyline.”

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    Alexander discovered nice success within the function, incomes a Daytime Emmy Award in 1975, famously changing into the mom of Laura Vining (Genie Francis) and foster mother to Blackie Parrish (John Stamos), and was a star participant within the present’s rise to primary, thanks, partly, to the torrid Lesley, Rick Webber (Chris Robinson), and Monica Quartermaine (Leslie Charleson) triangle. In a 2010 interview with Cleaning soap Opera Digest, Alexander famous, I all the time say this, and I hope Leslie Charleson does, too: The primary time that Common Hospital ever went to primary in our period, it was on the Lesley/Rick/Monica storyline. It wasn’t Luke (Anthony Geary) and Laura. They went farther than anybody dreamed attainable, after all, however that was an enormous triangle again then.” Lesley was killed off the cleaning soap in 1984, solely to be resurrected in 1996, when she recurred till 2009. She appeared once more in 2013, 2017, 2019, and 2021.

    In an unique interview with TV Insider, Francis seems to be again on her relationship with Alexander. “I liked her. She liked me,” she says. “I stole her good things. Once I have a look at myself typically on tv, which I don’t do actually because I don’t actually like to look at myself, however I’ve seen myself do stuff and been form of shocked as a result of I spotted I simply did Denise. So after I say I stole her good things, I’m saying I used to be so younger, she imprinted on me. And a few of my appearing, a few of my model of appearing, was straight imprinted on me by Denise Alexander. And he or she was very, superb to me as I used to be rising up.”

    Craig Heubing, Genie Ann Francis, Mike Gregory, Denise Alexander, John Beradino - 'General Hospital'

    Everett Assortment

    Alexander gave Francis a cherished memento that holds particular which means. “She truly gave me this beautiful necklace,” Francis relays. “It’s like a little bit angel that’s standing on a cloud, and it’s on a pearl. It was a allure, and I wore it on a regular basis. After which when my daughter wished to develop into an actress when she was younger, I mentioned, ‘You’ve acquired to have your good luck allure.’ So I mentioned, ‘I’m going to present you this little angel that’s been worn by two actresses, and now it’s yours.’ And so [daughter] Eliza [Frakes] has that, and it’s necessary to her too. And after I instructed Denise that, she cried. She was so excited to listen to that what she had given me, I gave to my daughter.”

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    Alexander is survived by a stepdaughter, Elizabeth Colla, from her marriage to the late Richard A. Colla.





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