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Feb 6, 2021 · She attended Northwestern University (1918-1919), the University of Illinois (1919-1922), and the University of Wisconsin (1924), to do graduate work in journalism. Although she never married, she adopted two children, Thomas Dirk (1941), and Katherine Louise (1943). From 1925 to 1929, Miss Phillips taught speech at Dayton, Ohio's Teachers College.
Born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 1, 1901, to William S. and Betty (Buxbaum) Phillips, she had nine older siblings. Her father, a grocer born to Polish immigrant parents, died when Irna was eight years old, leaving her mother, a Jewish immigrant from Germany, to keep the large family together with income from several rental properties.
Irna Phillips papers, 1931-1997 (bulk 1931-1973) Author / Creator. Phillips, Irna, 1901-1973. Available as. Physical. Summary. Papers of a creator and writer of radio and television soap operas. Included are scripts by Phillips herself and by Radio Scripts Inc., to which she was a consultant; outlines; advertising copy; an...
pers donated by Irna Phillips to the Film and Manu-scripts Archive of the State Historical Society in Mad-ison, Wisconsin. Phillips's papers provide the most extensive documentation not only of the early years of radio soap opera but also of televised serials aired in later decades. For the period 1931 to 1938, the Phillips
Papers, mainly 1931-1973, of Irna Phillips, a creator and writer of radio and television soap operas. Included are scripts by Phillips herself and by Radio Scripts, Inc., to which she was a consultant; outlines; advertising copy; and correspondence with listeners, viewers, networks, and advertising agencies.
Jul 19, 2021 · Meet Irna Phillips. Phillips was one of ten children born to a German Jewish family in Chicago. She studied drama at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (where she became a member of Phi Sigma Sigma sorority), receiving a Master of Arts degree before going on to earn a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Wisconsin ...
The Irna Phillips Collection is arranged in chronological order according to the material as it first appears, whether in scripts, outlines, or correspondence. Some titles were reused by Miss Phillips (although, as in the case of Today's Children , she did not really approve of the practice) for entirely different programs, and are labeled ...
