Renee Roy Dead at 74;
Soap star 'Love of Life'
Renee Roy, perhaps best known as the tough-as-nails nightclub owner on the 1960s daytime soap opera "Love of Life," died Saturday. She was 74.
Roy, who also had a successful career in television commercials, died at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Esther Napolitano said Tuesday.
Her son, David Steinhardt, said the cause of death was colon cancer, according to The Hartford Courant, which first reported her death.
After being crowned Miss Television, she began working steadily on the small screen: modeling on "