Remembering Guiding Light

On television, the show focused on the Bauer family, a lower-middle class German immigrant family.
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Cast
On television, the show focused on the Bauer family, a lower-middle class German immigrant family. Theo Geotz (left, above) played Papa Bauer and Charita Bauer his daughter-in-law "Bert". Charita Bauer would remain a part of the cast until her death in 1985.

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