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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 362055" data-attributes="member: 27">The article mentions &quot;Jo and Stu&#039;s children&quot; as if they had children together....no, they were just dear friends for the entire 35-year run of that show.&nbsp; I can imagine Head Writers of that show pitching stories to pair them romantically, but luckily no one ever allowed that to happen.Larry Haines&#039;s Stu Bergman had been paired with Melba Rae&#039;s Marge for twenty years when, in 1971, Rae died on set (during a commercial break) from a cerebral hemorrhage.&nbsp; They had to finish the episode (it was still live back then), and then kill off the character a while later.&nbsp; Eric Shawn, the longtime Fox News anchor and reporter, was doing a story about some celebrity (I think it was Natasha Richardson) who had died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage, and he mentioned in passing that his mother had died similarly...which was how I found out Shawn was Melba Rae&#039;s son.In the early years of the show, Jo had a child that the writers decided to kill off.&nbsp; Mary Stuart (Jo) rightly objected, reminding the writers that the core audience were young mothers, and such a story would horrify them.&nbsp; The writers decided they knew better...so Stuart made her feelings known by playing the death scenes of her TV child in the most raw, horrific way possible.&nbsp; Normally, women in soaps back then were very reserved, proper, and subdued even as terrible things happened to their characters, with nary a hair out of place or a smudge in their makeup.&nbsp; Well, her acting choices went out live to the nation, and Mary Stuart made sure viewers remembered those episodes in the most negative way possible.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 362055, member: 27"] The article mentions "Jo and Stu's children" as if they had children[I] together....[/I]no, they were just dear friends for the entire 35-year run of that show. I can imagine Head Writers of that show pitching stories to pair them romantically, but luckily no one ever allowed that to happen. Larry Haines's Stu Bergman had been paired with Melba Rae's Marge for twenty years when, in 1971, Rae died on set (during a commercial break) from a cerebral hemorrhage. They had to finish the episode (it was still live back then), and then kill off the character a while later. Eric Shawn, the longtime Fox News anchor and reporter, was doing a story about some celebrity (I think it was Natasha Richardson) who had died suddenly from a cerebral hemorrhage, and he mentioned in passing that his mother had died similarly...which was how I found out Shawn was Melba Rae's son. In the early years of the show, Jo had a child that the writers decided to kill off. Mary Stuart (Jo) rightly objected, reminding the writers that the core audience were young mothers, and such a story would horrify them. The writers decided they knew better...so Stuart made her feelings known by playing the death scenes of her TV child in the most raw, horrific way possible. Normally, women in soaps back then were very reserved, proper, and subdued even as terrible things happened to their characters, with nary a hair out of place or a smudge in their makeup. Well, her [I]acting choices[/I] went out live to the nation, and Mary Stuart made sure viewers remembered those episodes in the most negative way possible. [/QUOTE]

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