On the 17th anniversary of her death, McCook reminisced about Conley, whose bombastic presence and dazzling personality are still fondly remembered today, along with her place in soap opera history.

Darlene Conley, a veteran stage and television actress who entertained daytime audiences for nearly two decades as the feisty fashion mogul Sally Spectra on “The Bold and the Beautiful,” has died.

THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL — and the entire soap world — lost one of its best and brightest when Darlene Conley died Jan. 14 of cancer. She was 72. The veteran actress of stage and screen ...

Darlene Conley, a veteran stage and television actress who entertained daytime audiences for nearly two decades as the feisty fashion mogul Sally Spectra on “The Bold and the Beautiful,” has died.

Soap Opera Digest: How would you sum up Rose? Darlene Conley: She was a professional criminal and made no bones about it. There was no conscience. She said, “I have a business to run here.” In ...

Darlene Conley, a veteran stage and television actress who entertained daytime audiences for nearly two decades as the feisty fashion mogul Sally Spectra on “The Bold and the Beautiful,” has died.

Darlene Conley, a veteran stage and television actress who entertained daytime audiences for nearly two decades as the feisty fashion mogul Sally Spectra on "The Bold and the Beautiful," died Jan ...

Soap opera star Conley dies LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17 (UPI) -- Darlene Conley, who entertained daytime drama audiences since the late 1970s, has died at 72 in her Los Angles home of stomach cancer.

LOS ANGELES – Darlene Conley, a veteran stage and television actress who entertained daytime audiences for nearly two decades as the feisty fashion mogul Sally Spectra on “The Bold and the ...