James Mason

Eileen Herlie, Oct. 8, age 90: The Scotland-born Herlie became beloved to daytime soap fans for her 32 years of work on "All My Children," playing Myrtle Fargate. But Herlie had a long and rich Broadway career before joining "AMC," playing Gertrude to Richard Burton's "Hamlet"... more (a role she would reprise twice on film, once again with Burton, and once with Laurence Olivier) and dozens of other roles. She also appeared on film in "Freud," alongside Montgomery Clift, and "The Sea Gull," with James Mason. She joined "All My Children" in 1976 and became a second mother figure to Erica Kane (Susan Lucci), a rock of sanity and motherly advice amid the plot twists and skullduggery of Pine Valley.

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