Over the last 30 years, ANOTHER WORLD'S audience has marveled at the metamorphosis of Rachel Cory. Once a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, this now-classy lady is a shining example of what love really can do.
When Agnes Nixon took over a headwriter of AW in the late 1960's, she introduced Characters who really shook up Bay City. One of then was schemer Rachel Davis. "She was the show's female heavy, " says Victoria Wyndham, who's been the redeemed minx since 1972. "She was the bad girl who existed to corrupt and manipulate the people around her."
Abandoned by her father, Rachel had deep-seated feelings of worthlessness. "She believed she was unlovable," notes Wyndham adding, "When people feel that way, they do bad things."
Rachel began her life in Bay City by becoming the third leg of a triangle with hunky Steven Frame and pushover Alice Matthews. After becoming pregnant by Steven, Rachel tried to pass off the baby, Jaime, as the sire of her hubby, Russ Matthews, who wasn't fooled for long. Then, although she didn't love Dr. Ted Clark, the single mom married him. Later, after Steve and Alice divorced, he and Rachel wed. But it wasn't until she hooked up with the wealthy and much older MacKenzie "Mac" Cory that she experienced true love. They married in 1975. "Rachel finally found a father figure who also was a romantic figure," says Wyndham. "He fulfilled all her needs."
However, the Cory's relationship was not without its up and downs. Over the next 10 years, they would separate, divorce and remarry. In 1989, Rachel lost her beloved Mac, but not the side affects of having loved him. "He taught Rachel that it is much more desirable to be motivated out of love than by hate, revenge or resentment." explains Wyndham.
Rachel's kin didn't immediately approve of her next spouse, notorious Carl Hutchins. But she stood by him, choosing to concentrate on the goodness she knew existed within him - just as Mac had done so for her so many years ago.