When Suzanne Rogers was hired to play Maggie Simmons on Days of Our Lives in 1973, she was completely unfamiliar with daytime dramas.

“I had never watched a soap,” she explains. “I had done theater, which was nighttime, and matinees during the day, so I had never been home to watch a soap, and I didn’t know anything about the workings of a soap. All of a sudden, they signed me to a seven-year contract, and I went, ‘Whoa, OK.’ For the first time in my life, I wasn’t worried about a show opening and closing in a year or not getting a show at all.”

Despite landing the role that would define her career, Days wasn’t originally where Rogers was headed. In fact, Rogers was being considered to be a part of the original cast of The Young and the Restless , which was created by Days’

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