On the Anniversary of All My Children Vet Marcy Walker’s Huge Gamble, We Look Back at How Brilliantl

Nearly 40 years ago today, the Emmy winner joined the cast of a struggling new soap, in the process making us see her in a whole new light.  In the mid-1980s, Marcy Walker had it going on. She was starring on All My Children as Liza Colby, the hellion that viewers loved to hate. And, coming off back-to-back Emmy nominations, she was the toast of daytime. So what did she do? She took a humongous gamble, leaving the ABC soap in 1984 to join a brand-new one, NBC’s Santa Barbara, as heiress Eden Ca