Picture this: it’s 1976, and a relatively unknown actress enters a TV studio in Malibu for a screen test. That actress? Deidre Hall, fresh from “The Young and the Restless.” She’s vying for a brand-new character on Days of Our Lives, Dr. Marlena Evans. But rather than excitement, Hall feels uneasy—so much so, she almost turned down the part that would define her career.
Hall later admitted she walked into the audition room and saw familiar faces—“spectacularly famous women”—also trying out for Marlena. She assumed they were the producers’ first choices. So when she got the offer, she thought something was off.
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