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KENDALL HART (All My Children)
"I seduced my stepfather, and when he wouldn't sleep with me, I slept with the stable boy, cried rape, and my mother stabbed him with a letter opener. Then I went to jail for perjury, burned my parents' divorce papers, and locked up my little sister. I think that was all in the first week."
-- Gellar to The New York Times, April 27, 1997
In a Chicago Sun Times article titled "Erica Kane's Daughter Fashioned From Same Mold", Maria Hart wrote: "In today's 'politically correct' climate of soaps, the vixen type has all but faded from the landscape, replaced instead by 'reformed' bad girls. That is why the introduction of Kendall -- a two-faced schemer who does the wrong things for the right reasons -- is absolutely refreshing. She's torn from the same page of moral turpitude that propelled Lucci's Erica Kane into afternoon prominence. 'Everyone hates me [Kendall] for some reason, but I keep wondering why,' professes Gellar. 'I didn't do anything wrong.' (True, if you don't count perjury, seducing her mother's husband and tormenting her half-sister)...
'I didn't know what to expect. It was overwhelming,' Gellar says of her first few weeks on the show. 'I think it was rare that I was thrown into the fire immediately...I'm the new troubled character and I very much hope they don't reform me. They're starting to let us be bitchy, vampy, and fun again.'"
THE MYSTERY OF KENDALL'S BIRTH
Kendall came to Pine Valley and got a job as Erica's assistant, but when grandmother Mona noticed a birthmark, it was revealed that Kendall was Erica's daughter, the result of Erica's rape at the age of fourteen by Richard Fields (played by James A. Stephens) and had been given up for adoption.
Kendall was born on 25 September, but the year was changed. Originally it was 1976, then it was moved to 1970, making Kendall 23 instead of 16. Episode one of AMC aired 5 January 1970, Susan Lucci's first episode aired on 16 January 1970, and Erica's birthday is 2 November, so if the 1970 birthdate is accurate, the rape that resulted in Kendall's birth occurred on 2 November 1969. If Kendall was born the following 25 September, the pregnancy, which was not noticeable to viewers, lasted 327 Days (11 months and 23 days).
Apres Accident
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Charm!
The fictional Kendall Hart is the author of Charm!, a romance novel set in Manhattan. The book's launch party was described on Vulture in 2008:
"Upstairs, we assembled on the set of the ConFusion Bar, the chic nightclub in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania, founded by Kendall Hart, 'author' of Charm, the book we had gathered to fête. (Once played by a teenage Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kendall is now played by actress Alicia Minshew, a dead ringer for Susan Lucci, who plays her mother.) Charm is a real book, a TV tie-in novel ostensibly written by Kendall Hart based on her own life experiences, a sort of roman à clef à clef. Its actual editor, Gretchen Young of Hyperion, was here, looking somewhat embarrassed by the whole thing. We asked her who actually wrote Charm, the book, and she was vague. 'Oh, we have a writer who is good at things like this,' she said." Charm! is available in a Kindle Edition or in hardcover.
Three generations of Kendall's family.
FINAL APPEARANCE
ALL MY CHILDREN was cancelled on 14 April 2011. Gellar told MSN's Wonder Wall: "I'm very upset about that. First of all, they had the audacity to cancel it on my birthday. So let's have that discussion. I think it's criminal. I remember pretending to be sick when I was younger and staying home and like watching the ABC soap lineup in bed. And I realize it's tough economic times and it wasn't necessarily financially working, but there has to be a way to make it work. And these shows have been on for 40 years...it's just devastating to me.
MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG AS LILITH BENTON MONTGOMERY
While Gellar was on the show, Trachtenberg (who would later be Dawn on Buffy the Vampire Slayer) succeeded Mischa Barton in the role of Lily, and continued in the role until 1996.
Lily is the oldest child of Laurel Banning Dillon and her husband, Denny Benton, both deceased (Laurel killed Benton in self-defence). When Lily was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, her mother embezzled from the Natalie Dillon's charity organization to provide expensive care and schooling for the child. Jackson Montgomery (who helped Laurel hide the body of her first husband and married her while they were on the run) adopted Lily. Laurel was shot dead in 1966 by Jason Sheffield (who really wanted to kill her brother).
SHANE MCDERMOTT AS SCOTT PARKER CHANDLER
Chandler was portrayed by Philip Amelio (1988-1991), Shane McDermott (1995-1996), Daniel Cosgrove (1996-1998), Forbes March (1999-2000), Adam Mayfield (2009-2010), and then by Daniel Cosgrove again.
Scott was the son of Fred Parker and his wife Cindy (Ellen Wheeler). Fred contracted HIV/AIDS (from IV drug use) which resulted in his death. In 1988, Cindy was taken into the home of Jesse and Angie Hubbard. Scott and Frankie Hubbard become close friends. Cindy then develops AIDS herself. Cindy was ostracized, and would later die, but not before marrying Stuart Chandler, who adopts Scott.
Scott started High School in 1995 and was initially attracted to Anita Santos, who was in love with Bobby Warner. So Scott then pursued Laura Kirk whom he was tutoring. (Scott was a bright boy and would skip his senior year of high school.) But Laura had something of a dark past, or at least that was the excuse she used for not getting involved with Scott. So next he tried Hungarian Princess Gillian Andrassy, but Kelsey Jefferson and Ryan Lavery broke them up by having Gillian deported.
Scott was electocuted at the Chandler cabin and spent quite a whie in a coma. When he recovered he went to college in California.
In Gellar's final scene in the show McDermott (who was Garrett Booth on Swans Crossing) was visible, but their two characters did not interact.
ANTON LANG - Kendall's First Husband
--The illegitimate son of Dimitri Marick (Michael Nader) and Corvina Lang (a maid in the home of Dimitri's parents in Hungary), Anton was raised as Corvina's younger brother and only after arriving in America did he discover his true parentage. He later married Kendall (who was Dimitri's stepdaughter). He had the marriage annulled but Kendall contested the annulment and won. However, Anton eventually proved the marriage was a scam and got his annulment. He ended up losing everything things to the schemes of Dimitri and Erica and eventually left Pine Valley.
Anton Lang was played by Rudolf Martin (Axi Torvalds in SWORDFISH). He guest-stars as Dracula in the BTVS episode "Buffy vs Dracula".
Corvina Lang was played by Margaret Sophie Stein, whose real name was Malgorzata Zajaczkowska.
DEL HENRY - the guy Kendall left Pine Valley with
Del Henry (real name Delbert Henry Hunkle) came to Pine Valley in 1994 looking for his half-sister Dixie Cooney Martin. (he was the illegitimate son of Dixie's father Seabone Hunkle. Del found Dixie, who was shocked to find she had a half-brother. Eventually, Del and Dixie (Kari Gibson) became close and Del told her he needed a kidney transplant, which she agreed to. He met Kendall Hart while she was in jail for perjury. He agreed to help Kendall write a tell-all book about her mother, Erica Kane. The book never happened, but Del and Kendall got engaged and left in 1995 for Florida.
Eventually the two broke up and Del's health began to fail him again. Del learned that he had another sister, Di Kirby (Kelli Giddish), who had been given away at birth. Del found Di and got yet another kidney transplant.
In 2005, Di came to Pine Valley claiming to be Dixie (whom she believed to be deceased). Del confronted Di and threatened to expose her. Di begged Del to keep her secret. Del agreed, but stood by her when the whole town learned the truth. Later, he was happy to learn Dixie was really alive and well, but that didn't last long. Dixie was killed in 2007 by a serial killer known as the Satin Slayer.
Del was a bartender in the ConFusion nightclub. The character was portrayed by Winsor Harmon until 1996 when Alec Musser took over.
CHARACTERS PLAYED BY ACTORS UNKNOWN
Yvette the dressmaker appeared in at least two episodes of ALL MY CHILDREN, #6025 and #6072. In both episodes she had interaction with Kendall Hart.
In episode #6111 (11 August 1993) Erica Kane identifies the woman in this photo as a film actress named Catherine Patterson. The spelling of the name is a guess. It is unknown if she appeared in any other episodes. The male character in the scene is Richard Fields (playing a character named Douglas) and is played by James A. Stephens. They are part of a scene being viewed on television by Kendall Hart and Erica Kane. No information seems to be available about who portrayed Catherine Patterson.
In episode #6133 (10 September 1993) Dimitri reads the name Madison Grant from a videotape case holding a tape that Kendall has just watched. She is Richard Fields' co-star in FAREWELL PICCADILLY, a black and white film set in London during the blitz. She and Fields sing There'll be Bluebirds Over the White Cliffs of Dover No further information is available about the actor portraying Madison Grant
The doctor who helps get Kendall into a hospital bed after she faints in episode 6199.