Beth Raines
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| Elizabeth Raines Bauer | |||||||||||||||||
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| Guiding Light character | |||||||||||||||||
| Portrayed by | Beth Chamberlin | ||||||||||||||||
| First appearance | 1983 | ||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Pam Long | ||||||||||||||||
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Elizabeth "Beth" Spaulding Bauer (née Raines, formerly Lemay, Winslow, and Lewis) is a character in the long-running American soap opera Guiding Light, daughter of the late Bradley and Lillian Raines.
Actress Judi Evans won a Best Supporting Actress daytime Emmy Award in 1984 for her portrayal of the character.
Actress Beth Chamberlain was named Soap Opera Digest Awards Hottest Female Star of 1990. In 2007 he secured the Daytime Emmys Pre-nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress. Chamberlain also authored the tie-in novel Lorelei's Guiding Light: An Intimate Diary using the pen name of her character.
Beth's alterego was Lorelei Hills. Lorelei was Beth's identiy when she had amnesia and she later pretended to be Lorelei again. Lorelie kept a diary which was later realeased in real life as a tie-in book.
The book, Lorelei's Guiding Light: An Intimate Diary, was written by Beth Chamberlain under the pen name of Lorelei Hills. Published by St. Martin's Press, it was released during the summer of 2002. The Cincinati Enquirer listed the book as number one on their best seller list for July 02, 2002.
The character of Beth Raines has been half of two supercouples. Beth and Lujack and Beth and Philip Spaulding. Beth has also been married to Philip's father, Alan Spaulding and Philip's best friend Rick Bauer. Beth, Philip, Rick and Mindy called themselves The Four Musketeers in the 1980's. Together they were four best friends with a watertight bond.
Actor History
- Judi Evans (May 1983 to July 1986)
- Lisa Loughridge (Temporary replacement 1986]
- Beth Chamberlin (October 2, 1989 to February 18, 1991; November 1, 1997 to October 17, 2003; Recurring October 20, 2003 to present)
Character History
Judy Evans years- 1983-1986
Beth Raines first appeared on Guiding Light in the spring of 1983. She was admited to Cedards as an unconscious victim of an abusive stepfather. Her room-mate was Melinda (Mindy) Lewis. Mindy was friends with two orderlies, Philip Spaulding and Rick Bauer. The four of them formed a fast friendship, nicknamed "The Four Musketeers" which quickly developed into a romantic quadrangle.
Beth was a shy, artistic teenager. Philip and Mindy, both heirs to two of Springfield's premier families, were dating when Philip fell for Beth who was dating Rick. Fate seemed to be pushing Philip and Beth together and when Beth was raped by her step-father, the two of them ran away to New York City. They returned to be married, but discovered that Mindy, Beth's maid of honor, was pregnant with Philip's child, and Philip married Mindy instead.
Beth moved on with a gangleader named LuJack, in a Romeo and Juliette/West Side Story styled love story. Meanwhile, Mindy miscarried, Philip and Mindy divorced and Philip tried to win Beth back. Beth was blinded in an explosion, and LuJack discovered that he and Philip were cousins. Philip's aunt Alexandra was LuJack's biological mother, but LuJack (real name Brandon) wanted nothing to do with her.
LuJack was killed, leaving a heartbroken Beth to eventually reunite with Philip briefly. In 1986, Beth was kidnapped and presumed dead.
Beth's Return- Beth Chamberlain
Flings & relationships
- Fredrick "Rick" Bauer (dated)
- Phillip Spaulding (dated/engaged)
- Brandon "Lujack" Spaulding Luvonaczek (dated/engaged, deceased)
- Jackson Freemont (dated)
- Neil Everest (dated/engaged)
- Carl Stevens (lover, deceased)
- Ben Warren (lover, deceased)
- Harlen Billy "Bill" Lewis III (lover)
- Jeffrey O'Neill (lovers)
- Alan Spaulding (one night stand)
- Dr. Frederick Bauer (affair/lover)
- Alan Spaulding (dated/engaged)
Legal Name
- Upon Beth Raines marriage to Alan Spaulding in 2005, she legally changed her name to Elizabeth Raines Spaulding. She signed her divorce papers in 2007 with the surname Spaulding as to drop her middle name "Ann". Upon her July 5, 2007 marriage to Dr. Frederick Bauer it is unknown the name that Beth carries, but it is still said she is referred to as Elizabeth Spaulding. She calls herself Beth Bauer.