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4 unusual facts about The Edge of Night


Chérie Carter-Scott

While working at the Public Theatre, Cherie had the opportunity to work in Soap Operas such as Search for Tomorrow and The Edge of Night.

Millette Alexander

Alexander is also remembered for playing three different characters on The Edge of Night in the 1950s and 1960s.

Nancy Pinkerton

Pinkerton had previously appeared on The Edge of Night as Beth Moon Anderson Barnes from 1963 to 1967 and as Karen MacMillan on Somerset from 1970 to 1972.

Richard Shoberg

After leaving Somerset he returned to daytime as the Kevin Jameson #1 on The Edge of Night from 1972 to 1975.


Frances Heflin

Their children include Jonathan Kaplan, a film director; Nora Heflin, whose stage and film credits include Chilly Scenes of Winter; and Mady Kaplan, an actress who appeared on the soap operas The Edge of Night, Texas, and As the World Turns.

From These Roots

The show was seen on NBC, and was the first successful soap opera vehicle for Ann Flood who later became well known for, and spend the better part of two decades as, Nancy Karr on The Edge of Night.

Jayne Bentzen

Jayne Bentzen (born August 8, 1955 in Evansville, Indiana) is an American actress and former model, best known for her role as "Nicole Travis Drake Cavanaugh" on the soap opera The Edge of Night, a role she assumed in 1978 after the departure of actress, Maeve McGuire.

Robert Gerringer

Robert Gerringer also appeared in the movie The Exorcist and in other soap operas including The Guiding Light, Texas, in which he played Houston attorney Striker Bellman; and The Edge of Night.


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Ann Flood

Before starting on The Edge of Night, she played another journalist, Elizabeth "Liz" Fraser Allen in the short-lived soap From These Roots from 1958-61.