He also wrote out three of the show's most popular actors: George Reinholt (Steve Frame), Jacqueline Courtney (Alice Matthews Frame), and Virginia Dwyer (Mary Matthews), in 1975.
Lemay co-created Lovers and Friends with Paul Rauch, later retooled and referred to as For Richer, For Poorer.
He was also a friend and mentor to Douglas Marland, who was his subwriter on Another World and later became one of daytime TV's most prolific writers as head writer for Guiding Light, General Hospital and As the World Turns.
Lemay was born on March 16, 1922,[2] near the Mohawk Indian reservation in North Bangor, New York, where his mother grew up.
He ran away to New York City at age 17 where he attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.