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Irna Phillips  Radio and Television Creator, Writer

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Irna Phillips

MT&R Satellite Seminar, 1997

In this excerpt from the Museum’s seminar entitled The Art and History of the Soap Opera: The Making of…An Agnes Nixon Soap Opera: All My Children, Irna Phillips’s protégée Agnes Nixon reflects on Phillips’s life and career.
 

Career Includes

Speech and Drama Teacher (1924–30); Radio Creator, Writer, Painted Dreams (1930–32), Today’s Children (1932–38), The Guiding Light (1937–56), The Road of Life (1937–59), The Woman in White (1938–48), The Right to Happiness (1939–60), The Brighter Day (1948–56); Television Creator, Writer, The Guiding Light (1952–58);Cocreator, Writer, As the World Turns (1956–70; 1972–73), Another World (1964–66); Cocreator, Days of Our Lives (1965)
 

Education

Northwestern University; University of Illinois, 1923, BS, Education; University of Wisconsin, 1924
 

Born

July 01, 1901
Chicago, Illinois

 

Died

December 22, 1973
Chicago, Illinois

 

 

 

 

 


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