As a longtime viewer of CBS’s The Bold and the Beautiful, I have always enjoyed Susan Flannery as feisty matriarch Stephanie Douglas Forrester. But I’ve always wondered why we’ve never met anyone from Stephanie’s family, the Douglases. We do know they’re wealthy, since Steph’s father gave her and Eric (John McCook) the money to found their fashion house, Forrester Creations. We know little else… but that’s all about to change. B&B has cast Betty White — she of The Golden Girls and Mary Tyler Moore Show fame — as Stephanie’s estranged mother, Ann Douglas. Alley Mills — that’s Fred Savage’s mom from The Wonder Years! — has also been cast as Stephanie’s sister, Pamela Douglas. White and Mills begin their limited run on Friday, Dec. 1, when Steph reveals that her mother and sister are alive. She’ll also explain why she has distanced herself from them all these years — it’s not pretty. As much as I adored White as Rose on Golden Girls, I just looove it when she plays bitchy. Remember her as the deliciously nasty Sue Ann on MTM? BTW, this isn’t White’s first soap-opera cameo. She briefly appeared on Another World and Santa Barbara back in the ’80s.
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I love Betty White, she is one of the coolest actresses ever!
