So after the honeymoon, Betsy was in a car crash and presumed dead. Our executive producer was more rational and explained that soap opera couples usually only get two weeks of marital bliss because happily married couples on soaps are boring. Our head writer was in tears Meg could go but she refused to kill Betsy. They were finally about to marry when Hollywood called: They wanted Meg. It had taken years for Betsy and her beloved Steve, played by Frank Runyeon, to overcome their many obstacles.
DAYS OF MY LIFE SOAP MOVIE
Meg Ryan, a journalism student at NYU, had just debuted in a small role in the movie Rich and Famous and she was was hired to play Betsy as the female lead in what is known in soap speak as a supercouple. I thought it doesn’t get better than that. I was thrilled! My words would come alive on national television for the millions of viewers who tuned in every day. At the time, there were fourteen soap operas on television and As The World Turns, which had been on the air since 1956, was one of the longest running.
“Welcome to your world as a soap writer,” said the head writer of As The World Turns, when she asked me to join her writing staff in the early 1980’s after two years as her assistant. When Meg Ryan got a film offer in Hollywood, the head writer was in tears and refused to kill her character.īetsy (Meg Ryan) and Steve (Frank Runyeon) a supercouple in “As the World Turns,” 1982 to 84.
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