Mary Beth Evans Library

Sweetness and Light The Golden Days of Patch and Kayla By Naomi Rabinowitz Soap Opera Digest, September 19, 2006 The recently returned Steven Johnson and Kayla Brady (a.k.a. Patch and “Sweetness”) were one of soaps’ most beloved supercouples in the ‘80s and still remain one of the most popular pairings of all time.  Here’s a [...]

The Tangled Web Of Their Tortured Romance And A Look Ahead Towards Tomorrow Everything You Always Wanted To Know About General Hospital, March 1999 The Beginning… Katherine and Stefan were never a twosome that had an easy road in their love affair.  Their relationship began when Katherine, looking for Stefan’s nephew Nikolas with whom she [...]

The Vast Seduction  By Kristin Gallagher Additional Reporting by Tom Stacy Soap Opera Digest, December 8, 1998 Even by soap standards, the clandestine carryings-on of GENERAL HOSPITAL’s  Katherine Bell and her handsome young prince, Nikolas Cassadine, seemed too, too taboo.  Sure, it’s not the first time and older woman has fallen for a younger man [...]

General Hospital Katherine and Stefan (Mary Beth Evans & Stephen Nichols) Daytime TV, July 1998 THE LOVE STORY:  Passion always reigned supreme between these two dynamic daytime personalities.  Yet, there was always an emotional wall between them that prevented Katherine and Stefan from truly committing to each other.  The feelings they have for each other [...]

GH’s Stefan and Katherine Make Love – Finally! Soap Opera Digest, December 9, 1997 Katherine’s serenity at Serenity is interrupted this week when Stefan arrives with a doozy of a story to tell. “Katherine went to Serenity to get back a little piece of who she might have been before everything went wrong,” explains Mary [...]

Kat Can Do After scratching and clawing her way to the top, GENERAL HOSPITAL’s Katherine Bell proves she’s just a pussycat at heart. By Tom Stacy Soap Opera Digest, December 9, 1997 GENERAL HOSPITAL’s Katherine Bell may be a pillar of the Port Charles community now, but that hasn’t always been the case.  Time was [...]

  A Family Affair  By Rosemary Rossi Soap Opera News, August 26, 1997 To protect the interests of her family, Alexis schemes to plant the seed in Stefan’s mind that an affair with Katherine could be incestuous — that, indeed, they might be brother and sister. Why?  Katherine Bell, she of the shady and manipulative [...]

For Whom Miss Bell Tolls Soap Opera News, August 26, 1997 By Delaina Dixon Lost on a private island, shots suddenly ring out—and a woman is wounded.  Ironically, this fateful shooting led Katherine Bell into the arms of her most enigmatic lover to date, Stefan Cassadine.  But Katherine Bell has never believed in taking the straight—or [...]

STEFAN AND KATHERINE:  CAUGHT IN A WEB OF PASSION AND DANGER Soap Dish, July 29, 1997 By Sidney Lawson A few months ago, Stefan Cassadine thought he had everything he wanted after marrying Bobbie Jones:  power, money, control of General Hospital and the ability to destroy his enemy, Luke Spencer.  But when this cold and [...]

  If Looks Could Kill By Robin Echt Soap Opera Digest, March 25, 1997 Their eyes locked for a split second before Stefan’s bullet accidently struck Katherine.  In that suspended moment, their lives were inextricably linked.  Nightly hospital visits strengthened the bond: Paralyzed Katherine found the will to heal herself with comfort from this dark [...]