Meg Dale
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Meg Dale Harper Andrews Aleata Hart was the second female major character in the now-defunct American Soap Opera Love of Life. She was first played by actress, Jean McBride and when the character returned in the 1970's, she was played by Canadian actress, Tudi Wiggins.
The bad sister
Margaret, better known as "Meg", was the younger sister of Vanessa Dale. Where Vanessa was compassionate and kind, Meg was anything but. She announced right after she left High School that she was marrying for money. She met and married a man named Charles Harper, and with him, gave birth to a son, Ben "Beanie" Harper. Her selfish nature wouldn't allow for her to love her son, so Vanessa took up the slack. Charles complained to his sister in-law about all of Meg's antics, and despite repeated pleas from her family, Meg was not about to be denied.
Finally, Charles had left her, prior to her being accused of murder. She was alleged to have murdered her gangster boyfriend, Miles Pardee. Then she met a man named Jack Andrews, whom she married some years after her divorce. He stole her fortune, and left her a pauper. She didn't mourn him, though, for he was killed in a plane crash in Mexico. After foisting a paternity suit on lawyer Tom Craythorne and it backfiring on her, she took Ben and left New York.
Some years later, Meg was still out of touch when her mother, Sarah Dale, was in the hospital in her new home of Rosehill, New York. She had been married and divorced to Edouard Aleata (played by John Aniston), and by now had had a daughter named Caroline, nicknamed, "Cal", besides her grown son, Ben.
Meg had been summoned by Van and her new husband, Bruce Sterling, letting her know, by a letter, that Sarah had been in the hospital. Meg came along, not long after Cal (who intercepted her letter) had moved to Rosehill, to see her mother. While Sarah recovered, she was saddened that Meg was as amoral and evil as she ever was.
Meg had met the corrupt mayor of Rosehill, Jeff Hart. This had led to her remaining in Rosehill. He was rich, attractive, and absolutely evil, which suited the vile Meg just fine. After having a torrid affair with him, she married him, and again, she made an enemy of her sister, Vanessa, as they clashed over morals. Jeff Hart would ultimately be Meg's last husband.
After the thoroughly monstrous Jeff had been shot by his son, David, for raping his stepdaughter, and died. Meg remained single and managed her fortune, which was how she ended things when the show ended.
She did try to have a relationship with one Rick Latimer, who owned a country club style complex, called Beaver Ridge, and she was helping to finance it. However, he fell hard for her daughter, Cal. She fought the pairing tooth and nail, but, as was often the case when she tried to force her own way on things, she failed. Rick and Cal were married, and they took his son Hank Latimer (by his first marriage to Meg's stepniece, Barbara Sterling) and moved out of Rosehill.
Meg was unusual, as she was the first ever soap character, good or evil, to utter profanity on daytime television. She had uttered the word "bastard" at the daughter of her son Ben, while browbeating her son, which was more of an indictment on her, and her awful way of parenting him when he was younger.
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