Julia Ann "Julie" Harris (December 2, 1925 – August 24, 2013)

NEW YORK (AP) –  Julie Harris, one of Broadway’s most honored
performers, whose roles ranged from the flamboyant Sally Bowles
in "I Am a Camera" to the reclusive Emily Dickinson in "The Belle
of Amherst," died Saturday. 

Harris died at her West Chatham, Mass. home of congestive heart
failure, according actress and family friend Francesca James.

Harris won a record five Tony Awards for best actress in a play,
displaying a virtuosity that enabled her to portray an astonishing
gallery of women during a theater career that spanned almost 60
years and included such plays as "The Member of the Wedding"
(1950), "The Lark" (1955), "Forty Carats" (1968) and "The Last
of Mrs. Lincoln" (1972).
 
Television viewers knew Harris as the free-spirited Lilimae Clements
on the prime-time soap opera "Knots Landing." In the movies, she
was James Dean’s romantic co-star in "East of Eden" (1955), and
had rolls in such films as "Requiem for a Heavyweight" (1962), and
"The Haunting" (1963).  

 The Guiding Light is a television soap opera that is credited by the Guinness
Book of World Records as the longest-running television drama in history, airing
from 1952 until 2009, preceded by a 15-year broadcast on radio. It stands as
the third longest-running program in all of broadcast history.

On April 1, 2009, CBS canceled Guiding Light due to low ratings, ending its 72-
year run. The show taped the last scenes on August 11, 2009, and its final
episode was broadcast September 18, 2009.

Cast members from the early days of ‘The Guiding Light’ are from left:
Ellen Demming, Theo Goetz, and Charita Bauer.  

March 4, 1953

Sandy Kozel

 
   
                   Jeanne Cooper (Wilma Jeanne Cooper)  

                       (October 25, 1928 – May 8, 2013) 
 

Cooper is best known for her Emmy Award winning role as Katherine
Chancellor on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless
(1973-2013). She was one of the longest-serving serial television
actors in America. Cooper became ill due to an infection shortly
after a round of promotion for the 40th anniversary of The Young
and the Restless. 

The Ewing’s

Dallas premiered as a five-part miniseries on CBS, followed by a thirteen season
run until May 3, 1991. The prime time soap was included in Time magazine’s
2007 list of “100 Best TV Shows of All Time”.