About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 33. Chapters: April Webster, Avy Kaufman, Bert Remsen, Beverly McDermott, Bonita Pietila, Caro Jones, Debra Zane, Derek Ford, Dolly Thakore, Ellen Chenoweth, Ellie Kanner, Fiona Weir, Georgianne Walken, Holly Dale, Irna Phillips, Jan Russ, Joanna Merlin, Johanna Ray, John Papsidera, John Sudol, Joyce Selznick, Judy Blye Wilson, Leslee Feldman, Liz Mullinar, Lucky Englander, Lynn Stalmaster, Madeline Lee Gilford, Mali Finn, Marci Liroff, Marilyn Nash, Marion Dougherty, Mark Summers (casting director), Mary Jo Slater, Mary Selway, Melissa McBride, Meryl O'Loughlin, Michael Cassara, Michael Shurtleff, Mimi Maynard, Mindy Marin, Nora Francisca Blackburne, Phyllis Huffman, Randy Stone, Rosslynn Taylor, Sarah Monson, Sarah Trevis, Susan Bluestein, Tammara Billik, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Tonya Suzanne Holly. Excerpt: Irna Phillips (July 1, 1901 - December 22, 1973) was an American actress and most notably writer who created and scripted many of the first American soap operas. Phillips created (and co-created) radio and TV soap operas including: Phillips also was a creative consultant on Peyton Place (1964-1969), and was an unofficial consultant on A World Apart, which was created by her adopted daughter Katherine. Irna Phillips was also a story editor on Days of our Lives. She was also the mentor to Agnes Nixon, the creator of All My Children and One Life to Live, and William J. Bell, the creator of The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. 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-Madison. Phillips wanted to be an actress. From 1925 to 1930 she worked as a school teacher in Dayton, Ohio, teaching drama and theatre history to schoolchildren. While working in this capacity she continued to attempt a career as an actress, and after performing several acting roles for radio productions at WGN in Chicago, she left her career as a teacher. At the age of 42, Phillips adopted a son, Thomas Dirk Phillips. A year later, she adopted a daughter, Katherine Louise Phillips. After working as a staff writer on a daytime talk show, Phillips created the serial Painted Dreams. Historians now believe the show to have been the first daytime serial specifically targeted for women. On this show Phillips wrote every episode, in addition to starring in the show as family matriarch "Mother Moynihan" and "Sue Morton." The Serial ran daily except Sundays until April 1932. Irna Phillips is credited with innovating a daytime serial format for radio geared toward women. She started with her trial serial series Painte
