Ellen Demming was an American

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 actress, best known for her role as Meta Bauer on the soap opera

Soap opera

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 The Guiding Light, which she played from 1953 to 1974.

Demming also acted in off-Broadway and summer stock theatrical productions. She played Mary in Family Portrait. Brooks Atkinson

Brooks Atkinson

Justin Brooks Atkinson was an American theatre critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960...

 of The New York Times

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deemed her performance full of "...pride, modesty, and great delicacy of feeling."

After her retirement from The Guiding Light, she moved to South Salem, New York

South Salem, New York

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, and later, to Vermont

Vermont

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