Whoever wrote this scene had to have delved into hours and hours of footage of Susan Lucci and Francis Heflin playing Mon and Erica. You have to have really watched the show from its inception to understand this scene, why it makes so much sense and why it happened. Erica was at times AWFUL to her mother and at times Mona just couldn't understand Erica. In fact most of the time Mona didn't get her. Yet they KNEW each other like books. The love was so evident played in strong undertone to it best. People do grieve this way. It takes countless hours of friendship, love, arguing, a lifetime of living next to each other to come to a moment like this. The writer knew the characters well. In fact in watching the two from the beginning one knew on the very first day we met these characters in 1970, that this would be the way it would have to be.
Beautifully stated Brian Lavalle! And yes you are right people do grieve this way. One of the reasons that this scene was so gut-wrenching for me is because I had lost my dad a couple years before. He and I did not have the relationship that Erica and her mother did but I was very very close to him and I had a similar reaction at the cemetery when they put him in the ground. So that brought back so many memories and kudos to Susan Lucci for getting through it because we do all know that Fran Heflin played her mother for about twenty-four or twenty-five years and they were very close. So she had to go through the grieving at the real funeral and get through her grief and then she had to come back to work and relive it all over again. That doesn't happen that often because oftentimes when soap characters die they're just being written off the show. But in this case that actual actress passed away and she was a very beloved actress as was the character that she played and then we had to deal with the TV funeral for her character. When I need a good cry I always come here.
@@trcooper5793 It make me think of my mother and me losing her in 2000. My mother used to get so angry at the way Erica spoke to Mona. And now that I look back on the love and loyalty we sometimes take for granted. I drink up every precious memory I had with my mom who also a single parent and a nurse like Mona.
totally agree. I mean half of all of Erica's scene, always included Mona. She was the only one that could bring Erica's histrionics down with one look. The actress who played Mona was always serene, that you couldn't help but empathize. This was perfectly written and directed. Having had the pleasure of working on that set. It ran smoothly and made wonderful art. Bravo!
This scene was powerful. Erica has always been selfish, a snob, and thought she was better than so many people. Mona was probably the only person in Erica's life who truly accepted her for all the things she was, like any good mother would, and Erica knew this. It's so hard to lose the one person who is your cheerleader in life and believes in you and anything you do despite your flaws.
I just lost my Mom. I am devastated and heartbroken. At the Hospital right after my Mom passed away, I begged her not to go, to not leave me, that I love her & I need her. I had to watch this scene again after so many years because I remembered that somehow the way I behaved seemed familiar. Wow, what a powerful scene & great acting. I wish that I was only acting. I do know that Susan Lucci was very close to Fran Heflin so I am sure that her emotions were real. RIP Mom & Fran Heflin.
This was one of the most moving scenes ever on AMC. Having watched from the begining always loved the relationship between Erika and Mona. Beneath all the fighting and Erika's often terrible treatment of Mona, you could always feel a deep love between the two. Of course this was made possible by the wonderful acting of Susan Lucci and the brilliant Frances Heflin.
@@cuzitsnecessary When My Father died, it took me seven months to break down and cry. I had no idea how much pain and grief I was holding inside. I felt that I had to be strong for My Mother.
I got scolded at both my Father's funeral and at my Mother's funeral for doing the hysterical cry. I wanted to tell the jerk pastor to shove it. What did he expect from me? Laughter and rolling in the aisle
This is exactly how I was when my son passed away. I thought i was leaving him in the cemetery alone i couldn't grasp the fact that he's in a much better place. Its so hard.
What was so sad was that Erica realized how much chaos she put poor Mona through, from the time she was a teenager, to tom finding the birth control pills to kendall, and richard fields. I think that sometimes mona felt guilty that Eric Kane wasn't there for her more and ended up a D List Celebrity.
I remember when this moment happened. It was such a big deal. I like to believe that this wasn't acting for Susan lucci, because in acting circles when you grow close in playing an on screen family for so long and then one part of that family is no longer around and you acknowledge their absence onscreen especially in something like this, the lines between fiction and reality blur.
When my son Sam died, I was completely numb making all the services (I was 16 weeks pregnant when I lost him) and at the end of the service my husband told me it was time to leave and I started screaming that I couldn't leave my baby, he needed a bottle and he needed his mommy. He would be 10 now and I miss him every day.
I'm sorry for your loss. Man I couldn't imagine what it be like carrying a human being inside of you for 16 weeks then miscarry. I'd feel like a murderer. Hopefully you were able to have another one Maureen
francis heflin was loved by all of the cast membsrs of the show- and- by susan- long before 1999- she should have gotten the 1994 daytime emmy for best actress in a daytime drama series- this was - by far- susan's most powrefullllllllllllllll and most difficult scene everrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Poor Erica I know how you feel I lost my mother to cancer hurt never goes away blessed her heart Demetri is good guy but Jack & Erica are the best Super Hot Couple always forever True Love Love😂😂😂😂😂😂😍😧😟😮✋
This scene teared me up on my first viewing. It made me sad more knowing Mona's actress died around that time. Which i understand why they killed the character off so they can pay tribute to both the actress and the character. RIP Mona and Frances Heflin
I lost my grandma in 2019 to lung cancer my family hasn’t been the same since I wish she could come back just one day to tell them it’ll be alright every body just so distant now
@jess4metoo Thanks for setting the record straight. Although I haven't really watched since about 2000, I'm gonna miss AMC. I guess one takes things for granted, thought it would be a constant. I've been watching since 1970, yep! And I'm a guy.
My husband told me that when his father died (years before I was in the picture) his Mom broke down at the funeral and gripped the casket bawling and yelling "stosha (German for Stanley) why did you leave me? Come back!"
@heula1 But he was sitting next to Dixie in the funeral home. ...and thanks for setting the record straight about Janet still being Jane here. I'm gonna miss AMC.
Ernestine Maloy Word, because the acting really isn’t good at all. It’s actually cringe worthy and not to be disrespectful, I see why it took her 29 years to get an daytime emmy award.
@@a.b.sproductionsllc ikr bcuz I watched a doc about soaps the production level excruciatingly SLOW and in the old days like on dark shadows my FAVORITE soap of all time btw it was LIVE so if they messed up a line or some out of the way thing happened there was NO take two....DS is a riot to watch today back when i was 10 damn thing gave me nightmares in the fucking DAYTIME ...and I'm not exaggerating in the least in fact I'm surprised mom let me watch that stuff ...well it was 1972...🙄
@@a.b.sproductionsllc yeah SL was the melodrama queen used to love to hate her only person worse than erica was silver kane her sister...boy if it's possible I hated HER even more...LOL
Ernestine Maloy A number of soaps were done live up until the mid 70’s. I believe “Edge of Night” was the last daytime soap to do live, and then “Search For Tomorrow” did it in the 80’s for one episode which people believe it was a publicity stunt. I think soaps moved at more of a slower pace back then but it did keep people glued more. Today, I think our attention span short. One soap that I think moved at a good pace and I have been binge watching is “The Doctors” the flow of storylines lasted just the right amount of time. “Dark Shadows” was one of my mom’s favorite soaps, but then again there probably wasn’t a pre-teen or teenager that wasn’t crazy about that show. It ran from 1966-71. I discovered it on Sci-fi Channel in the early 2000’s.
Nick was a close friend to Mona which irritated Erica fearing Mona might replace her father for Nick. Years later he became one of Erica's many ex lovers that she wanted, but couldn't really have to commit to her, because Erica's love for the glamorous life and Nick's close relationship with Mona he felt it would never work and wanted her to truly be happy.
If these were black people, they wouldn’t find Erica Kane’s grief that strange at the funeral. Gripping the coffin and crying uncontrollably is pretty standard at black funerals! ;)
@@deontyler960 Another ex husband. Mona also did not really like him was my recollection. Mona got along well with Dimitri, Jack, Nick, Tom, Jeremy, Travis.
@@skaterboy-cz9wj That could be true I started watching All My Children around late 1991. I used to think that both Susan Lucci and David Canary was such good actors that with the right storyline they would have made a popular soap couple cause they were similar in ways.
The reason Erica is in histrionics is because she knows she didn't treat her mom very well in life and now it's too late to make amends. I've seen it in my own family and others.
@jess4metoo Oh, that's right. I think he got permission to leave the hospital earlier than he was supposed to. Didn't he have an IV by him or something? And wasn't "Jane" revealed to be Janet when Harold interrupted her wedding to Trevor with her medicine bottle? Lol. ABC Daytime was must-see TV for my mom and me through jr. high and high school!
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Susan Lucci was Wonderful in that scene. Absolutely made me cry! Don't understand how she didn't get an Emmy for this scene Alone!!!
I can't stop crying. Susan did a fantastic job in that scene.
PeytonJo16 One of so many years that she was robbed of the Emmy.
Whitney Davis - she was - it was heartbreaking- year after year - she definitely deserved more than 1 - They robbed Susan .
I’m actually going through this right now with my mom. I don’t want her to leave me.
i forgot how powerful this was....Susan gave her all in this....it is hard to see this and not cry
Whoever wrote this scene had to have delved into hours and hours of footage of Susan Lucci and Francis Heflin playing Mon and Erica. You have to have really watched the show from its inception to understand this scene, why it makes so much sense and why it happened. Erica was at times AWFUL to her mother and at times Mona just couldn't understand Erica. In fact most of the time Mona didn't get her. Yet they KNEW each other like books. The love was so evident played in strong undertone to it best. People do grieve this way. It takes countless hours of friendship, love, arguing, a lifetime of living next to each other to come to a moment like this. The writer knew the characters well. In fact in watching the two from the beginning one knew on the very first day we met these characters in 1970, that this would be the way it would have to be.
Beautifully stated Brian Lavalle! And yes you are right people do grieve this way. One of the reasons that this scene was so gut-wrenching for me is because I had lost my dad a couple years before. He and I did not have the relationship that Erica and her mother did but I was very very close to him and I had a similar reaction at the cemetery when they put him in the ground. So that brought back so many memories and kudos to Susan Lucci for getting through it because we do all know that Fran Heflin played her mother for about twenty-four or twenty-five years and they were very close. So she had to go through the grieving at the real funeral and get through her grief and then she had to come back to work and relive it all over again. That doesn't happen that often because oftentimes when soap characters die they're just being written off the show. But in this case that actual actress passed away and she was a very beloved actress as was the character that she played and then we had to deal with the TV funeral for her character.
When I need a good cry I always come here.
@@trcooper5793 It make me think of my mother and me losing her in 2000. My mother used to get so angry at the way Erica spoke to Mona. And now that I look back on the love and loyalty we sometimes take for granted. I drink up every precious memory I had with my mom who also a single parent and a nurse like Mona.
totally agree. I mean half of all of Erica's scene, always included Mona. She was the only one that could bring Erica's histrionics down with one look. The actress who played Mona was always serene, that you couldn't help but empathize. This was perfectly written and directed. Having had the pleasure of working on that set. It ran smoothly and made wonderful art. Bravo!
Mona’s cancer storyline happened in 1993.
This scene was powerful. Erica has always been selfish, a snob, and thought she was better than so many people. Mona was probably the only person in Erica's life who truly accepted her for all the things she was, like any good mother would, and Erica knew this. It's so hard to lose the one person who is your cheerleader in life and believes in you and anything you do despite your flaws.
Gary Woods II my own Mother! I lost her in 2013 and a part of my heart died!
@@PNWOlygurl66 That's my huge fear in life, losing my mom and grandma.
@@PNWOlygurl66 My Dad died 10 Years ago this coming october. I didn't break down until 7 Months later I felt that I had to be strong for My Mother.
i remember crying like a baby when i saw this episode!! now, here i am, crying again 17 years later.... what am i going to do without this show???
This is the year she should have won the Emmy
So many years 💚
I loved Mona - she was special - 💚
When she said "She's running out of air in there" and Bianca was backing back.. That would had been me 😂
I just lost my Mom. I am devastated and heartbroken. At the Hospital right after my Mom passed away, I begged her not to go, to not leave me, that I love her & I need her. I had to watch this scene again after so many years because I remembered that somehow the way I behaved seemed familiar. Wow, what a powerful scene & great acting. I wish that I was only acting. I do know that Susan Lucci was very close to Fran Heflin so I am sure that her emotions were real. RIP Mom & Fran Heflin.
Oh honey I'm so sorry for your loss 😢
This was one of the most moving scenes ever on AMC. Having watched from the begining always loved the relationship between Erika and Mona. Beneath all the fighting and Erika's often terrible treatment of Mona, you could always feel a deep love between the two. Of course this was made possible by the wonderful acting of Susan Lucci and the brilliant Frances Heflin.
Hey guys, did you ever see the end of "Imitation Of Life" with Lana Turner, Sandra Dee and Juanita Moore. That was a terarjerker.
Dimitri was was favorite person for Erica.
He loved Erica - he was special
Yeah he definitely was
Why is everyone looking at Erica like she's crazy? Like she's not crazy, she's grieving.
keturah smith Because by that point she hadn't cried at all when Mona died. Her sudden bust of tears was a shock, not to mention it's Erica.
Erica was really devastated
She tried to jump in the grave
@@cuzitsnecessary When My Father died, it took me seven months to break down and cry. I had no idea how much pain and grief I was holding inside. I felt that I had to be strong for My Mother.
I got scolded at both my Father's funeral and at my Mother's funeral for doing the hysterical cry. I wanted to tell the jerk pastor to shove it. What did he expect from me? Laughter and rolling in the aisle
Erica had a delayed reaction to her mother's Death I lost my own Mom and it was so sudden Trudy was like Mona lovable and patient.
This is exactly how I was when my son passed away. I thought i was leaving him in the cemetery alone i couldn't grasp the fact that he's in a much better place. Its so hard.
What was so sad was that Erica realized how much chaos she put poor Mona through, from the time she was a teenager, to tom finding the birth control pills to kendall, and richard fields. I think that sometimes mona felt guilty that Eric Kane wasn't there for her more and ended up a D List Celebrity.
She should have gone the Emmy for this performance.
I remember when this moment happened. It was such a big deal. I like to believe that this wasn't acting for Susan lucci, because in acting circles when you grow close in playing an on screen family for so long and then one part of that family is no longer around and you acknowledge their absence onscreen especially in something like this, the lines between fiction and reality blur.
Definitely acting and shows how superb she was if people think it was real which is the whole point a brilliant actress.
When my son Sam died, I was completely numb making all the services (I was 16 weeks pregnant when I lost him) and at the end of the service my husband told me it was time to leave and I started screaming that I couldn't leave my baby, he needed a bottle and he needed his mommy. He would be 10 now and I miss him every day.
I'm sorry for your loss. Man I couldn't imagine what it be like carrying a human being inside of you for 16 weeks then miscarry. I'd feel like a murderer. Hopefully you were able to have another one Maureen
susan SHOULD HAVE won the emmy in 1994, powerful acting on her part!
This was for 95
this reminds me of imitation of life
Rodolphe Ettrick It sure does!
so sad.
she could've won a emmy!
but she did in 1999!
EpTownies04 LOL true. you know she had to get those scenes with Vincent Irizarry (another fab actor) to that Emmy
She kept losing the Emmy to Viki from OLTL!
She acted this scene out so well she deserved it
francis heflin was loved by all of the cast membsrs of the show- and- by susan- long before 1999- she should have gotten the 1994 daytime emmy for best actress in a daytime drama series- this was - by far- susan's most powrefullllllllllllllll and most difficult scene everrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Im crying now seeing this Classic
Poor Erica I know how you feel I lost my mother to cancer hurt never goes away blessed her heart Demetri is good guy but Jack & Erica are the best Super Hot Couple always forever True Love Love😂😂😂😂😂😂😍😧😟😮✋
Ashley morgan travis montgomery was soooo fuckken HOT....RIP to one of the best looking actors who played him...
This scene teared me up on my first viewing. It made me sad more knowing Mona's actress died around that time. Which i understand why they killed the character off so they can pay tribute to both the actress and the character. RIP Mona and Frances Heflin
I love when she calls the priest a ghoul. 😂 🤦♂️ 😢 all three emojis in one
😂😂😂😂😂 yeah I spit out my oatmeal 😂
I lost my grandma in 2019 to lung cancer my family hasn’t been the same since I wish she could come back just one day to tell them it’ll be alright every body just so distant now
Same here my aunt died of cancer Christmas day 2019 and i understand she was the one who threw all the parties, events, etc.
I wish they would put dimitri back with erica, I loved them together.
IrinaDerevkoLives That was Erica's best pairing.
Me to - I miss AMC
I have read that this truly was a heartbreak for Susan Lucci.
I remember watching this when I was little girl
It also reminds me of a miracle of life
@jess4metoo Thanks for setting the record straight. Although I haven't really watched since about 2000, I'm gonna miss AMC. I guess one takes things for granted, thought it would be a constant. I've been watching since 1970, yep! And I'm a guy.
Okay Susan was robbed of an Emmy when she didn't win for This
I was never a Susan fan by any means, but this is when she should have won the Emmy
@sirsniffy me too erica shouldve won a emmy for this
Why wasn't Palmer Cortlandt at the Funeral ?
I remember the original Mona of All my children.
My husband told me that when his father died (years before I was in the picture) his Mom broke down at the funeral and gripped the casket bawling and yelling "stosha (German for Stanley) why did you leave me? Come back!"
@jess4metoo They didn't know it was Janet yet. I believe this was the period when she was masquerading as Jane Cox.
I was watching that day.
This was how my mom was when my Nana died. She completely broke down and my sister and I had to help her walk out of the church and the cemetery.
She missed her mother so much in this episode. She even called her Mom.
@heula1 But he was sitting next to Dixie in the funeral home. ...and thanks for setting the record straight about Janet still being Jane here. I'm gonna miss AMC.
The actors and actresses faces look more like “Oh God more screen time for her.”
ABS PRODUCTIONS LCC bwaahaahaa to me it looks like wtf fresh nonsense is this...???
Ernestine Maloy Word, because the acting really isn’t good at all. It’s actually cringe worthy and not to be disrespectful, I see why it took her 29 years to get an daytime emmy award.
@@a.b.sproductionsllc ikr bcuz I watched a doc about soaps the production level excruciatingly SLOW and in the old days like on dark shadows my FAVORITE soap of all time btw it was LIVE so if they messed up a line or some out of the way thing happened there was NO take two....DS is a riot to watch today back when i was 10 damn thing gave me nightmares in the fucking DAYTIME ...and I'm not exaggerating in the least in fact I'm surprised mom let me watch that stuff ...well it was 1972...🙄
@@a.b.sproductionsllc yeah SL was the melodrama queen used to love to hate her only person worse than erica was silver kane her sister...boy if it's possible I hated HER even more...LOL
Ernestine Maloy A number of soaps were done live up until the mid 70’s. I believe “Edge of Night” was the last daytime soap to do live, and then “Search For Tomorrow” did it in the 80’s for one episode which people believe it was a publicity stunt. I think soaps moved at more of a slower pace back then but it did keep people glued more. Today, I think our attention span short. One soap that I think moved at a good pace and I have been binge watching is “The Doctors” the flow of storylines lasted just the right amount of time. “Dark Shadows” was one of my mom’s favorite soaps, but then again there probably wasn’t a pre-teen or teenager that wasn’t crazy about that show. It ran from 1966-71. I discovered it on Sci-fi Channel in the early 2000’s.
4/1/20... I sure miss all of ALM n cast
Who was Nick to Erica again ?
Nick was a close friend to Mona which irritated Erica fearing Mona might replace her father for Nick. Years later he became one of Erica's many ex lovers that she wanted, but couldn't really have to commit to her, because Erica's love for the glamorous life and Nick's close relationship with Mona he felt it would never work and wanted her to truly be happy.
If these were black people, they wouldn’t find Erica Kane’s grief that strange at the funeral. Gripping the coffin and crying uncontrollably is pretty standard at black funerals! ;)
I would've loved if Dimitri had come up and comforted Erica. Imagine how amazing that would be. Nonetheless, Susan knocked this out of the park
very nice scene between Dixie and Opal... why isn't Tad there?
Erika treated Mona so bad .
But deep down she did love her.
OMG - All my ex husbands and lovers. So many Erica exes watched Erica crumble at the gravesite.
I was surprised Adam wasn't there.
@@deontyler960 Another ex husband. Mona also did not really like him was my recollection. Mona got along well with Dimitri, Jack, Nick, Tom, Jeremy, Travis.
@@skaterboy-cz9wj That could be true I started watching All My Children around late 1991. I used to think that both Susan Lucci and David Canary was such good actors that with the right storyline they would have made a popular soap couple cause they were similar in ways.
The reason Erica is in histrionics is because she knows she didn't treat her mom very well in life and now it's too late to make amends. I've seen it in my own family and others.
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Oh, Erica she is breaking my heart right now. I 've been there. Susan Lucci is blowing it out of her ass in this scene. Heartbreaking.
IMO I didn't see a bit of sympathy from the others for Erica in this scene. They looked like they were embarrassed by her.
Kevin Riley they without question were sympathetic...it was more shock that Erica went from 0 to 10 on the raging grief scale
she treated her mother so bad. It's right out of The movie out of imitation of life. the girl regretted treating her like garbage
😭😭😭😭
@jess4metoo Oh, that's right. I think he got permission to leave the hospital earlier than he was supposed to. Didn't he have an IV by him or something? And wasn't "Jane" revealed to be Janet when Harold interrupted her wedding to Trevor with her medicine bottle? Lol. ABC Daytime was must-see TV for my mom and me through jr. high and high school!
Anybody else loose their shit? 🙋🙋🙋 Anybody???
I'm sorry for Mona.
I think Jackson had a small mullet
@junk4matty This was right after the tornado. He was still in the hospital after having a door blown in on him and visiting "heaven."
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agreed
Wait a minute! Janet Greene was at the funeral, Wasn't she the one who killed Will? Maybe she should have gone with Dixie.
Nobody knew it was Janet at this point: she's had reconstructive surgery on her face in prison lol
Robin Mattson was great playing Janet.
Who is Mona?
Her mother
Erica i just calm down I know what happened. Erica. You mother Mona is die and now you daughter Bianca is scared
Omg horrible performance.
evil brothers begone!!!!!
stop lying all of u
She missed her mother so much in this episode. She even called her Mom.