role on the condition that her character oppose the Vietnam War, which Prinz herself opposed, and on the condition that she be given above-the-title billing. Prinz was the only All My Children performer to ever receive that honor. This role was followed by a nine-month turn as the lead character, Dr. Julie Franklin, in How to Survive a Marriage in 1974. In 1988, she played Sister Mary Joel on Ryan's Hope. She made several returns to As the World Turns, during events that focused on Penny's family. She returned in 1985 for Bob and Kim's wedding and in 1986 to celebrate her parents' fiftieth wedding anniversary. She returned to As the World Turns again in 1998 so Penny could attend her mother's eightieth birthday party. Her final appearance on the show was in 2000 to visit her family for Christmas (the show ended in 2010). Prinz starred in the national tour of The Apple Tree in 1967. Her co-stars were Tom Ewell and Will MacKenzie. Later she starred in the second national tour of Driving Miss Daisy. In the late 1970s, Prinz began to make rare prime-time television appearances, including a recurring role on Knots Landing from 1981–82 as Sylvia Warren, who was convinced her husband was having an affair with Laura Avery (Constance McCashin). She appeared in the 1980 Hart to Hart episode "Cruise at Your Own Risk" (as Esther Goldwin). She also appeared on an episode of the ABC situation comedy Laverne and Shirley. Film In 2000, aged 69, Prinz made her film debut in the low-budget The Bread, My Sweet, which starred Scott Baio. Until that time the closest she had come to moviemaking was a 1948 film for the Navy, It Could Happen to Your Sister, in which, aged 17, she played a young woman who contracted an STD. In 2004 she completed a short film, Extreme Mom. Personal life Prinz was married to actor Michael Thoma from 1951–57. (Thoma died in 1982 at the age of 55.) She married, secondly, to jazz drummer Joseph Patti in 1966. They remarried married until his death in 2014. A lifelong New Yorker, she is a resident of the Upper West Side. References External links 2003 interview 1931 births American film actresses American soap opera actresses American stage actresses Living people People from Manhattan People from the Bronx Actresses from New York City 21st-century American women