This article appeared in a September 1992 issue of TV Guide. Smith gets Lifeinsurance by Michael Logan

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Three years after quitting her role as Margo Hughes on As the World Turns, Hillary B. Smith is heading back to the soaps. But her tail is not between her legs. Unlink other soap superstars who never get a crack at primetime, Smith went on to star in four sitcom pilots (including the controversial Driving Miss Daisy) and ran neck and neck with Susan Dey for the lead in Diane English's new series Love & War. "But it makes no difference if you do quality pilots or schlocky ones," Smith shrugs. "Network decisions finally come down to one man and how he happens to feel on a particular day. The fickleness was just too frustrating." More important, the New Jersey mother of two says the constant commute to Hollywood was wreaking havoc with her home life. "One time, I dropped my kids at school and promised to pick them up at 1 - but when I got home, there was a message that Jeff Sagansky [CBS president, entertainment] wanted to see me about a project now. I was on a plane in two hours and didn't come home for a week." So enough's enough. This week, Smith joins the New York-based One Life To Live as lawyer Nora Gannon, a wisecracking divorcee from an interracial marriage who will eventually be paired with cowboy Bo, played by Emmy winner Robert S. Woods. And in a very rare move for daytime, Nora will be openly Jewish.