{"id":618447,"date":"2024-04-27T00:49:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/marla-adams-dina-on-the-young-and-the-restless-dies-at-85\/"},"modified":"2024-04-27T00:49:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T21:49:13","slug":"marla-adams-dina-on-the-young-and-the-restless-dies-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/marla-adams-dina-on-the-young-and-the-restless-dies-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"#Marla Adams, Dina on \u2018The Young and the Restless,\u2019 Dies at 85"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Marla Adams, the Emmy-winning soap opera veteran who starred as the scheming Dina Abbott Mergeron during parts of five decades on The Young and the Restless<\/em>, has died. She was 85.<\/p>\n

\n Adams died Thursday in Los Angeles, Matt Kane, director of media<\/a> and talent for The Young and the Restless<\/em>, announced.<\/p>\n

\n When she was just starting out, Adams app<\/a>eared in 1958 alongside Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on Broadway in The Visit<\/em> and portrayed June, the high school best friend of Natalie Wood\u2018s Deanie, in Elia Kazan\u2019s Splendor in the Grass<\/em> (1961).<\/p>\n

\n Her first prominent role on a daytime drama came on CBS\u2019 The Secret Storm<\/em>, where she played bad girl Belle Clemens from 1968 until the show\u2019s 1974 demise. \u201cI was the bitch of daytime,\u201d she said<\/a> in a 2016 interview. \u201cI played a good bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Adams joined Y&R<\/em> in 1983 but left when her three-year contract was up. She returned to Genoa City for brief stints in 1991, 1996 and 2008 before being asked by head writer-producer Sally Sussman to go it again in 2017.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI remember when [Sussman told her], \u2018I\u2019m going to bring you back on The Young and the Restless<\/em>, but you\u2019ve got Alzheimer\u2019s,\u2019 and I said, \u2018What!? You\u2019re bringing me back so you can kill me off?’\u201d she recalled<\/a> in 2020. \u201cAnd she said, \u2018Oh no, it\u2019ll be about a year.\u2019 That dissolved into four years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Viewers watched the Abbott matriarch slowly and heartbreakingly unravel before dying in an episode in October 2020. In her final moments, she addressed her kids, Traci (Beth Maitland), Jack (Peter Bergman) and Ashley (Eileen Davidson), before being welcomed into heaven by her first husband, John Abbott (Jerry Douglas).<\/p>\n

\n Eight months later, Adams received the lone Daytime Emmy<\/a> of her long career.<\/p>\n

\n \u201cFrom all the characters I\u2019ve played, from The Secret Storm<\/em> to Broadway, this has been the most astonishing, amazing part I\u2019ve had the privilege to play,\u201d she said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n Marla Adams was born on Aug. 28, 1938, in Ocean City, New Jersey. She was named Miss Diamond Jubilee at the 75th anniversary celebration of her hometown in 1954 and graduated two years later from Ocean City High School.<\/p>\n

\n She spent two years with The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and was hired for The Visit<\/em>, directed by Peter Brook, on the day she graduated. \u201cI played Alfred Lunt\u2019s daughter, and I thought, \u2018Well, it\u2019s going to be downhill from here,’\u201d she told<\/a> Soap Opera Digest<\/em> in 2018.<\/p>\n

\n Adams made her big-screen debut in the period drama Splendor in the Grass<\/em>, which was Warren Beatty\u2018s first movie, too.<\/p>\n

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Actors on \u2018The Secret Storm,\u2019 clockwise from left: Christina Crawford, Keith Charles, Nicolas Coster, Lori March, Jada Rowland and Marla Adams.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n After Belle made life miserable for Jada Rowland\u2019s Amy Ames on The Secret Storm<\/em>, she moved to Los Angeles when the soap was canceled and guest-starred on episodes of The New Dick Van Dyke Show<\/em>, Harry O<\/em>, Adam-12<\/em>, Starsky and Hutch<\/em>, Marcus Welby, M.D.<\/em>, Barnaby Jones<\/em>, The Love Boat<\/em>, Emergency!<\/em> and Archie Bunker\u2019s Place<\/em> before landing on Y&R<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n The actress also portrayed Mildred Deal on ABC\u2019s General<\/a> Hospital<\/em> in 1963; the conniving Myrna Clegg \u2014 between turns by Carolyn Jones and Marj Dusay \u2014 on CBS\u2019 Capitol<\/em> in 1983; Helen Mullin on NBC\u2019s Generations<\/em> in 1989-90; Beth Logan on CBS\u2019 The Bold and the Beautiful<\/em> in 1990-91; and Dr. Claire McIntyre on NBC\u2019s Days of Our Lives<\/em> in 1999.<\/p>\n

\n She was also nominated for a Daytime Emmy for her turn as Dina in 2018 before winning one three years later.<\/p>\n

\n Survivors include her children, Gunnar and Pam; grandchildren Gefjon and Stone; and great-grandson Remi.<\/p>\n

\n In her later years, Adams said she was still getting spotted in public. \u201cI\u2019m very big at Walmart,\u201d she said with a laugh. \u201cWhen I was younger, I was recognized all the time, and now that I\u2019m older, people are like, \u2018Is that her? No, that\u2019s not her. It couldn\u2019t be! Just some old lady in sneakers and sweats.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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