Eileen Fulton is DEAD to me

Looks like her family didn’t release the news until now.

If I lived in NC, I would go to the service.

YOUTUBE LINK------->> Accepting the Soap Opera Digest Award....1991.....Introduced by Jeannie Cooper.

I liked her in As the World Turns, and 91 is an incredible age. I saw her on a talk show about 10 years ago. She looked very young facially, but had crippling arthritis when she raised her hands. I gasped at the juxtaposition of this smooth, smooth face and those crippled claws.

How grandma HATED that tramp Lisa!

Lisa forever.

She was so mistreated by the show in later years.

Rather impressed that she did Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Yes, she was a matinee Honey.

Sad news. My 92 year old mother loved ATWT and especially Lisa (I think because they both were from.NC and roughly the same age). She would reference the show by saying "I watched Lisa today."

In ATWT's last years, Fulton was criminally underused and it would be months between fleeting scenes showing Lisa. My mother remarked that she had quit following ATWT because it mainly showed new characters and Lisa never appeared. I knew when this 50 year ATWT fan quit watching, this show had lost its way and was likely doomed. Two years later, ATWT was cancelled.

Thankfully, my mother is still with us and, to be 92, is in fairly good health. I dread having to tell her that Fulton is dead but cherish being able to tell Mom.

I like Fulton and think about my mother and her adoration of Lisa whenever I read something about the actress.

Fulton had a good, long life and brought a lot of joy to soap viewers for decades. I'm going to remind Mom of that.

My late husband and I were fortunate enough to see her in several cabaret performances over the years. One of my favorite was a Christmas show. I'll never forget her rendition of The Little Drummer Boy - "pa rum Pum Pum Pum"

My grandmother used to watch ATWT when I was in high school and used to tell me about Eileen Fulton's character.

I remember reading in an interview some years ago that Fulton was disappointed that she never won a competitive Emmy despite all her years of work on the show.

Oh no! What happened?

She was fighting a oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico.

She was 91!

If Susan Lucci & Barbara Cartland had a baby.

I worked on the show for a period. She was lots of fun and really nice. Wacky.

I see she had only one movie credit before ATWT: 7th-billed playing a prostitute in GIRL OF THE NIGHT (60). The film was overshadowed by BUTTERFIELD 8.

She was a shameless hussy!

I loved that she was able to do this: "During one stretch in the early ’60s, Fulton would work in the mornings on As the World Turns (when it aired lived), race to the Billy Rose Theater on Broadway to play Honey in matinee performances of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and then appear downtown at the Sullivan Street Playhouse in the evenings in The Fantasticks."

Could somebody post the archive version of the NY Times obit when it appears?

I never realized she recorded a minor hit song called As the World Turns.

Oops

One of the stories in my family was how my Great-Grandmother wrote Bob Hughes a letter telling him that Lisa was cheating on him. Lisa didn't have to be front and center, but she was treated so very poorly by the show at the end. She and Bob should have been the last shot.

Most people no longer realize how huge she was on the show. My mother never watched as she was an NBC person but she knew about Lisa.

Fulton went to the opera and met Renata Tebaldi who said, “Lisa! You naughty girl!” One of the presidents said he and his wife watched every day “to see what Lisa is up to.”

And of course there was the crazed fan who knocked Fulton down on the street and said, “I hate you!!”

R 22, Don Hastings, who played Dr Bob, lives near me, and I see him at parties a couple times a year. He’s 91 and seems to be going quite well.

I’ve told this story before. My cousin, Christopher Durham, was on the show briefly in the late 80s. One day they were all sitting around waiting to film one of the party scenes.

Fulton was complaining about her new hairstyle which she said got “fucked up”. Helen Wagner asked her to not be so crude and Fulton said, “Well I wouldn’t be except for this fucking perm!”

She never completely lost her Southern twang.

Has Susan Dey commented?

Or at least a cast member?

And let’s not forget the number of baby girls named Lisa in the 60s and 70s, all because of that character. I was born in the 70s and I had 4 Lisas in my class.

R.I.P. to the Grand Dame Eileen Fulton. Maura West, imo, is reminiscent of a younger Eileen/Lisa; Carly being related to Rosanna- probably would've made it a stretch if she were related to Lisa as well, but there was somewhat of a resemblance between the actresses and the characters. Remarkable performances from Eileen whenever she had really good material, even up against the other Grand Dame, Elizabeth Hubbard.

I remember having a bad day at school in second grade. Still, I was in no hurry to get home as my family was a bit of a shit show at the time. Then I remembered that was the day Lisa was marrying Grant Coleman. I ran to the TV fantasizing that I was the bride.

My favorite Liz Hubbard moment was at Lisa and Earl's wedding, when Lucinda turned to James and said "She's wearing WHITE!"

You just KNOW that was an ad-lib.

Her Archive interview is funny. She had a big personality with lots of charisma.

Did Martha Byrne comment...from jail?

When asked about Hogan Sheffer, "I have nothing to say."

R34 The SHADE!! Love it!