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“The Young and the Restless” actress Judith Chapman (Gloria Fisher) is set to direct two productions at the Palm Canyon Theatre in Palm Springs, California this fall.

First up is the stage production of “Shunned,” a play by Larry Parr that provides audiences with a realistic portrait of Amish life and philosophy, and the problems facing the community in today’s world, including growing pressure to adapt to changing technologies and curiosity from tourists about how they live their lives.

Janice Lynde

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Janice Lynde takes on the poignant role of Katherine Yoder, as she brings an exceptional presence to the evocative production that lifts the veil on Amish life, highlighting the universal feeling of isolation faced by its characters.

Each performance invites a dialogue about marginalized experiences, challenging societal norms and prompting reflection on the impacts of exclusion.

“Shunned” performance dates are Friday, October 4 at 8:00 p.

The Young and the Restless is bringing back an original cast member, with her appearance the first she’ll make on the daytime soap opera since 2018. Janice Lynde will be reprising her role as world-renowned pianist Leslie Brooks when she makes a return visit to the soap. She will be appearing in multiple episodes in the middle of October. Will we see her playing piano and singing again? We can never assume anything on a soap. Lynde was first seen as Leslie in the first episode of The Young and the Restless in 1973. She went on to appear in five other episodes in 1973, 1975, and 1979. She was last seen on the daytime soap in 2018, for the show’s 45th anniversary. In addition to her role on Y&r, Lynde appeared on other daytime soaps including Another World (as ...

1979: Ryan's Hope's Delia threated Johnny.

1980: Y&R's Leslie wanted to remember a secret from her past.

1991: As the World Turns' Ellen found out her husband had died.

1996: All My Children's Julia was visited by her Fairy Godmother."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."

― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"

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1950: On radio soap opera The Guiding Light, Ted White (James Monk) told his wife, Meta (Jone Allison), he didn't think she...

Next Monday, March 26, will mark 45 years since The Young and the Restless premiered. To mark the milestone, television's most-watched daytime drama is treating viewers to a week of epic episodes full of high-stakes drama, romance and compelling character returns.

"The Young and the Restless will celebrate its 45th anniversary by proudly looking back at the rich history of the show while propelling our characters into exciting new stories," said executive producer and head writer Mal Young. "Viewers will be treated to a week-long, can't-miss-a-minute celebration as storylines take unexpected turns and we welcome faces from the past."

During the week of March 26-30, fans can expect a number of buzzworthy developments. Among them:

• The long-running feud between Victor Newman (Eric Braeden) and Jack Abbott (Peter Bergman) reaches its breaking point, irrevocably changing the lives of both men.

• Ashley Abbott (Eileen Davidson) and her daughter, Abby (Melissa Ordway), uncover a shocking secret.

CBS’ The Young and the Restless will celebrate its 45th anniversary during the week of Monday, March 26 “by proudly looking back at the rich history of the show while propelling our characters into exciting new stories,” executive producer Mal Young shared in a statement. “Viewers will be treated to a week-long, can’t-miss-a-minute celebration as storylines take unexpected turns and we welcome faces from the past.”

The long-running sudser also release a nostalgia-filled promo (above) plus a sneak peek at two returns (below).

Among the anniversary week happenings, the long-running feud between Victor and Jack reaches its breaking point (shades...

CBS Daytime is keeping original content coming for fans during the line-up’s two-day preemption for Ncaa March Madness. The network will debut custom short-form video on the individual show’s Facebook pages on Thursday March 15 and Friday March 16, including:

The Bold and the Beautiful joins fans in wondering 'Who's Out To Get Bill Spencer' with an examination of the mystery’s biggest suspects – and their motives. Launches Thursday, March 15 at Noon Et / 9:00 am Pt at https://www.facebook.com/TheBoldandtheBeautiful/.

The Young and the Restless offers a special preview into the series upcoming 45th anniversary with a look at the show’s returning guest stars, including Jaime Lyn Bauer (Lorie Brooks), Janice Lynde (Leslie Brooks), Kelly Kruger (Mackenzie Browning Hellstrom), Meg Bennett (Julia Newman Martin) and more! Debuts Friday, March 16 at Noon Et / 9:00 am Pt at https://www.facebook.com/TheYoungandtheRestless/.

The Talk launches its first-ever webisodes,...

The Young and the Restless is bringing back even more familiar faces for its 45th anniversary celebration.

Daytime Emmy winner David Lago (who played Raul Guittierez), Lauren Woodland (who played Brittany Hodges) and Kelly Kruger (who played Mackenzie Browning) all are set to return to the CBS soap opera this March, according to SoapOperaDigest.com and SoapsInDepth.com.

As previously reported, Y&R alumni Jaime Lyn Bauer and Janice Lynde will reprise their roles as Lorie and Leslie Brooks, while Meg Bennett will be returning for the special occasion as Julia Newman.

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A few familiar faces are returning to The Young and the Restless. Entertainment Weekly reports Jaime Lyn Bauer, Janice Lynde, and Meg Bennett will reprise their roles on the CBS TV show in March.Bauer and Lynde originated the roles of Lorie and Leslie Brooks, respectively, in 1973. While Lynde left the soap opera in 1977, Bauer remained until the 1980s and reprised her role in 2002. Meg Bennett began playing Julia Newman in 1980 and most recently appeared on The Young and the Restless in 2002.Read More…...

As part of the 45th anniversary week celebration for The Young and the Restless, actors David Scott Lago and Kelly Kruger are headed back to Genoa City as Raul and Mac.

Lago first played the role of Raul from 1999-2004, then again in 2009. Kruger portrayed Mac from 2002-2003.

The duo joins Jaime Lyn Bauer (Lorie Brooks), Janice Lynde (Leslie Brooks) and Meg Bennett (Julia Newman), whose returns were announced on Wednesday.

Three familiar faces are returning to Genoa City next month, just in time to celebrate The Young and the Restless‘ 45th anniversary.

Jaime Lyn Bauer and Janice Lynde will reprise the roles of Lorie and Leslie Brooks, respectively, Entertainment Weekly reports, while Meg Bennett will also be returning as Julia Newman. All three actresses will appear during the week of March 26 and begin filming their episodes today.

Bauer, whose original run on the CBS soap lasted from 1973 to 1982, was last seen in Genoa City in 2002. Lynde, also on board from the series’ inception, hasn’t been seen in town since...

To celebrate its 45th anniversary, CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless is bringing back original cast members Jaime Lyn Bauer and Janice Lynde, who starred as Lorie and Leslie Brooks when the show premiered in 1973. Lynde stayed with the series until 1977, while Bauer continued until 1982 with appearances in 1984 and 2002. According to EW.com, Meg Bennett will also reappear as Victor's ex-wife, Julia Newman.

All three actresses are scheduled to appear during the week of March 26. They begin taping their episodes today at the Y&R studio in Los Angeles.

Are you as excited about the returns of the Brooks sisters as I am?...

Updated: Following a couple of Julie London Westerns*, Turner Classic Movies will return to its July 2017 Star of the Month presentations. On July 27, Ronald Colman can be seen in five films from his later years: A Double Life, Random Harvest (1942), The Talk of the Town (1942), The Late George Apley (1947), and The Story of Mankind (1957). The first three titles are among the most important in Colman's long film career. George Cukor's A Double Life earned him his one and only Best Actor Oscar; Mervyn LeRoy's Random Harvest earned him his second Best Actor Oscar nomination; George Stevens' The Talk of the Town was shortlisted for seven Oscars, including Best Picture. All three feature Ronald Colman at his very best. The early 21st century motto of international trendsetters, from Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro and Turkey's Recep Erdogan to Russia's Vladimir Putin and the United States' Donald Trump, seems to be, The world is reality TV and reality TV...

Director Steve Sekely’s hardboiled film noir leans heavily on the talents of star-producer Paul Henreid and camera ace John Alton — the three of them whip up the best gimmick-driven noir thriller of the late ‘forties. Strained coincidences and unlikely events mean nothing when this much talent is concentrated in one movie. It’s also a terrific show for star Joan Bennett, who expresses all the disappointment, despair and angst of a noir femme who knows she’s in for more misery.

The Scar (Hollow Triumph)

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1948 / B&W / 1:37 flat Academy / 83 min. / Street Date April 18, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95

Starring: Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, Eduard Franz, Leslie Brooks, John Qualen, Mabel Paige, Herbert Rudley, George Chandler, Robert Bice, Henry Brandon, Franklyn Farnum, Thomas Browne Henry, Norma Varden, Jack Webb.

Cinematography: John Alton

Film Editor: Fred Allen

Original Music: Sol Kaplan

Written by Daniel Fuchs from a...

Rex Ingram in 'The Thief of Bagdad' 1940 with tiny Sabu. Actor Rex Ingram movies on TCM: Early black film performer in 'Cabin in the Sky,' 'Anna Lucasta' It's somewhat unusual for two well-known film celebrities, whether past or present, to share the same name.* One such rarity is – or rather, are – the two movie people known as Rex Ingram;† one an Irish-born white director, the other an Illinois-born black actor. Turner Classic Movies' “Summer Under the Stars” continues today, Aug. 11, '15, with a day dedicated to the latter. Right now, TCM is showing Cabin in the Sky (1943), an all-black musical adaptation of the Faust tale that is notable as the first full-fledged feature film directed by another Illinois-born movie person, Vincente Minnelli. Also worth mentioning, the movie marked Lena Horne's first important appearance in a mainstream motion picture.§ A financial disappointment on the...

Fred Astaire ca. 1935. Fred Astaire movies: Dancing in the dark, on the ceiling on TCM Aug. 5, '15, is Fred Astaire Day on Turner Classic Movies, as TCM continues with its “Summer Under the Stars” series. Just don't expect any rare Astaire movies, as the actor-singer-dancer's star vehicles – mostly Rko or MGM productions – have been TCM staples since the early days of the cable channel in the mid-'90s. True, Fred Astaire was also featured in smaller, lesser-known fare like Byron Chudnow's The Amazing Dobermans (1976) and Yves Boisset's The Purple Taxi / Un taxi mauve (1977), but neither one can be found on the TCM schedule. (See TCM's Fred Astaire movie schedule further below.) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals Some fans never tire of watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers dancing together. With these particular fans in mind, TCM is showing – for the nth time – nine Astaire-Rogers musicals of the '30s,...

Hell is Where the Home Is : Burns’ Dismally Heavy-handed Dark Comedy

Playing like the crass, harebrained sister of Gone Girl’s infidelity issued ‘hell hath no fury’ treatment like a you-know-what, Anthony Burns’ sophomore feature, Home Sweet Hell plays like a watered down knock-off on all variable fronts. Broadly drawn, familiar scenarios littered with quirky supporting characters comprise this crude lump of a movie, hewn from the burnt stump of privileged suburban malaise, a dish once perfected now over baked into mutations of vulgar shock effect. Surprisingly, however, the very aspect of the film that works against its own appeal happens to be the sole point of enjoyment. But it’s not enough to make the film worthwhile.

Don Champagne (Patrick Wilson) runs a semi-successful furniture store, employing Les (James Belushi), and recently, one additional employee, Dusty (Jordana Brewster). But Don is definitely not the king of his own castle,...

Blonde Ice

Written by Kenneth Gamet

Directed by Jack Bernhard

U.S.A., 1948

A wedding day is a joyous occasion to celebrate the unison between two people deeply in love with one another, ready and willing to spend the remainder of their lives together until death do them part. Claire Cummings’ (Leslie Brooks) understanding of what a wedding represents renounces most of those delightful thoughts, only retaining and applying the part about death. Claire is a vixen, a conniving, duplicitous witch who spends her energy on marrying wealthy, important people, only to concoct their demise shortly thereafter, reaping the benefits of fanciful wills in the process. Her matrimonial reunion to a powerful businessman in the film’s opening scene irks polite, clean-cut Les Burns (Robert Paige), with whom Claire to used to work at a newspaper. Deep down he loves Claire, naively unaware of her true intentions. When her hubby...

Cary Grant movies: 'An Affair to Remember' does justice to its title (photo: Cary Grant ca. late 1940s) Cary Grant excelled at playing Cary Grant. This evening, fans of the charming, sophisticated, debonair actor -- not to be confused with the Bristol-born Archibald Leach -- can rejoice, as no less than eight Cary Grant movies are being shown on Turner Classic Movies, including a handful of his most successful and best-remembered star vehicles from the late '30s to the late '50s. (See also: "Cary Grant Classic Movies" and "Cary Grant and Randolph Scott: Gay Lovers?") The evening begins with what may well be Cary Grant's best-known film, An Affair to Remember. This 1957 romantic comedy-melodrama is unusual in that it's an even more successful remake of a previous critical and box-office hit -- the Academy Award-nominated 1939 release Love Affair -- and that it was directed...

Glenda Farrell: Actress has her ‘Summer Under the Stars’ day Scene-stealer Glenda Farrell is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" star today, August 29, 2013. A reliable — and very busy — Warner Bros. contract player in the ’30s, the sharp, energetic, fast-talking blonde actress was featured in more than fifty films at the studio from 1931 to 1939. Note: This particular Glenda Farrell has nothing in common with the One Tree Hill character played by Amber Wallace in the television series. The Glenda Farrell / One Tree Hill name connection seems to have been a mere coincidence. (Photo: Glenda Farrell as Torchy Blane in Smart Blonde.) Back to Warners’ Glenda Farrell: TCM is currently showing Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939), one of the seven B movies starring Farrell as intrepid reporter Torchy Blane. Major suspense: Will Torchy win the election? She should. No city would ever go bankrupt with Torchy at the helm. Glenda Farrell...

Bette Davis movies: TCM schedule on August 14 (photo: Bette Davis in ‘Dangerous,’ with Franchot Tone) See previous post: “Bette Davis Eyes: They’re Watching You Tonight.” 3:00 Am Parachute Jumper (1933). Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Bette Davis, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Harold Huber, Leo Carrillo, Thomas E. Jackson, Lyle Talbot, Leon Ames, Stanley Blystone, Reginald Barlow, George Chandler, Walter Brennan, Pat O’Malley, Paul Panzer, Nat Pendleton, Dewey Robinson, Tom Wilson, Sheila Terry. Bw-72 mins. 4:30 Am The Girl From 10th Avenue (1935). Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Bette Davis, Ian Hunter, Colin Clive, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge, Phillip Reed, Katharine Alexander, Helen Jerome Eddy, Bill Elliott, Edward McWade, André Cheron, Wedgwood Nowell, John Quillan, Mary Treen. Bw-69 mins. 6:00 Am Dangerous (1935). Director: Alfred E. Green. Cast: Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay, Alison Skipworth, John Eldredge, Dick Foran, Walter Walker, Richard Carle, George Irving, Pierre Watkin, Douglas Wood,...

Doris Day movies: TCM’s ‘Summer Under the Stars 2013′ lineup continues (photo: Doris Day in ‘Calamity Jane’ publicity shot) Doris Day, who turned 89 last April 3, is Turner Classic Movies’ 2013 “Summer Under the Stars” star on Friday, August 2. (Doris Day, by the way, still looks great. Check out "Doris Day Today.") Doris Day movies, of course, are frequently shown on TCM. Why? Well, TCM is owned by the megaconglomerate Time Warner, which also happens to own (among myriad other things) the Warner Bros. film library, which includes not only the Doris Day movies made at Warners from 1948 to 1955, but also Day’s MGM films as well (and the overwhelming majority of MGM releases up to 1986). My point: Don’t expect any Doris Day movie rarity on Friday — in fact, I don’t think such a thing exists. Doris Day is ‘Calamity Jane’ If you haven’t watched David Butler’s musical...

Paul Henreid: Hollow Triumph aka The Scar tonight Turner Classic Movies’ Paul Henreid film series continues this Tuesday evening, July 16, 2013. Of tonight’s movies, the most interesting offering is Hollow Triumph / The Scar, a 1948 B thriller adapted by Daniel Fuchs (Panic in the Streets, Love Me or Leave Me) from Murray Forbes’ novel, and in which the gentlemanly Henreid was cast against type: a crook who, in an attempt to escape from other (and more dangerous) crooks, impersonates a psychiatrist with a scar on his chin. Joan Bennett, mostly wasted in a non-role, is Henreid’s leading lady. (See also: “One Paul Henreid, Two Cigarettes, Four Bette Davis-es.”) The thriller’s director is Hungarian import Steve Sekely, whose Hollywood career consisted chiefly of minor B fare. In fact, though hardly a great effort, Hollow Triumph was probably the apex of Sekely’s cinematic output in terms of prestige...