[12] Executive producer and Nixon protege Gordon Russell temporarily recast the role to recognized stage and theatre actress Kathleen Maguire in 1977.

Larry works under Llanview Hospital chief of staff Jim Craig (Robert Milli, Nat Polen after 1969), to whom Anna grows an affinity.

[14] Leading up to the nuptials and more obviously afterward, Anna clashes with Jim's rebellious teen daughter Cathy Craig (originally Catherine Burns, notably Dorrie Kavanaugh).

She (Phyllis Behar) leaves fictional Llanview in 1982 to live in Florida, after husband Jim (and Polen) dies off-screen in 1981, and her brother and police officer Vince (Michael Ingram) is shot and killed in the line of duty.

The supporting role of Anna appears on the first 14 years of the series,[2][3] alongside long-running original front-burner characters Larry Wolek, Joe Riley (Lee Patterson), Carla Gray (Ellen Holly), and Victoria Lord (Erika Slezak after 1971).