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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.
Mar 16, 2022 · Irna Phillips was a pioneer in the genre of serialized drama (or soap opera) spanning radio and TV. Phillips also serving as a mentor to other soap opera genre pioneers like Agnes Nixon, the creative mind behind All My Children and One Life To Live, William J. Bell, the creative mind behind The Young & The Restless and The Bold & The Beautiful, and Ted & Betty Corday, the creative minds behind ...
May 1, 2024 · Irna Phillips (born July 1, 1901, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.—died December 22, 1973, Chicago) was an American radio and television writer who developed the modern soap opera. She worked as a teacher before turning to writing for radio and creating the first soap opera , Painted Dreams (1930).
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Jan 31, 2019 · One common thread unites all of those milestones, and her name was Irna Phillips, “The Queen of Soaps.”. The first daytime soap opera on the radio in the United States was called Painted Dreams; the 15-minute daily show debuted in October, 1930 on Chicago’s WGN. Irna Phillips, who was already a radio actress, created the show after a ...
May 5, 2022 · Soap opera queen Irna Phillips, circa 1965. For seven years, she taught drama and English at an Ohio teachers college and a Missouri junior college before being hired as a writer on a WGN talk show.
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. In 1930, Phillips—a 29-year-old, unemployed ...
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Love Is a Many Splendored Thing was an American daytime soap opera that aired on CBS from September 18, 1967, to March 23, 1973. [1] The series was created by Irna Phillips, who served as the first head writer. She was replaced by Jane Avery and Ira Avery in 1968, who were followed by Don Ettlinger, James Lipton and finally Ann Marcus. [2]
