Rae Cummings

Gretel Rae Cummings was originated by Linda Dano from 1978 to 1980.{{cite book |last1=Warner |first1=Gary |title=One Life to Live: Thirty Years of Memories |date=1998 |publisher=Hyperion |isbn=978-0786863679 |page=49}}{{cite web|url=http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/whoswho/rae.php|title=Who's Who in Llanview: Rae Cummings|publisher=SoapCentral.com|access-date=February 19, 2009}} Dano went on to appear on CBS's As the World Turns and on NBC's Another World until that series' cancellation on June 25, 1999.{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1999/06/25/daytime-soaps-aim-please-youth-market/|title=Soap Dish|last=Angulo|first=Sandra P.|date=June 25, 1999|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|publisher=EW.com|access-date=February 19, 2009}} On June 28, 1999, Dano returned to One Life to Live as Rae.{{cite web|url=http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/news/2003/1229-dano.php|title=OLTL News: Dano's Run as ABC's Rae About to End |last=Kroll|first=Dan J.|date=December 29, 2003|publisher=SoapCentral.com|access-date=February 19, 2009}} Anna Stuart filled in for Dano on April 25, 2002. Dano was nominated for a Daytime Emmy for Supporting Actress in 2003,{{cite web|url=http://www.soapoperadigest.com/Emmys/winners2003/index.html|title=Daytime Emmy Winners & Nominees: 2003|publisher=SoapOperaDigest.com|access-date=February 18, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060527184101/http://soapoperadigest.com/Emmys/winners2003/index.html|archive-date=May 27, 2006}} and left One Life to Live on March 13, 2004.

After playing Felicia Gallant on Another World, Dano was not looking forward to playing a character named Gretel, which she felt sounded less glamorous. She and the producers of One Life to Live reached a compromise where Gretel would now be using her middle name, Rae.{{Cite book |last=Waggett |first=Gerry |title=The One Life to Live 40th Anniversary Trivia Book |publisher=Hyperion |year=2008 |isbn=9781401323097 |pages=161}} It was later revealed on One Life to Live that Gretel had stolen the credentials of a man named Ray Cummings, and had been practicing psychology without a valid license.

In a move designed to "entice viewers to tune into soap operas that they might not have usually watched," in 2000, then-president of ABC Daytime Angela Shapiro orchestrated Dano's concurrent appearance as Rae Cummings on the three other ABC daytime dramas at the time — All My Children, General Hospital, and Port Charles — in an extended crossover storyline, which was the first time a daytime character had appeared on four series.{{cite web|url=http://www.soapcentral.com/soapcentral/news/2002/0401-shapiro.php|title=Angela Shapiro to Leave ABC Daytime Post|last=Kroll|first=Dan J.|date=April 1, 2002|publisher=SoapCentral.com|access-date=February 19, 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.soapcentral.com/amc/news/2003/1117-crossovers.php|title=AMC News: ABC Plans AMC, OLTL Crossovers|last=Kroll|first=Dan J.|date=November 12, 2003|publisher=SoapCentral.com|access-date=February 19, 2009}}

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• {{cite web|url=http://abc.go.com/daytime/soaps/onelifetolive/bios/Rae_Cummings.html |title=Character Biography: Rae Cummings (Linda Dano)|publisher=ABC.com (Internet Archive)|access-date=February 13, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060213102337/http://abc.go.com/daytime/soaps/onelifetolive/bios/Rae_Cummings.html |archive-date = February 13, 2006}}
• [http://www.soapcentral.com/oltl/whoswho/rae.php Rae Cummings profile - SoapCentral.com]

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