Five Things That Happened On September 16 In Soap History

In 1992, Hillary B. Smith debuted as Nora Hanen (pictured with Robert S. Woods as Bo Buchanan) on One Life To Live. Prior to joining the show, Smith had appeared as Kit McCormick on The Doctors in 1982 and, from 1983-89, she played Margo Hughes on As The World Turns. She recalled of her move to OLTL on Soap Opera Digest's podcast, Dishing With Digest, "I was screen-testing with Bobby Woods [and] I remember [then-Executive Producer] Linda Gottlieb calling me upstairs going, 'You know, we’re really looking for a redhead.' I said, 'Well, a redhead screen-tested. You should hire her.' She said, 'Well, would you be interested in being a redhead?' I was like, 'Sure, I’ll be a redhead, but you’ve got a redhead downstairs and she was great.' So it took about a week but then they called and said I had the part. Two weeks later, I had already dyed my hair red and I was getting ready to go in for my first day of work."