Steve Frame is a fictitious character from NBC's afternoon soap opera Other World .
He was first described by George Reinholt from 1968 to 1975 (Reinholt returned in 1989 for the 25th anniversary of the show who played as a ghost) and David Canary from 1981 to 1983. During the six-year break between Reinholt and the Canary, Steve was considered killed in a helicopter crash in Australia. When David Canary took over the role, it was explained that Steve had plastic surgery on his face but suffered amnesia for years until he returned to Bay City.
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Character history
Born in 1940 in Chadwell, Oklahoma, Steven Frame was one of eight children born to Henry and Jenny Frame. His brothers include Emma Frame Ordway's sister, Janice Frame and Sharlene Frame Watts, and Vince Frame's brothers, Willis Frame, Jason Frame, and Henry Frame Jr. Homemade millionaire land developer and half-owner Bay City Bangles, city football team, Steven Frame first came to Bay City in 1967 for business and pretty much kept a low profile, but did not make his community debut until the following year when he attended an Attorney's wedding Walter Curtain District to Lenore Moore on July 1, 1968.
At a reception held at Bay City Country Club, Steve introduced himself to Lenore's best friend and bridesmaid, Alice Matthews (Jacqueline Courtney). It was also at the reception that she met Alice, a sly, money-rich sister-in-law Rachel Matthews (Robin Strasser). Steve and Alice instantly fascinated each other and started dating. Steve falls in love with Alice, who is the only person who calls him by his full name Steven. Alice is also delighted when she hires her father Jim to handle accounting for Steve's Bay City office. Though she was encouraged by Rachel to not let her handsome and rich suits leave, Alice was completely unaware of Rachel's real intentions at first: she wanted Steve for herself and was determined to have it, and even went so far as to find any reason for dating Alice and Steve with her husband, Russ Matthews (Sam Groom), Alice's brother, and newly interned doctor.
Rachel did not understand what Steve saw in Alice. She's too sweet and too nice. Rachel believes she needs a real woman, and she is determined to be that woman to her. Steve has something in common with Rachel that she does not have with Alice: they both come from the same poor background, though Steve is much poorer than Rachel (a flashback episode of 1972 shows that Steve grew up in a broken family where his father was rude). One night Rachel visits Steve in her apartment; he was depressed after a fight with Alice. Taking full advantage of Steve's vulnerability, Rachel seduced him. Rachel destroys Steve and Alice's wedding plans when, on the eve of the engagement party of Alice and Steve, she confronts Alice and tells him that she not only loves Steve but also that she is carrying her baby. Alice is cool and calm then confronts Steve and asks about his affair and whether maybe he is Rachel's baby father. Steve finally admits that it's possible. Rachel gave birth to a boy and named him James Gerald "Jamie" Matthews and handed him over as Russ's son. Russ finally found the truth and divorced Rachel.
When the 1970s were ushered in, Steve and Alice eventually married in September 1971. Their marriage lasted until June 1973 after the relentless obstacle ripped them off. Rachel (now played by Victoria Wyndham) is still determined to have Steve for himself and gladly use their son as a weapon. Alice suffered a miscarriage and left Bay City for New York City. There he found a job as a private nurse for a young boy named Dennis Carrington (Mike Hammett). Steve marries Rachel to give Jamie (Robert Doran) a stable family, but he still misses Alice. Alice has moved back to Bay City and Steve begs him not to marry Dennis's father, Eliot (James Douglas). Alice agrees to give her a second chance. Steve asks Rachel to divorce, but she does not want to give it to him. Desperate, Steve is forced to bribe Rachel's father, Gerald Davis, to testify on his behalf when he sues Rachel for divorce, which is finally awarded with her getting full custody of Jamie. Bribing his father-in-law will come soon to haunt Steve when Gerald speaks to John Randolph (Michael M. Ryan), lawyer and brother-in-law Steve (wife of John, Pat is Alice's sister) that Steve bribes him to testify, thinking John is in Steve's scheme. John informed the police of Gerald's allegations against Steve. As a result of John's betrayal, Steve was arrested, but was given permission to marry Alice again on May 4, 1974 ( 10th Birthday of Another World) .
Steve was ordered to report to prison the next day after their marriage and serve a six-month sentence. Not long after Steve was imprisoned, Alice suffered a mental breakdown. He finally committed to the sanitarium and after being released determined to reunite with Steve. Rachel is still angry when Steve returns to Alice and threatens to drive Alice away from the house that Steve built for her, believing that she deserves to stay there as the mother of her son. A few months later when Rachel plans to move, she is surprised to see Steve waiting for her, accompanied by her stepfather Gil McGowan (Dolph Sweet), the town police chief, who is in prison for Steve's temporary release. Steve ended his step on the spot.
When Steve was officially released from prison he then went to see Alice, but he refused. Rachel goes on a scheme to separate them, but Steve and Alice finally get back together. In May 1975, when he and Steve restored their lives again, Alice, and all Bay City, received tragic news: Steve was allegedly killed in a helicopter crash in Australia, where he went into business. It was at this point that the two women in Steve's life underwent major changes: Alice is in the process of adopting an orphan girl named Sally Spencer, and Rachel, with the help of her current husband, the publisher of Mac Cory (Douglass Watson) magazine, begins to abandon her evil way of becoming a woman who are compassionate and loving (even though they have their own rocky relationship). Alice (now played by Susan Harney) tries her best to continue, but never really finds true love. He left Bay City for a while, but eventually returned.
Six years later, in October 1981, a mysterious entrepreneur named Edward Black (David Canary) arrived in Bay City, studying images and news clippings about Alice (now played by Linda Borgeson). Alice was then engaged to Mac Cory, who was divorced from Rachel. But it soon became clear that Edward Black was not the man he claimed. At a formal party, Black drops a bomb that surprises all Bay City: he's actually Steve Frame! Apparently Steve survived an accident in Australia the year before, but suffered amnesia and underwent plastic surgery on his face. He has returned not only with Alice and Jamie (now played by Richard Bekins), but also to continue his position as head of Frame Construction. Alice has broken her engagement with Mac after Steve returns and they try to continue their relationship, but after being trapped in one of the construction sites with Rachel, their interest is raised and they reunite. Rachel and Steve are driving to the airport (on their way to remarry) when they crash their car. Steve was killed and Rachel survived, but blinded. Six months later, after regaining his eyesight and realizing that he never stopped loving the Mac, Rachel remarried for the third time (and last) in a double ceremony with the son of Mac Sandy Cory (Christopher Rich) and Sandy bride, Blaine Ewing (Laura Malone).
Although Jamie loves Mac as a father, he never forgets Steve. When Jamie (now played by Laurence Lau) welcomes a son with his wife Vicky (Anne Heche), they name him Steven.
Six years after Steve's death, he will return again, but as a ghost (George Reinholt repeats his role for the 25th anniversary of the Other World) to help Rachel, who experiences an out-of-body experience while her body lies unconscious, overcome with gas, in the engine room of a cruise ship where the 25th Birthday party for Cory Publishing was held. She is attracted by the evil spirit of Steve's sister, Janice Frame (Christine Jones) to die, but Steve arrives and tells Rachel that this is not the time to die and that she must return, which she did.
Later, Steve visits Jamie, who struggles against the fact that Vicky has lied to him and that he may not be Steven's father. Steve gives Jamie a wise word and tells him how proud he is with that man. Steve tells his only son, he loves him and disappears forever into eternity.
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References
- http://www.anotherworldhomepage.com/1steve.html
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