ALL: General Retro Soap Discussion

[Contessa Donatella]

THANKS!!! So much!! 

[Paul Raven]

A number of errors in the above article. You wonder how with all that research,how  they slipped through.

I think they are conflating Women Alone with Lonely Women. I have never read anything of a serial called Women Alone. However,I am prepared to be proven wrong.

 

It seems Irna actually WAS interested in TV soaps as witnessed by These Are My Children airing in 1949 on NBC in the early days of TV.

 

I don't believe that was reluctance, rather simply good business sense as radio's dominance began to wane.

 

Inferring that was somehow connected to Irna who was off that show 10 years prior.

 

Again inferring that Phillips leaving 6 years prior had some connection to the eventual cancellation.

 

 

Again these two events are in fact one. Irna left ATWT only once in 1970 and returned in 72. She was not working on another P&G show at the time. So either she brought the ratings up or they dipped, depending on which above account you believe

 

Untrue. A World Apart debuted 5 years after she left AW. And AWA aired longer than a few months. Over a year in fact.

 

I believe Orin Tovrov was the writer. Irna was not involved in the creation of this show. And no mention of Masquerade an Irna serial  which was on air around this time.

 

TBD finished in 1962.

As we see over and over, these inaccuracies are published and accepted as fact.

[Contessa Donatella]

I know! It's like second verse, here we go again! 

Agreed. Certainly there was concern maybe even fear at the highest levels for the very good reason that what they had was so economically successful, so of course this risk was scary but if anyone was brave she was.

Yes, he was. I have seen her associated with getting it on the air one other place but no details nor official title. Not the writer or creator so it made me wonder if she functioned as a kind of uncredited ad hoc producer, but then maybe she just supported it. At any rate that is nothing but supposition on my part. No data!

Yes, not a surprise anymore but still so frustrating! On one hand I am appreciative that she is included in this book, but scholarship where are you?!

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[Contessa Donatella]

 

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1996 Daytime Emmy Awards
Opening & 1st Emmy
In Primetime, on CBS, at Radio City Music Hall, NY, NY
Hosts: Eric Braeden & Melody Thomas Scott, featuring the Rockettes!
Best Supporting Actor nominees: GL Frank Beatty, B&B Ian Buchanan, GH Stuart Damon, AW David Forsyth, GH Michael Sutton, GL Jerry verDorn & Jerry takes home his second statue! In accepting he shouts out Bill Roerick.

[Contessa Donatella]

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1996 Daytime Emmys GH Best Show, their 4th win, Wendy Riche EP accepting she calls out 3 lost to death - Lee Mathis, Rosalind Cash & John Beradino. She concludes with Claire Labine's words, delivered by Mary Mae to Stone who was near death. It's famous now, "Every moment of my life, whether filled with joy or with pain has potential for grace realized. ... These are gifts from god. ..."