Daytime Confidential receives a lot of emails from readers and listeners asking questions about their favorite soaps. Because of the volume we aren't able to respond to each email individually but occasionally we are able to respond to them here on the blog.

Today's question comes from Daytime Confidential reader Sandy about the anticipated return of Genie Francis to General Hospital. Here at Daytime Confidential Regan writes some great General Hospital Spoilers so I asked her to respond to Sandy's question.

Sandy: Does anyone know if Denise Alexander is returning to GH when Genie Francis does?

Regan: To the best of our knowledge, no, Denise Alexander is not returning.  When the news of Genie's return was first reported, we started digging for details of her return.

At first it looked like Genie would only interact with Lulu, Laura's daughter to help tell the story of Logan's Murder, Lulu's slip from sanity and of course the comparison from mother to daughter.  Now there may be more to the story!   READ MORE

I found this tribute done by sandyatsea on You Tube and having just blogged about wanting her back on General Hospital in the "Nikolas' Free Clinic for Emily" storyline I wanted to share it with you all.

Accidents happen. The romance of a television lifetime was an accident. When feisty nursing student Bobbie Spencer called in her thug of a big brother, Luke, to help her get rid of rival for hunky law student Scott Baldwin's affections, the part was meant to be short term. Luke was supposed to get Laura's probation revoked so that she would be sent to reform school and then break up Rick and Leslie's marriage. A funny thing happened though. Chemistry sprung up between unlikely parties.

Anthony Geary, playing street tough Lucas Lorenzo Spencer, could have come and gone from the canvas without much fanfare, as could have Genie Francis as headstrong, spoiled princess Laura Webber. If someone behind the scenes at General Hospital had not recognized the overwhelming chemical reaction these two sparked when they were together on screen, that is exactly what probably would have happened.

Instead, they started a chain reaction that resonates down through the decades. The phenomenon known world wide as Luke and Laura might never have come to be if there had not been someone paying attention to what was coming across our television screens at home. The story played out in front of a fascinated audience that grew steadily as the magic built. READ MORE

Laura Webber is perhaps the most well known daytime character to ever grace our television screens. From the humble beginnings when her character was written as a complication for the reigning Daytime Television queen, Denise Alexander, to her triumphant return to our screens on October 26th, 2006 Laura has been a soap opera phenomenon—one often copied but never quite duplicated, before or since. In order to fully appreciate the rich texture and history of Genie Francis's Laura Spencer I have compiled a history of this fascinating, mercurial character.

Denise Alexander made her debut as Dr. Leslie Williams on General Hospital in 1973. She arrived as a private duty doctor to care for Meg Baldwin, (Lee's wife and Scott's mother) who was being released from the mental hospital. This didn't prove to be the best move to make, since Meg's mental illness manifested itself in the form of jealous rages over Lee and any human in a skirt. Meg went into total pre-nuclear meltdown in a jealous rage of the gorgeous Dr. and actually had a stroke and died! READ MORE