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Eric Braeden, Jeanne Cooper, Eileen Davidson, Lesley-Anne Down, Susan Lucci Set for Hollywood Christmas Parade

Susan Lucci
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)
Susan Lucci
(© Joseph Marzullo/WENN)

Soap opera stars Julie Berman, Eric Braeden, Judith Chapman, Jeanne Cooper, Eileen Davidson, Lesley-Anne Down, Hayley Erin, Jennifer Gareis, Carolyn Hennesy, John Ingle, Sean Kanan, Kate Linder, Vanessa Marano, Kevin Schmidt, Heather Tom, Dominic Zamprogna, and Yvonne Zima will participate in the Hollywood Christmas Parade, to be held on Sunday, November 29 beginning at 6pm. As previously announced, Emmy Award winner Susan Lucci has been named the 2009 Grand Marshall for the parade.

The parade will travel on a U-shaped route throughout Hollywood, on Orange Street and Hollywood Boulevard, traveling East onto Hollywood Boulevard turning South onto Vine Street, and then traveling West onto Sunset Boulevard back to Orange Street. It will be taped for a nationwide broadcast on MyNetworkTV, airing on both Thursday, December 10, and on Christmas Eve, Thursday, December 24. Eric Estrada and Laura McKenzie will serve at the Parade Broadcast Hosts. Kyle Massey and Christopher Massey will serve as Parade Route Reporters who will interact with parade attendees on camera.

Lucci — who starred in the Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun — is best known for her role of Erica Kane on the soap opera, All My Children.

For more information, visit www.thehollywoodchristmasparade.com.