Paul Rauch
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Paul Rauch is a producer of American soap operas.
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[edit] Another World
Rauch is best known for his work on Another World, which he produced from 1972 to 1983. For much of that time, he worked in conjunction with headwriter Harding Lemay, and the team garnered the show critical acclaim and strong ratings. Rauch's realistic production values were in sync with Lemay's melodramatic storytelling style.
Rauch led the show to an expanded hour format in 1975, which was a success. However, a subsequent time expansion to 90 minutes in 1979 was unsuccessful, and had a negative effect on the show for several years afterwards.
While still producing Another World, he also helped create an AW spinoff, Texas, which lasted from 1980 to 1982.
[edit] Other credits
Following his stint on Another World, he produced One Life to Live from 1984 to 1991, Santa Barbara from 1991 to 1993, and Guiding Light from 1996 to 2002. Most recently, he was consulting producer to a period-drama aired on Russian television, called Bednaya Nastya.
[edit] Controversy
Rauch has become a controversial figure among some soap fans.
- His production stints at One Life to Live and Guiding Light featured sci-fi plots such as cloning and time-travel.
- He has also had some conflicts with several of the actors on the shows he has produced. Ellen Holly, who played Carla on One Life to Live for nearly two decades, wrote in her autobiography "One Life" about how Rauch told Lillian Hayman, who played Holly's on-screen mother, Sadie, as she was walking to her car after a day's taping that she was fired and that she had just taped her last episode. Several other actors, such as Maeve Kinkead and Lisa Brown, have had strong personal or professional differences with Rauch.
- He fired three very popular actors from Another World in 1975: Virginia Dwyer (Mary Matthews), George Reinholt (Steve Frame), and Jacqueline Courtney (Alice Matthews Frame). The death of Mary Matthews was particularly shocking as she was the matriarch of the main family and her death occurred on Good Friday.
[edit] Positions
- Executive Producer (December 1971 - Spring 1983)
- Executive Producer (November 1996 - December 24, 2002)
- Executive Producer (June 1984-January 1991)
- Executive Producer (1992 - January 15th 1993)
- Co-Creator
Executive Producer (1980-1981)
[edit] Trivia
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Rauch was in the last frame of the show Santa Barbara. An avid cigar aficionado, Rauch is show on the studio floor stomping his cigar out with his foot and then walking away.
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| Preceded by Lyle B. Hill |
Executive Producer of Another World 1972-1984 |
Succeeded by Allen Potter |
| Preceded by Jean Arley |
Executive Producer of One Life to Live 1984-1991 |
Succeeded by Linda Gottlieb |
| Preceded by John Conboy |
Executive Producer of Santa Barbara 1992-1993 |
Succeeded by N/A |
| Preceded by Michael Laibson |
Executive Producer of Guiding Light 1996-2002 |
Succeeded by John Conboy |
