{"id":77741,"date":"2025-07-20T10:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77741\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T10:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T10:21:09","slug":"as-the-world-turns-star-was-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/77741\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;As The World Turns&#8217; Star Was 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/eileen-fulton\/\" id=\"auto-tag_eileen-fulton\" data-tag=\"eileen-fulton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eileen Fulton<\/a>, the actress who originated the soap opera \u201cvixen\u201d trope as Lisa Miller on <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/cbs\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cbs\" data-tag=\"cbs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CBS<\/a>\u2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/as-the-world-turns\/\" id=\"auto-tag_as-the-world-turns\" data-tag=\"as-the-world-turns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As the World Turns<\/a>, died July 14 at the age of 91 in Asheville, N.C. after a period of declining\u00a0health, her <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.grocefuneralhome.com\/obits\/eileen-fulton\/\" target=\"_blank\">family announced in an obituary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKnown as the first bad girl of daytime television, Fulton occupied the role from May 1960 through September 2010, when the sudser went off the air, making her one of the longest-tenured soap opera stars in U.S. TV history. Initially created as a short-term character and \u201cnice girl\u201d planned for actress Lois Smith, the role catapulted Fulton into the Soap Opera Hall of Fame in 1998 and a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in\u00a02004. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBorn Margaret Elizabeth McLarty in Asheville on September 13, 1933 to a Methodist minister father and public school\u00a0teacher mother, Fulton graduated from Greensboro College with a bachelor\u2019s degree in music in 1956 before moving to New York to pursue an acting career \u2014 a move that was strongly supported by her\u00a0parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tStudying under famed acting coaches Sanford Meisner and Lee Strasberg at the Neighborhood Playhouse, as well as lauded dance teacher Martha Graham, she soon transitioned to her stage name and in 1960 was cast in Girl of the Night, her debut feature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAt one point during her tenure on As the World Turns, then broadcast live, she was simultaneously appearing on Broadway in Who\u2019s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and off-Broadway musical The\u00a0Fantasticks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAlso a writer and singer, Fulton performed a cabaret act for years in venues across New York and Los Angeles. In 1970, she co-authored her first autobiography, How My World Turns, and in 1995, she co-authored a second, called As My World Still Turns. Additionally, she wrote a series of murder-mystery novels, as well as a novel called Soap Opera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFulton retired in 2019 and moved to Black Mountain, N.C. She is survived by her brother, Charles Furman McLarty, niece Katherine Morris and their children, as well as sister-in-law Chris Page McLarty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Eileen Fulton, the actress who originated the soap opera \u201cvixen\u201d trope as Lisa Miller on CBS\u2018 As the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[53734,15328,185,53735,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-77741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-as-the-world-turns","9":"tag-cbs","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-eileen-fulton","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114885065638410271","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}