Rae Cummings
| Rae Cummings | |||||||||||||||||||
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| One Life to Live character | |||||||||||||||||||
| Commercial bumper of Linda Dano as Rae Cummings | |||||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Linda Dano | ||||||||||||||||||
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| First appearance | 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Last appearance | March 12, 2004 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Classification | Former, regular | ||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Gordon Russell | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Crossover appearances | All My Children General Hospital Port Charles | ||||||||||||||||||
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Rae Cummings is a fictional character on the ABC daytime soap opera One Life to Live . Linda Dano played the role from 1978 to 1980, from June 28 to November 1999, and from May 2000 to March 12, 2004.
Casting and awards
[edit ]Gretel Rae Cummings was originated by Linda Dano from 1978 to 1980.[3] [4] Dano went on to appear on CBS's As the World Turns and on NBC's Another World until that series' cancellation on June 25, 1999.[5] On June 28, 1999, Dano returned to One Life to Live as Rae.[6] [5] Anna Stuart filled in for Dano on April 25, 2002.[4] Dano was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Supporting Actress in 2003,[7] and left One Life to Live on March 13, 2004.[4] [5]
After playing Felicia Gallant on Another World, Dano was not looking forward to playing a character named Gretel, which she felt sounded less glamorous. She and the producers of One Life to Live reached a compromise where Gretel would now be using her middle name, Rae.[8] It was later revealed on One Life to Live that Gretel had stolen the credentials of a man named Ray Cummings, and had been practicing psychology without a valid license.[8]
ABC crossovers
[edit ]In a move designed to "entice viewers to tune into soap operas that they might not have usually watched," in 2000, then-president of ABC Daytime Angela Shapiro orchestrated Dano's concurrent appearance as Rae Cummings on the three other ABC daytime dramas at the time — All My Children , General Hospital , and Port Charles — in an extended crossover storyline, which was the first time a daytime character had appeared on four series.[6] [9] [10]
References
[edit ]- ^ Stated on-air on All My Children on February 23, 2000.
- ^ "The Cummings Family Tree".
- ^ Warner, Gary (1998). One Life to Live: Thirty Years of Memories. Hyperion. p. 49. ISBN 978-0786863679.
- ^ a b c "Who's Who in Llanview: Rae Cummings". SoapCentral.com. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
- ^ a b c Angulo, Sandra P. (June 25, 1999). "Soap Dish". Entertainment Weekly . EW.com. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
- ^ a b Kroll, Dan J. (December 29, 2003). "OLTL News: Dano's Run as ABC's Rae About to End". SoapCentral.com. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
- ^ "Daytime Emmy Winners & Nominees: 2003". SoapOperaDigest.com. Archived from the original on May 27, 2006. Retrieved February 18, 2009.
- ^ a b Waggett, Gerry (2008). The One Life to Live 40th Anniversary Trivia Book. Hyperion. p. 161. ISBN 9781401323097.
- ^ Kroll, Dan J. (April 1, 2002). "Angela Shapiro to Leave ABC Daytime Post". SoapCentral.com. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
- ^ Kroll, Dan J. (November 12, 2003). "AMC News: ABC Plans AMC, OLTL Crossovers". SoapCentral.com. Retrieved February 19, 2009.
External links
[edit ]- "Character Biography: Rae Cummings (Linda Dano)". ABC.com (Internet Archive). Archived from the original on February 13, 2006. Retrieved February 13, 2006.
- Rae Cummings profile - SoapCentral.com