They (Anthony Geary/Genie Francis) had to be at the very least great friends for the entirely of Tony's time on General Hospital! Tony just hugs her with to much caring and sweetness for them not to be!
@taraparedez4720Ай бұрын
It’s interesting to finally see these. I started watching GH in 2008, falling in love with JaSam, I’d go back to watch JaSam on KZfaq since 2004. So I definitely understand being part of a fictional romance fandom. But when I told my mom I was watching GH, she told me she used to watch (before I was born) but this storyline actually made her stop watching. Even at the time she could not understand how the writers and fandom could root for a Luke and Laura romance after the rape. Maybe she understood things ahead of her time. But I’m glad my mom is the way she is and raised me the way she did. It’s crazy how many things that I grew up with that NEVER sat right with me (especially when it comes to rape - like putting rape into comedy or romance) that nowadays people are FINALLY admitting “it didn’t age well.” I understand the history and acceptance of it. I’m just so glad we’ve moved to a better understanding of this terrible act.
@CarolShook-yg9nnАй бұрын
Their break up was so honest and so real. It was heart breaking because they had grown apart but the love and mutual admiration was still there and always would be they're Luke and Laura 💔😢
@PhilomenaRomagnoli-fv2egАй бұрын
Love Laura here gorgeous 7 13 24
@heatherjohnson955Ай бұрын
They still have an opportunity to tie it up but TG won't return. I get it and I am so glad he's happy but I sure wish these two would write a few episodes and wrap it up.
@lindadowns2302 ай бұрын
I miss Jessie she was such a Nice person&great nurse👍 Poor Laura I felt so bad for her:( first David Hamilton now This
@lindadowns2302 ай бұрын
Genie Francisco’s such a Special Lady I Love❤️ Her there’s just Something About Her. There Always was 💯she was so cute when she was 17 and first came in the show. And her abs A/G have the Best Chemistry 💯
@annettehunt9002 ай бұрын
Oh he helped her up and she side hugged him and arm is around her.
@natalieparcher38272 ай бұрын
So Perfect!🥰LnL
@yvonnecooper50043 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday Ms Francis 2024❤
@sandyRndisco13 ай бұрын
First it was rape, then later on Laura tells Luke it was making love, then years late Luke says it was rape (when telling his kids) just which is it? However, Laura did yell out no Luke no. No means no so in my opinion she was not a willing participant even though she claims later it was making love. Just exactly what was it Laura? Besides, she lies for him too lies about where it happened, how, & who did it.
@carolynstewart84653 ай бұрын
Usual roadblocks for the usual suspects!
@jackiefertik21414 ай бұрын
No Laura felt safe with Scotty that’s why she married him so young she really never was in love with him he was her safe base against the Hamilton affair but when everything settle down being married was. A bore she grew very very restless
@sailingseaofstars4 ай бұрын
I.never knee the story I remember seeing them on the island, all of the uploads are.so interesting. I like that they wesr normal clothing and aren't dressed up all the time.
@butteheadbuttrack47284 ай бұрын
I love that Genie Francis brought her daughter Eliza with her to the Emmy s. She is a beautiful lady inside and out.
@missboss87594 ай бұрын
Luke is gorgeous.
@yvonnecooper50044 ай бұрын
It's his eyes!! A sense of humor is always sexy too. He loved Laura and protected her❤😢
@karendunson40494 ай бұрын
There has never been a couple like this.
@yvonnecooper50044 ай бұрын
Hey fans!! GH is 61 years old today. Happy anniversary. Luke and Laura you have not been forgotten. You set the bar very high. Much love forever a Luke and Laura fan ❤😢
@Prairiepagan3165 ай бұрын
I am still salty that they broke them up. LnL Forever ♥️
@yvonnecooper50045 ай бұрын
Yep. It was a heartbreaking 💔 and foolish choice. They are much loved and missed. I luke take my Laura wow!!!❤😢
@carolynstewart84655 ай бұрын
Miss them❤
@yvonnecooper50044 ай бұрын
I miss them too.❤😢.
@TrudyRobinson-ny2lx5 ай бұрын
Why why why did the writers tear the family apart 😢😢😢😢😢
@lindadowns2305 ай бұрын
I use to think that it was Scotty who had the Problem. And he was Controlling. But it was Laura who had the Issues&Problem!!! It Started with David Hamilton. And then Luke!!! Scotty tried everything he could to Actually Help Laura! He agreed to go to counseling and was patient. Tried to talk to her. She was Able to talk to her Rapists about all her problems!!! Of Course Scotty didn’t want her to work @the Disco After everything that happened there. And I thought he was coming between her&luke. But in fact it was Luke who caused all the trouble. I actually feel bad for Scotty now!!! He was a good husband. I felt bad for laura too. I never understood why she would continue to hang out with Luke and work for him after everything he did too her? It was Confusing till this day too say the least.
@mar-jax93413 күн бұрын
Because Laura was already falling for Luke before the "R"
@lindadowns2305 ай бұрын
Jessie was Great💯
@lindadowns2305 ай бұрын
That Idiot Nurese! No you don’t no how it feels or can’t imagine Inre to being Raped
@lindadowns2305 ай бұрын
I Always Felt Bad For Laura
@the_Real_Grammy_of_65 ай бұрын
I vaguely remember watching this episode when it first aired. The year was 1979. Genie was 17 years old when she did this storyline. What I do remember was the way Jessie helped Laura. That was something that stuck with me through the years. I was a young teenager at the time. I think this is the reason that I didn’t realize what an incredible job Genie did for this particular episode. Watching it now, close to being 59 years old, it’s like seeing it for the first time. I am so impressed by her acting, especially for this storyline, for being only 17 years old. Then I remembered something about the first (and only) time Miss Francis won an Emmy - 2007. So I had to research the history of the Emmy’s and Genie Francis. I am so disappointed about her being, pretty much, ignored for TOO MANY YEARS. She didn’t win an Emmy until 2007 - the only time she’s won. She’s only been nominated 5 times, in all the years she played Laura!!! However the thing that makes me wonder - if the “Powers That Be” actually watched the show at all - is that Genie wasn’t even nominated for this storyline 😠 (Her first nomination wasn’t until 1997). It took 10 more years until she actually won the award. This is disgusting. She was still a young/new/actress when she played this storyline - and as I said, only 17 years old. I’ve watched Genie play Laura since 1978 (on & off). I cannot believe that the Emmy people ignored her for so many years. It must have been heartbreaking for her to not even be nominated for so long, and watch Tony Geary win and win and win - EVERY TIME HE DESERVED IT. Not only should she have been nominated for her acting skills in this story, she should have won!!
@yvonnecooper50046 ай бұрын
I know over sentimental but Imagine in the first scene and the attic scene tony saying just look into my eyes..❤ sigh.😊
@judithhall67256 ай бұрын
So many enjoyable hours watching those two. There will never be another Love story like theirs on any show. Miss them very much. Sometimes I watch the video over and over of their Wedding. She was the most beautiful bride I ever saw
@yvonnecooper50044 ай бұрын
Her dress was one of the most beautiful I have ever seen. Their ratings record is still unbroken decades later. I know I'm among many forever Luke and Laura fans here❤😢.
@stephanieconsi48256 ай бұрын
This was beautiful. ❤
@yvonnecooper50044 ай бұрын
This is one of my favorite also. I would love to learn how to make a Luke and Laura video too.
@Luv2u016 ай бұрын
We are all only here for a time. True love does not come to us all. Luke and Laura was that for many of us and should have also been our happy ever after. But alas it wasn’t so. May we at least dream that it was and and they will be together in the sky when Laura joins Luke who has gone before her. 😔🙏
@phylliss25177 ай бұрын
There will never ever be another Luke and Laura. Absolutely amazing together. I watched from the first time they ever met. It has truly been an amazing adventure in soap opera history. Their love for each other is once in a lifetime.
@tcardinal16127 ай бұрын
The way Leslie, Rick, and Scott were constantly telling Laura how/what she needed to feel by sheltering and hovering. That should have been a clue. Laura was too young for marriage!
@karendunson40497 ай бұрын
Best couple that has ever been in daytime tv. There will never be another couple like Luke and Laura. 30 million viewers proved that.
@angiechambless10927 ай бұрын
Luke was very family orientated. The videos prove it. Laura and his kids were everything to him. I hate they changed him.
@karendunson40497 ай бұрын
They should have kept them together forever. General Hospital messed up bad.
@karendunson40497 ай бұрын
They should have kept them together forever. General Hospital messed up bad.
@vandouglasjr16138 ай бұрын
I am a black guy and back in the day I was a teenager watching Luke and Laura and I remember my home boys giving me a hard time calling me soft because I watched I didn't give a shit but when we got on the basketball court I showed them who was soft
@debrahubbard7638 ай бұрын
I rewatch this when I'm sad, and it makes me happy. Love Luke's little grin! Thank you Tony and Genie!
@lindarunyon15558 ай бұрын
The Luke and Laura team are as good as any team that has ever been ..then, now, or ever ..solid magic between them ..they sure knew how to stir the emotion and bring the hot 🔥..thank you Tony and Genie for the years of great entertainment ...❤
@karendunson40498 ай бұрын
They should never have broke them up. The only couple to have 30 million viewers.
@karendunson40498 ай бұрын
No other couple could compare to Luke and Laura.
@yvonnecooper50046 ай бұрын
The angel and her hero.
@karendunson40498 ай бұрын
No other couple but Luke and Laura. Forever together
@yvonnecooper50046 ай бұрын
I agree very loyal fans decades later. They are loved and missed.😢
@tcardinal16128 ай бұрын
GF has always said, "Laura has an off switch"
@mowthpeece18 ай бұрын
She covers for him and goes into denial because she really does have feelings for Luke and what happened is causing too much dissonance. They DO have a bond here forward. Like she was bitten by a vampire. There's no escaping it. This is deep, archetypal stuff. It was like putting a garden hose into the vein of every red blooded female on earth. We were as hooked as she was. What genius. Incredible performances!
@crowsandravens89984 ай бұрын
Well said. Long live Luke and Laura.
@mowthpeece18 ай бұрын
I am posting the following on several of these episodes. We have younger people watching who simply do not understand the context of this entire story and how it ended like it did (and some older folk, even now). The following is my opinion, but 30 million people might have agreed in 1981... 1) Females evolved being attacked, raped, taken hostage, etc., by males since time immemorial. Falling in love with your rapist - if he forced you to stay with him - is a gift. It meant survival. And we absolutely can do it. We have names like Stockholm Syndrome to identify it in modern terms, but it's in our DNA. Think Elizabeth Smart if you need help with it. This in no way means it's ok. It's not. Today we are citizens with rights. It was always wrong, but today it means a long prison sentence when you get caught (and you will, DNA tests are cheap and easy) so I don't recommend anyone try it thinking they want to play caveman. 2) In the 1970's "bodice-ripper" historical romances were all the rage, just like this show became. 3) WE didn't see the attack and so we are forced to imagine what happened. Luke did not beat her. It was not violent beyond him forcing himself on her. It would later be called what we know today to be date rape. On this issue, this show was ahead of its time. 4) This is fiction. It's important to remember that. But the issue is real. 5) Luke blacked out. He believed himself dead and was drunk as a skunk. These are not excuses, they are explanations for how he could lose his mind temporarily. Today experts know about temporary psychosis, that is what happened to him. 6) As a male organism, Luke, believing he was about to die, would ABSOLUTELY be moved to try to reproduce. This is a quintessential evolutionary drive. Soldiers before going off to war almost always leave pregnant wives back home for the same reason. 7) I don't know if Gloria Monty considered this at this level, but it's what happens in these scenarios. Her bravery in taking a scenario out of best-selling novels and putting it on daytime television cannot be overstated. It was shocking. But we American girls and women were ALREADY accepting of these types of "love stories" through our paperback choices. We instinctively understood the dynamics involved. Particularly since it was FICTION. 8) Luke was about to be killed and so was Geary and the show in its entirety. But the viewers - we American women - LOVED THEM together so much that WE forced Monty and her staff to rewrite the story and KEEP THEM TOGETHER. If you want someone to blame, blame US. Their chemistry, and Tony's incredible charisma, saved the show and broke records. 9) You can be mad at it, but evolution is not political. It gives not one shit about what's PC and what isn't. It's violent. It's ugly. And it's all about reproduction. There was no "dating" with wine and roses in the Paleolithic savannah. And we are absolutely from that. It's why men so easily kill each other to this day. Deal with it. Then be grateful men evolved to allow us rights, because they can take them away at any time. 10) Luke Spencer is an incredibly complex and enigmatic character as played by Anthony Geary. He is irresistible! If anyone has not watched the slow burn of their relationship from beginning to end, do not comment. Watch it all first. Then comment. I dare you not to fall in love with him too, along with 30 million other viewers. 11) and lastly; This is an archetypal story. It's the same one as Phantom of the Opera, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, and countless others out there. It is THAT POWERFUL. And if you're not mad at those fictional stories, why be mad at this? I wish you all peace and great love in your lives! May you find a love like the one Luke had for Laura! L&L forever!
@mowthpeece18 ай бұрын
"We're all very glad that you're alive. It's a very good thing to be alive. You just hang onto that." She says that because so often raped women are murdered. At least then. Today with DNA testing it's a whole other thing. Still happens, though. The things women tolerate at the hands of men, SMH, since like, forever. Disgusting. This was at the hands of a trusted friend...that they were about to kill off. Watch his reactions to this in the coming weeks. It's what makes American women demand he stay on as a partner for Laura. It's some of the best acting in history.
@tinaxykis41726 ай бұрын
well said.
@user-zx4us8es6z9 ай бұрын
I want to know why Luke looked directly into the camera before he kisser her. ha ha
@kathyarrick41759 ай бұрын
I have never seen a man love his woman like Luke does.
@debrahubbard7637 ай бұрын
Tell me that man doesn't love his family!
@debrahubbard7639 ай бұрын
Luke hair is really long. You don't notice it with the curls.