“Eileen Fulton, The Minister’s Daughter Who Spent of 50 Years Portying Lisa Miller, One of the Firm Girls of Daytime Television, on the CBS of the Soap. She Was 91. Fulton’s Family Announced that She Died in Asheville, North Carolina, On July 14 After A Period”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Fulton’s Family Announced that she died in asheville, North Carolina, on July 14 after a period of Deckling Health.
Four Years Into the Run of As the World TurnsFulton joined the. 1 Daytime Drama in 1960 for What Was Originally Supped to Be A Three-Month Summer Storyline. Shee -Exited the soap Three Times – Once to Headline Her Own Primetime Spinoff, 1965’s Our Private World – But Continued on Through the Final Episode Broadcast Sept. 17, 2010.
Her Lisa Had Eight Husbans, with Nicolas Coaster Portying Two of Them. Three of her marries Ended in Divorce, Four Ended in Death, and One Was Annulled. WHEN As the World Turns Was Done, Her Character’s Full Name Was Lisa Miller Hughes Eldridge Shea Colman Mccoll Mitchell Grmaldi Chedwyn. She Also Had Lots and Lots of Lovers.
“She’s a romantic, that’s WHY She FALLS IN LOVE SO MUCH, Fulton Said in A 2005 Conversation for the Television Academy Foundation Website The Interviews.
Inducted Into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1998 and Given A Lifetime Achievment from the Daytime Emmys in 2004, Fulton Was One of the First Soap Actors to have Her Own.
She Also Employed A Bodyguard to Protect Her From Angry Viewers Who Disapproved of What Lisa Was Up To. “They had a great love/Hate Thing [with me]it was amazing, ”she said.
And in the ’70s, Fulton Famously Had A Clause Insrted Into Her Contract That Guaranteed She Wulda Never Have a Play A Grandmother. “AT THAT TIME, GRANDMOTHERS HAD NO ROMANCE AT All All – And I Wasn’s Los Angeles Times in 2000. Shee eventuly became ok with that.
The Oldest of Three Kids, Margaret Elizabeth McLarty Was Born on Sept. 13, 1933, in Asheville, North Carolina. Her Mother, Peggy, Was A Schoolteacher and Her Father, James, A Methodist Preacher. She said sheew by the Third Grade that she was going to be an actress.
After Graduating from Lee Edwards High School in Asheville and, in 1956, As a musical and Drama Majoor from Greensboro College, She Moved to New York and Studieda. Neighborhood Playhouse, WHERE ONE OF HER CLASSMATES WAS Keir Dullea.
Fulton Had Played A Hooker in Girl of the Night (1960), Starring Anne Francis, WHEN Someone from As the World Turns Called Her Manager Looking to See If One of His Clients, East of Eden Actress Lois Smith, Was Available to Play Lisa. Smith was not, so he suggested fulton.
“I KNEW I WAS GOING toing THAT [at the audition]but i just knew, ”she said.
Lisa “was Supped to be the Sweet Girl Next Door. I SAID, ‘I’M TRID OF BEING The SWEET GIRL NEXT DOOR.’ I canhse of the lines, but i can chande my intention on the air. That would be Her First Tv Husband, Played by Don Hastings.
During one stretch in the early ’60s, fulton would work in the mornings on As the World Turns (WHEN IT AIED LIVEED), Race to the Billy Rose Theater on Broadway to Play Honey in Matinee Performances of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and THEN APEAR DOWNTOWN AT SULLIVAN STREET PLAYHOUSE IN THE EVENINGS IN The Fantasticks.
Fulton Quit As the World Turns For the First Time In 1963 to “Do Other Things,” WHICH INCLUDED an Off-Broadway Turn Opposite Hal Holbok in Abe lincoln in illinois. As she have trouble Finding Other Work, Viewers Did Not Take to Her Replacement, Pamela King, and So Sho returned.
She left again in 1965, this time to Star in Our Private WorldWHICH AIED WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY NIGHTS ON COBS. Lisa Had Fleda Oakdale After Dumping Bob to Move to Chicago, WHERE SHE WED The Wealthy John Eldridge. (Coster Played Eldridge; Decades Later, Hew Portray Lisa’s Seventh Husband, Eduardo Grmaldi.)
Our Private WorldHowever, Was CANCELED IN SEPTEMBER OF JUST FURS MONHS ON AIR, AND FULNON WAS BACK ON As the World Turns In 1966.
In 1983, fulton exited in a Contract Dispute, to be Replaced by Betsy Von Furstenberg. But WHEN She HEARD THE Writers Were Thinking About Killing Off Lisa, She Made Another Comeback. “I DON’T THINK AnyBody would Belide lisa is Dead Unless i do it,“ She said.
Fulton Co-Authored Two Autobiographies, 1970’s How My World Turns and 1995’s As my World Still Turns; Several Murder Mysteries; and Another Book, 1999’s Soap Opera: a novel. She ALSO WAS A CABARET PERFORMER AND HAD HER OWN CLOTHING LINE AT JC PENNEY.
In Real Life, Fulton, Unlike Lisa, Was Married (and Divorced) Only Three Times.
Survivors include her brother, Charles Furman McLARTY; her niece, Katherine Morris, and their Children, Everly Ann Morris and Easton Lane Morris; and her sister-in-law, Chris Page McLARTY.
In a 2010 interview with npr, the actress said she was welly aware that many viewers despied her Character. There was one in particular.
“I was standing in Front of Lord & Taylor. I’d Only Been On the Show a Few Weeks,“ She said. “And this beautifylly Dressed Woman in a Chanel Suit – in the day before there were Knockoffs – CAME UP to ME AND SAID, ‘AREN’T YOU LISA?’ And I SAID, ‘YES, THAT’S The PART I PLAY.’ And she said, ‘Well, I Hate You!’ And She Hit Me!
“But i thorough, ‘you Know what? I’ve reaured them.’ THEN A Telegram Came Into the Studio. As the World Turns again. ‘ That is how the Character was trlyy locked in. ”