In 1953, Ellen Demming (r., with Charita Bauer as Bert Bauer and Theo Goetz as Papa Bauer) made her Guiding Light debut as Meta Bauer. The character had been portrayed by two different actresses ...

In 1962, Nixon used the beloved character of Bert Bauer, played by Charita Bauer (the surnames were a coincidence), to help educate viewers about uterine cancer. Years later, in 1984, the show ...