DC #278: Performer of the Week

I must agree wholeheartedly with Michelle Ray Smith as "Ava" on Guiding Light, too.

As great as Zimmer, Newman, Lawrence St. Victor and Daniel Cosgrove were (the latter two doing some of the best work of their careers), Smith was phenomenal in her scenes from the birth of Baby Max to her rapid, even terrifying descent into postpartum depression. I've always been a supporter of Smith, an actress who during her time on the show has had to contend with writers who had no vision for her character and thus the illusion that Smith was to blame. But I always felt that she had the goods and, boy oh boy, did she deliver big time in her final sequence of scenes. She made Ava's anguish heartbreaking turn very real and I applaud her for doing a fantastic job.

Honorables to Daniel Cosgrove and Lawerence St. Victor, as well. Outstanding, realistic, heartrending work by both actors.

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THE EDGE OF NIGHT: 2008 - Hi-Octane Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oA5DbWdX8IA

I think susan somehting like this "Casy is a nuaghty boy, you should spack him... "
GL/AMC/ATWT/GH/B&B/Y&R Fans!!!!!!!!!

@ Revafan001:

I think it was more like this:

He's a bad boy. You should spank him. Maybe you already have...?

LOL! The way Marie Masters delivered that line was brilliant!