The Secret Storm
Genre: Soap opera
Started: 1st February 1954
Ended: 8th February 1974
Episodes: 5195
Country: United States of America
Created by: Roy Winsor
Starring: Marla Adams, Jada Rowland, Russell Hicks, Marjorie Gateson, James Pritchett, Audrey Landers, Roy Scheider, Warren Berlinger, Eleanor Phelps, Liam Sullivan, Lester Rawlins, Bibi Besch, Alexander Scourby, Terry Kiser, Frances Sternhagen, Judy Lewis, Don Galloway, David O'Brien, Robert Loggia, Laurence Luckinbill, Bernard Barrow, Diana Muldaur, Edward Winter, Ken Kercheval, Linda Purl, Keith Charles, Robert Morse, Don McHenry, Peter Hobbs, Joan Crawford
The Secret Storm is a soap opera which ran on CBS from February 1, 1954 to February 8, 1974. The series was created by Roy Winsor, who also created the long-running soap operas Search for Tomorrow and Love of Life. Gloria Monty of General Hospital fame was a longtime director of the series.
The story follows the Ames family, a prominent clan in the fictional Northeastern town of Woodbridge (eventually identified as being located in New York). The Ames family consisted of Peter, his wife Ellen, and their three children: Susan, Jerry, and Amy. Ellen was killed in the first episode and subsequent stories focused on Peter raising his three children. Lending a hand, however dubiously, was Peter's sister in-law, also his former fiancée, Pauline Rysdale (Haila Stoddard).
Later the villainous Belle Clemens (Marla Adams) was the main source of trouble for Woodbridge, taking over from Aunt Pauline, the show's original villain. Originally due to die of kidney disease, the writers had Belle's daughter drown in an accident. Belle blamed Amy for the death.
Amy was allowed to age in real time and did not undergo rapid aging as used on many younger soap opera characters. Jada Rowland played the
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