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Married to : Mr. Benson (19??-19??), Mr. Blake (19??-19??)

Children : Stan Benson, Mack Blake, Gina Blake DeMott Capwell, Summer Blake

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1986

Stella Stevens :
November 29 1989 (# 1344) to December 28 1990 (# 1620)

This is in November 1989 that Phyllis Blake comes to rejoin her daughter Gina in Santa Barbara. The reunion is at the beginning difficult, Phyllis having to be forgiven of her mother errors to Gina. Eccentric and disordered, Phyllis moves in the house of her daughter, who repurchased and transformed the Lockridge mansion into a pension.

One day, she discovers that Gina has a love-affair with Ethan Asher, the new district attorney. She then manages to be hired by him as a secretary. At random of her daily espionages, she learns that Ethan's wife, Laura, has killed a man, Leo Mitchell. She then benefits of this indiscretion to anonymously blackmail Laura, until Gina discovers it and asks her to stop.

At the same time, Phyllis borrows money to Gina and, with her friend Cy Agnew, starts many investments which all turn to be disastrous. After the fire which devastates the Lockridge mansion, Phyllis is constrained to avow to Gina that she did not pay the insurance, having prefered to keep the moeny for her bets. As she has ruined her daughter, Phyllis is then hired as a waitress at Howie's Diner to help her to survive.

Thereafter, she is not long in discovering that Gina, blind since a fall in the stairs, pretends in fact her blindness. She then helps her to exchange some Capwell arts paintings belonging to C.C. againt falses ones. But the plan fails when C.C. surprises them. Realizing that she will only have brought troubles to Gina, Phyllis finally decides to leave the town...