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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.
Jun 27, 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 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 who...
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 first...
Vita: Irna Phillips. 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.
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.
Soap opera writer Irna Phillips. Courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society, WHI-102844. In Brief. Irna Phillips created hugely popular soap operas for radio and television and introduced plotlines that shaped the format of many soaps that followed.
A pioneering radio writer, Irna Phillips created arguably the first soap opera (Painted Dreams, 1930), then spent the next 40 years as the creative force behind everything from Woman In White, Today's Children, and Road of Life on radio to As The World Turns and Another World for television.
Once heralded as the Queen of the Soap Opera, and credited by some with creating the genre, Irna Phillips was born in 1901 and grew up in Chicago, Illinois, the youngest of ten children of German-Jewish immigrants.
Irna Phillips (July 1, 1901 – December 23, 1973) was an American scriptwriter, screenwriter, casting agent and actress. She created, produced, and wrote several of the first American daytime radio and television soap operas, including Guiding Light, As the World Turns, and Another World
