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First appearance | July 2, 1968 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Last appearance | May 25, 1989 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Created by | Agnes Nixon | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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David Canary as Steve
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Father | Henry Frame Sr. |
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Mother | Jenny Frame |
Brothers | Jason Frame Vince Frame Willis Frame Henry Frame Jr. Norman Frame |
Sisters | Emma Ordway Janice Frame Sharlene Hudson |
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Sons | Jamie Frame |
Stepdaughters | Diana Frame |
Grandchildren | Steven Frame |
Grandmothers | Rose Frame |
Nephews | Sterling Ordway Wade Ordway Gregory Hudson Dean Frame Evan Frame |
Nieces | Frankie Frame Molly Ordway Josie Sinclair |
Steve Frame is a fictional character from the NBC daytime soap opera Another World.
He was first portrayed by George Reinholt from 1968 to 1975 (Reinholt returned in 1989 for the show's 25th anniversary playing Steve as a ghost) and David Canary from 1981 to 1983. During the six-year gap between Reinholt and Canary, Steve was presumed dead in a helicopter crash in Australia. When David Canary assumed the role, it was explained that Steve had plastic surgery on his face but had amnesia all those years until he returned to Bay City.
Born in 1940 in Chadwell, Oklahoma, Steven Frame was one of eight children born to Henry and Jenny Frame. His siblings included sisters Emma Frame Ordway, Janice Frame and Sharlene Frame Watts, and brothers Vince Frame, Willis Frame, Jason Frame and Henry Frame, Jr. A self-made millionaire land developer and half-owner of the Bay City Bangles, the town's football team, Steven Frame first came to Bay City in 1967 on business and pretty much kept a low profile, but didn't make his society debut until the following year when he attended the wedding of District Attorney Walter Curtain to Lenore Moore on July 1, 1968.
At the reception held at the Bay City Country Club, Steve introduced himself to Lenore's best friend and bridesmaid, Alice Matthews (Jacqueline Courtney). It was also at the reception that he met Alice's scheming, money-hungry sister-in-law Rachel Matthews (Robin Strasser). Steve and Alice were instantly smitten with each other and began dating. Steve fell head over heels for Alice, who was the only person to call to him by his full first name Steven. Alice was also delighted when he hired her father Jim to handle the accounting for Steve's Bay City office. Though she was encouraged by Rachel not to let her handsome and rich suitor get away, Alice was completely unaware at first of Rachel's true intentions: she wanted Steve for herself and was determined to have him, and even went as far as to find any excuse to double-date with Alice and Steve with her husband, Russ Matthews (Sam Groom), Alice's brother and a newly interned doctor.