Generally Happy

GENIE FRANCIS

“It feels like somebody blinked and here I am,” exclaimed Genie as she recently celebrated her 45th anniversary playing Laura Spencer on TV’s General Hospital. “It doesn’t feel like 45 years! Forty-five years sounds like a stupidly long time, but it doesn’t feel that way in my heart,” she insisted. “I still feel excited about what I get to do, I still feel grateful. The dew did not leave the road for me.”

On Nov. 16, 1981, nearly 30 million viewers tuned in to watch Genie’s Laura marry Luke (Anthony Geary).