An Afternoon with Louise Sorel

Celebrated widely as a flashy, aggressive and calculating villainess of daytime drama (Vivian Alamain in Days of Our Lives), Louise Sorel has given her opulent, show-stopping characters major doses of humor and grit, allowing her to become one of the soaps’ more popular figures. Now, she has captured her life more off stage than on in “If There Were No Dogs” or Musings and Mutterings, a bold new collection of poetry and prose.

Sorel states, “I’ve always felt the need to write poetry or prose about the moments that affected, informed, and struck me profoundly one way or another. The poems and prose pieces in this book about childhood and family, growing up and going into theater, traveling, marrying, auditioning, experiencing the national crises we all suffered through, living on this planet in general and in New York in particular, were written over many years.”

From her Broadway debut in 1961’s Take Her, She’s Mine starring Art Carney, Sorel co- starred with Rita Moreno in The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (1964), and through an ongoing list of drama and comic work on stage, film and television with the likes of George C. Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, Charles Boyer, Don Rickles, Lana Turner, and an endless array of others. Her credits range from I Remember Mama to An Evening of Proust, to Neil Simon’s Plaza Suite among film roles, to her memorable TV classics including Star Trek, Dr. Kildare, Night Gallery, Kojak, Bonanza, and a wealth more. Sorel then came to command daytime airwaves as lead villainous characters in Days of our Lives (“Vivian Alamain”), Santa Barbara, One Life to Live, and All My Children. Louise Sorel has made a career of artfully crossing barriers of genre and epoch. Her new book “If There Were No Dogs” or Musings and Mutterings, stands as a literary one-woman show.

“If There Were No Dogs” or Musings and Mutterings, by Louise Sorel is available now globally via: https://store.bookbaby.com/book/if-there-were-no-dogs