1986: Robin Wright in ‘Star Games’
Star Games is a television series which ran from September 7, 1985 to March 1, 1986.
It features teams of actors representing various American TV shows and movies competing in sports events.
The show ran for two seasons of 13 episodes.
The second season was won by the team from soap opera ‘Santa Barbara’.
In this video you can watch in action Joseph Bottoms, Todd McKee, John Allen Nelson, Julie Ronnie, Kerry Sherman, Marcy Walker & Robin Wright.
April 1986: Robin Wright Interview
In a recent interview, Robin Wright said she’s very disappointed with her ‘Santa Barbara’ storylines because they transformed Kelly Capwell into a confused, naive little schoolgirl. “The change in Kelly really upset me,” admits Robin. “She turned into a real baby. For a while there she couldn’t make up her mind about anything. She went back and forth between Dylan and Nick like a ping-pong ball! It was pretty frustrating for me as an actress.”
“I’m nothing like that,” she continues. “I like to get to the point of things-make decisions right away. It took Kelly months to get Dylan out of her life and out of her system. I would have done it in a matter of days.”
In spite of Robin’s obvious displeasure over her wishy-washy SB character, Wright is extremely grateful to ‘Santa Barbara’. “Santa Barbara really took a chance on me,” she admits. “The only real acting experience I’d had before landing the part of Kelly was a guest-starring role on The Yellow Rose. But they hired me anyway. I’ve learned so much from this show. Every day is an experience. There have been good times, bad times, and weird times, but I wouldn’t have traded them for anything. Santa Barbara is a soap opera within itself,” she laughs. “Our cast is one big family. We work long, hard hours together and we’re very close.”
In this article, Robin Wright also talks about her childhood. She says: “My parents divorced when I was little. My mom was in the cosmetic business and that demanded a lot of travel time. So, she and my brother Richard and I used to go all over the world together. We were the Three Musketeers. We’ve been everywhere, except for Asia. It was a lot of fun at times, but tough, too, on me as a kid. Because of the travel, my childhood was always having to make new friends wherever we went. I was so shy that I never wanted to go to school. All I ever wanted to do was hang out with my mom and brother.”
Robin Wright also talks about her boyfriend Dane Witherspoon. She says: “We met and fell in love, but neither of us likes to talk about it very much. Dane and I are both very shy. We’re not into publicizing our romance. It’s real. It’s private. And we’ll try to keep it that way.”
April 30, 1986: Film debut of Robin Wright is released in theaters
‘Hollywood Vice Squad’, directed by Penelope Spheeris, is released in cinemas.
This is the first feature film of Robin Wright.
In her movie debut, Robin Wright plays Lori, a runaway teenage girl, who gets caught in the world of pornography, prostitution and drugs.
1986: Robin Wright talks about Jessica Lange, her favorite actress
In a recent interview, Robin Wright was asked to choose two roles she would have loved to play. And this is what Robin answered: “The role of Patsy Cline in SWEET DREAMS and the title role in FRANCES. I would love to do a biographical part because you get more input with a real person — you get a real sense of who they are. Both are Jessica Lange roles and I love her. I think she’s fantastic.”
May 10, 1986: Robin Wright and Dane Witherspoon cover Télé Star Magazine
Robin and her boyfriend Dane Witherspoon are on the cover of French Magazine Télé Star Magazine. The interview is about soap opera ‘Santa Barbara’ where they played lovers Kelly Capwell and Joe Perkins.
In this article, Robin Wright says she’s really tired of ‘Santa Barbara’ after working on the soap opera for almost 2 years. She says: “I am fed up with Santa Barbara. I am tired with television. The show is directed by four directors. We change of team twice per week, each time we have a new producer, a new writer and a new director, who does not have the same idea of the role as the previous one, of course. The most annoying, it is that the writers do not read the scenarios of the previous shooting. Sometimes, they even make us say the opposite of what we said the day before. It is not easy. In fact, except the actors, any technician really knows the story. The characters appear and disappear from the show according to the imagination of the directors and the producers.”
Robin Wright has other reasons of dissatisfaction about ‘Santa Barbara’. “The actor does not really have any possibility of playing. All that is asked to us is to learn forty pages of dialogues, to then say sentences such as “Your lips looks like petals of roses”, and to make these ineptitudes credible.”
Robin says that she wants to leave the show and try other things: “I signed a three-year contract which ends in July 1987 and I promised myself that never again I will make this kind of show.”
Robin also dreams to leave Los Angeles. “We would like to settle in Santa Fe, New Mexico. We like the desert, the architecture, the serenity of this state…”
1986: Robin Wright turns down ‘Dirty Dancing’
Robin Wright was offered the leading role in ‘Dirty Dancing’ with Patrick Swayze, but she had to turn it down because of her busy schedule on soap opera ‘Santa Barbara’ and also because this year she was filming ‘The Princess Bride’.
June 1986: Celebration of ‘Santa Barbara’ Episode 500
Robin Wright attended the 500th show celebration at the Beekman Tower in New York.
In these photos we can see Robin enjoying the party with Marcy Walker, A Martinez, Nancy Lee Grahn, Jed Allan, Todd McKee and her boyfriend Dane Witherspoon.
July 15, 1986: Robin Wright doesn’t like her story with Page Mosely
In Soap Opera Digest magazine, Robin Wright talks about Santa Barbara.
Wright is not a fan of her story with Page Mosely. She says: “The dumbest thing that Kelly did was sleep with Nick’s brother, Dylan. She obviously didn’t think of what the outcome would be. Kelly has done plenty of other dumb things. She’d better wise up!”
Years later (in 2012 and 2014), Page Mosely revealed that he didn’t get along with Robin Wright and that he thinks that she was the reason he was fired. He said: “Robin Wright did not like me very much. I think that led to me getting knock off the show. Robin was a handful. She didn’t like to rehearse and certainly didn’t want to hang out. We had a tough time getting along at times.”
July 17, 1986: First Daytime Emmy nomination for Robin Wright
The 13th Daytime Emmy Awards were held on July 17, 1986 to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from March 6, 1985 to March 5, 1986.
Robin Wright, Dame Judith Anderson & Nicolas Coster were the FIRST ACTING Emmy nominations that soap opera ‘Santa Barbara’ received.
The nominees in the category of Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series were Martha Byrne (As the World Turns), Jane Krakowski (Search for Tomorrow), Debbi Morgan (All My Children), Robin Wright (Santa Barbara) and Ellen Wheeler who won the award for ‘Another World’.
Here’s a VIDEO with all the appearances of the cast of ‘Santa Barbara’. You can see presenting awards these Santa Barbara Stars: Marcy Walker, A Martinez, Jed Allan, Robin Mattson & Judith McConnell.
July 30, 1986: ‘Santa Barbara’ second birthday
The cast of NBC-TV’s daytime drama “Santa Barbara” gathered on the set at NBC’s Studio 11 in Burbank, CA, to celebrate the show’s second birthday.
Pictured are: (seated in front, from left) Bridget Dobson and Jerome Dobson, head writers, creators and co-executive producers; (standing, from left) Justin Deas, Robin Wright, David Haskell, Gina Gallego, Jane Sibbett, Jed Allan, Robin Mattson, Brandon Call, Robert Thaler, Julia Campbell, Stacy Edwards, Richard Eden, Judith McConnell, Marcy Walker, A Martinez and Margarita Cordova.
“Santa Barbara” received a 16 share the week of July 7 (according to the Nielsen Television Index) marking its highest share ever.
August/December 1986: Robin Wright is filming ‘The Princess Bride’, her second movie
The shooting of ‘The Princess Bride’ began in August 18 and ended in December 1986 in England and Ireland.
In this movie, Robin Wright plays the leading role of Princess Buttercup. The film is directed by Rob Reiner.
September 6, 1986: Robin Wright and boyfriend Dane Witherspoon cover Télé 7 Jours
Robin and Dane are on the cover of the French magazine Télé 7 Jours.
September 6, 1986: Robin Wright covers Télé Star Magazine
Robin Wright is on the cover of French magazine Télé Star.
November 16, 1986: First Soap Opera Digest Nomination for Robin Wright
The 3rd Soap Opera Digest Awards were televised on NBC in November 16, 1986.
The nominees in the category of Outstanding Young Leading Actress on a Daytime Serial were Tracey E. Bregman (The Young and the Restless), Andrea Evans (One Life to Live), Beth Maitland (The Young and the Restless), Debbi Morgan (All My Children), Krista Tesreau (Guiding Light), Kristi Ferrell (Guiding Light), Marcy Walker (Santa Barbara), Robin Wright (Santa Barbara) and Ellen Wheeler who won the award for ‘Another World’.
December 12, 1986: Santa Barbara Christmas Party
After 4 months in UK filming ‘The Princess Bride’, Robin Wright returned home and attended the Santa Barbara Christmas Party with her boyfriend Dane Witherspoon and she enjoyed very much the event with her close friend and ‘Santa Barbara’ costar Marcy Walker.
