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Irna Phillips (July 1, 1901 – December 23, 1973) was an American scriptwriter, screenwriter, casting agent and actress. She is best remembered for pioneering a format of the daytime soap opera in the United States geared specifically toward women.
May 1, 2024 · Irna Phillips, American radio and television writer who developed the modern soap opera. Known as the Queen of the Soaps, she created the series Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Another World, Love Is a Many Splendored Thing, and Days of Our Lives.
Mar 16, 2022 · You may not know the name Irna Phillips (1901-1973), but you know her work and influence. She pioneered the soap opera genre in radio and is widely regarded as a key creative figure in radio and television serialized entertainment.
Millions of people helped popularize the radio and television soap operas created by scriptwriter Irna Phillips. Born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 1, 1901, to William S. and Betty (Buxbaum) Phillips, she had nine older siblings.
Mar 5, 2020 · Irna Phillips is one of the leaders, innovators, activists, entertainers, athletes and artists who defined the last century. Find out why TIME chose Irna Phillips as one of the 100 women...
Sep 13, 2009 · A Jewish schoolteacher from Dayton, Ohio, she was a script-writer for a daytime radio talk show before creating and starring in the Chicago-based "Painted Dreams," the...
Brief life of soap opera’s single mother: 1901-1973. by Lynn Liccardo. January-February 2013. If ever a writer embodied Thornton Wilder’s observation that “art is not only the desire to tell one’s secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time,” it was Irna Phillips.
