{"id":275504,"date":"2010-02-04T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=91749"},"modified":"2010-02-04T07:41:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T12:41:01","slug":"frances-reid-%e2%80%9cdays-of-our-lives%e2%80%99%e2%80%9d-alice-horton-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/275504","title":{"rendered":"Frances Reid, \u201cDays Of Our Lives\u2019\u201d Alice Horton, Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soap opera legend Frances Reid &#8212; who played matriarch Alice Horton on NBC&#8217;s long-running daytime drama <em>Days of our Lives<\/em> for 42 years &#8212; passed away on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-AXRSmjMnSY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-AXRSmjMnSY&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-91749\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The actress began her career with a small role in 1938 movie <em>Man-Proof<\/em>, before landing a string of jobs on Broadway.  The actress was initially  accept the part of Alice after appearing for 12 years on another television soap opera, <em>Portia Faces Life<\/em>.  But Reid ultimately decided Alice was a character that deserved her consideration, and she made the role made a household name after the <em>Days<\/em> series&#8217; premiere in Nov. 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Reid left <em>Days of our Lives<\/em> in Dec. 2007, but not before earning a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Emmys in 2004. <\/p>\n<p>Frances Reid was 95.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hNRM8k5i1LIifp9OZUXf7D2Ng6g\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hNRM8k5i1LIifp9OZUXf7D2Ng6g\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hNRM8k5i1LIifp9OZUXf7D2Ng6g\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/hNRM8k5i1LIifp9OZUXf7D2Ng6g\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soap opera legend Frances Reid &#8212; who played matriarch Alice Horton on NBC&#8217;s long-running daytime drama Days of our Lives for 42 years &#8212; passed away on Wednesday. The actress began her career with a small role in 1938 movie Man-Proof, before landing a string of jobs on Broadway. The actress was initially accept the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}