Congratulations to the most faithful ones
By Giorgio De Martino, Beautiful, 1993	Home   Cette page en Français

It is perhaps because she was born on the day of the atomic bomb, August 6 (but it was in 1941 and not 1945), that Louise Sorel had a fairly explosive life. It should be added that the exuberant character of Leo (her Zodiac sign) is the one that suits the cheerful and ruthless world of entertainment where standing out is difficult. The actress was born and raised in Hollywood, where Daddy Sorel was a major film producer who, in the 1940s and 1950s, worked with stars such as John Wayne, Rock Hudson, James Stewart and Lauren Bacall.

But around the age of eighteen, things radically changed because her father found himself, as often happens in the entertainment world, without a job overnight. Barely an adult, she emigrated to New York in search of fortune, then to England. Young and above all sexy, she became famous not only for her acting talent but also because of two famous actors Maurice Chevalier and Olivier Reed did everything to seduce her.

Louise also tried to marry a high school friend at 23 years old : it didn't work. She did an encore with actor Ron Howard (the one from Happy Days), another fiasco. She never made a third attempt.

In the late '60s, she starred in The Survivors, a highly publicized TV show (it was a memorable fiasco). She worked on Broadway and other soap operas and comedies until the 1980s, when she became famous for her part of Augusta Lockridge in Santa Barbara, a casual and unscrupulous character married to a millionaire. In the show, Louise had a Doberman with a collar studded with (real ones !) diamonds and intrigued viewers with her sexy adventures and "erotic fantasies".

The actress left Santa Barbara in 1986 for Days of Our Lives, in the part of Vivian Alamain. "People think I look exactly like the characters I play," says Louise, "but that's not the case. They think I live in a mansion in Beverly Hills and go shopping in the morning in a Rolls-Royce with a chauffeur. None of that. I've had a busy life and I'm certainly not bored, but now it's different. I live more in France than in Los Angeles. I focus on the simple things in life And then I'm tired of fighting for scripts and lovers : both always give disappointments. Now, my best friend is Wheaton, my terrier, to whom I drink a toast with all my heart. As the saying goes : "the more you know people, the more you love animals". Of all, he is certainly the most faithful companion, who rewards me at all times with his presence and his affection. Who knows if my new Parisian love, much younger than me, will be able to do the same..."

Soon, Italian viewers of Santa Barbara will no longer see the familiar face of the villainous Augusta Wainwright Lockridge, the wife of millionaire Lionel, who is about to know her final act. Augusta is kidnapped and her husband asks his longtime rival C.C. Capwell for the missing ransom money. The millionaire helps him but is not convinced... He is not entirely wrong because when Augusta is released, she reveals to her husband that the kidnapping was only a set-up. Indeed, she is in love with one of the criminals with whom she organized the false kidnapping. The goal ? To flee definitively with the money and the bandit.

Birth : In Hollywood on August 6, 1941

First success : On Broadway in the comedy Take Her, She's Mine

Funniest encounter : With Woody Allen when she was supposed to do a comedy with him that was never broadcast

Hobby : Spanish dance, especially flamenco, traveling, visiting Europe and especially France

Fault : She never knows how to keep quiet and then she regrets what she said

Quality : She never begrudge anybody

Most sincere friend : Dame Judith Anderson who played the part of Minx Lockridge in Santa Barbara (the actress, senior member of soap operas, who died last year at the age of 93)