

Her Los Angeles theater credits included Cyrano de Bergerac and Night of the Iguana (both with Chamberlain), The Time of the Cuckoo with Jean Stapleton and Ring Around the Moon with Michael York.Īlfred Hitchcock cast Conley in her first feature film, The Birds, and she worked with John Cassavetes in Faces and Minnie & Moskowitz. She later appeared in a Broadway revival of Night of the Iguana, with Richard Chamberlain, and in David Merrick’s musical The Baker’s Wife. After graduating from high school, she toured the country with classical theater companies before appearing in Shakespearean roles on Broadway with the Helen Hayes Repertory Theater. She’ll be greatly missed but also greatly remembered.”īorn in Chicago, Illinois, on July 18, 1934, Conley was discovered at age 15 by noted Broadway impresario Jed Harris, who cast her as the Irish maid in a touring production of the 19th century melodrama The Heiress, which starred Basil Rathbone. “Her talent, wit and energy made her a force to be reckoned with and her loss is immeasurable. “Darlene was a beloved member of the CBS family for many years,” said Barbara Bloom, senior vice president of daytime, CBS. Whether she was the villain, the damsel, the sexpot or the comedienne, Darlene was brilliant…She was truly one-of-a-kind.

“She constantly entertained us with every move, every breath, every inflection of her voice. Bell, executive producer and head writer of The Bold and the Beautiful. “Darlene understood better than anyone that each moment of airtime was precious”, said Bradley P. Peruse pics of Young & Restless stars and their real-life children in the gallery below.Actress Darlene Conley, best known for the long-running role of tough dame with a heart of gold, Sally Spectra on the CBS daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful, died on Januat age 72. What would you change or keep the same? What are you hoping happens? How cute are they?!? Let us know what you think of Sally and Chelsea’s current storylines in the comment section below. One real bump, one fake bump!🤰🏻💗 /juqjEeeNki Egan shared the pic of the smiling pair on social media and declared, “One real bump, one fake bump!” If you don’t believe it, check out this photo in which Hope and Egan did a side-by-side comparison behind the scenes at CBS Studios. In fact, Courtney Hope’s pregnancy pad size will probably catch up to Egan’s real-life bump in no time. The bump was barely visible in those scenes but as we all know, it will almost certainly be growing rapidly larger in ‘soap time’ over the coming weeks. Onscreen, Sally’s pregnancy had just started to show as she and Nick got gussied up for the gala, and she worried about people judging. Making that prospect even more fun is the knowledge that Courtney Hope and Mark Grossman are dating in real life. In what felt like a throwback to their former closeness, Sally and Adam joked and smiled at each other, fueling “Ally” fans’ hopes that they will eventually get back together. Sally invited him to join them, and then, rather conveniently, Nick was called away by his daughter leaving the ex-lovebirds alone.


In a recent scene, Sally and Nick were about to tuck into burgers when Adam showed up concerned about her and his unborn child. Happily for Sally, her volatile former boyfriend has managed to stay on a fairly even keel since finding out he’s going to be a dad. This presented another dilemma as he had to be told about the situation. Or should we say which of the brothers? Yep, it was a soapy mess.Ī paternity test revealed that her ex, Adam, was the baby’s father and not Nick, the Newman brother she was involved with currently. Young & Restless’ Sally was rocked when she tested positive on a pregnancy test and quickly realized she didn’t know which of the men she’d recently had sex with was the father. While Egan’s real-life pregnancy hasn’t been written in for her character Chelsea, who is just embarking on a new romance with her ex-fiance Billy Abbott and spending a lot of time sitting behind tables, another star is headed for a maternity wardrobe. But she’s not the only one on the CBS daytime set boasting a bump these days. Young & Restless fans learned Melissa Claire Egan (Chelsea) was pregnant with her second child in February, and were overjoyed for the actress who had previously opened up about her miscarriage heartbreak. It was a ‘bump’er day when these two Genoa City beauties got together.
