Soap Operas
She is known for her work in daytime soap operas. She began that career in 1962, starring as Anne Fletcher on Guiding Light. The following year, she joined the cast of The Edge of Night as Carol Kramer.
In 1964, she originated the role of Dr. Althea Davis on NBC's year-old soap The Doctors. Hubbard played the role until 1969, when she took time off. She returned after a year and continued the role until 1978. She returned again in 1981 and remained with the show until its cancellation in 1982. In 1974, Hubbard was awarded the first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
After that serial was cancelled, Hubbard was in One Life to Live for the short-lived role of Estelle Chadwick. In 1984, however, she debut in her best-known role, that of businesswoman Lucinda Walsh on As the World Turns. She was nominated nine times for a Daytime Emmy for her portrayal of Lucinda. Hubbard left the program in 1999 due to a disagreement over the direction of her character; she was persuaded to return months later by the show's new executive producer. Hubbard was featured in a prominent storyline in 2005 when her character was diagnosed with cancer. She was in the show's 50th anniversary episode in April 2006, and stayed with the show until its final episode in September 2010.
In July 2009 she started a recurring role on the Dutch soap Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden, and played the role of Sair Poindexter, an American sexologist and mother of the Irene Huygens (Anita Donk) character. Hubbard, who traveled frequently to the Dutch province of Friesland where her boyfriend resides, was cast after meeting the writers on one of her visits. (As The World Turns also airs in the Netherlands and Hubbard was already well-known there as a result.)
- Guiding Light as Anne Fletcher #2 (1962)
- The Edge of Night as Carol Kramer (1963)
- The Doctors as Dr. Althea Davis #1 (1964–1969, 1970–1978, 1981–1982)
- One Life to Live as Estelle Chadwick (1983–1984)
- As the World Turns as Lucinda Walsh (1984–2010)
- Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden as Sair Poindexter (2009)
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Famous quotes related to soap operas:
“I’ve finally figured out why soap operas are, and logically should be, so popular with generations of housebound women. They are the only place in our culture where grown-up men take seriously all the things that grown-up women have to deal with all day long.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s ‘real’ life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send cheques to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.”
—Northrop Frye (b. 1912)