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	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
		Gloria Monty, a producer whose stewardship of the daytime drama General Hospital, which she joined in the late 1970s, helped to transform the cultural relevance and overall image of the soap opera genre, died on March 30.
		Monty, who was the model for the matriarchal soap opera producer in the 1982 film Tootsie, died of cancer at her home in Rancho Mirage.
		Monty, who was given less than six months to salvage it, devised a strategy to attract teens and college students to fill the gap created as increasing numbers of its core audience of women joined the workforce.
	www.emmys.org /news/2006/april/monty.php (415 words)

	Obituary: Gloria Monty / Groundbreaking soap opera producer, model for character in 'Tootsie' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Gloria Monty, a producer whose re-invention of the ABC daytime drama "General Hospital" in the late 1970s turned it into a pop phenomenon that helped modernize television soap operas, has died.
		Monty, who was the model for the motherly soap-opera producer in the 1982 Dustin Hoffman film "Tootsie," died of cancer Thursday at her home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., ABC announced.
		Monty left the series in 1992, ABC cited "personal reasons" as the cause of her departure.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/06095/679405-122.stm (461 words)

	Gloria Monty; producer guided 'GH' to pinnacle of soaps - The Boston Globe
		Gloria Monty, a producer whose reinvention of the ABC daytime drama ''General Hospital" in the late 1970s turned it into a pop phenomenon that helped modernize television soap operas, has died.
		Monty, who was the model for the motherly soap opera producer in the 1982 Dustin Hoffman film ''Tootsie," died of cancer Thursday at her home in Rancho Mirage.
		She was born Gloria Montemuro on Aug. 12, 1921, in New Jersey to Joseph, a builder, and his wife, Concetta.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2006/04/05/gloria_monty_producer_guided_gh_to_pinnacle_of_soaps (737 words)

	Monday, April 03, 2006
		Gloria Monty was born Gloria Montemuro on Aug.
		Monty, was a producer whose reinvention of the ABC daytime drama "General Hospital" in the late 1970s turned it into a pop phenomenon that helped modernize television soap operas.
		Monty, who was the model for the motherly soap opera producer in the 1982 Dustin Hoffman film "Tootsie," died of cancer Thursday at her home in Rancho Mirage, ABC announced.
	www.italystl.com /ra/2467.htm (1286 words)

	Gloria Monty; goundbreaking 'General Hospital' producer; 84 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Gloria Monty, a groundbreaking producer who turned the ABC daytime drama “General Hospital”; into a pop sensation in the late 1970s, has died.
		Monty took over the slumping show in 1978 and was given 13 weeks to turn it around.
		Monty's boldest – and most controversial – moves was a story line in which the characters Luke and Laura began a romance after he had raped her on the floor of a closed disco.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060406/news_1m6monty.html (349 words)

	In cerca di Duke...
		While Monty's contact didn't think he was right for the part because of his lack of acting experience (Buchanan had previously modeled), they sent her a tape anyway of Ian telling a story, for future reference.
		Here Norma Monty is clearly referring to Miss Devane's life before she was police chief of Port Charles -- a past that included working as a double agent and dealing in stolen art -- and Duke's regretted deal-making days with mobsters.
		Monty admits Crawford's role provided the basis for the Devane character, but the movie's plot -- a former criminal who falls in love with a master criminal -- may have trickled down to the present-day story.
	www.generalhospital.tv /in_cerca_di_duke.htm (2455 words)

	Soap maven Gloria Monty dead at 84
		General Hospital producer Gloria Monty, who turned the ABC soap into a pop phenomenon in the late 1970s, has died in California at age 84.
		Monty died of cancer Thursday at her home in Rancho Mirage, Calif., The Los Angeles Times reported Monday.
		Monty pushed General Hospital to the No. 1 daytime soap and went on to win two Emmy Awards.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/Entertainment/20060404/296751.html (201 words)

	Gloria Monty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gloria Monty (August 1921 -March 30, 2006) was an American TV producer working primarily in the field of daytime drama.
		Monty was given 13 weeks to turn the show around, with cancellation threatened if she did not succeed.
		Under Monty's watch the show rose to #1 in the Daytime TV ratings, with Luke and Laura's wedding being the highest rated soap opera episode in daytime history (about 30 million viewers).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gloria_Monty (440 words)

	Remembering Gloria Monty - General Hospital - Soap Opera Digest and Weekly
		After a tour of the studio designed to entice Monty backfired ("We went over and saw some appalling conditions there."), Silverman plied Monty with alternating doses of liquor and charm, "and, by the time I finished the last drink, I was doing GENERAL HOSPITAL," she recalled in a 1998 interview.
		Monty's controversial decisions sparked a nationwide GH frenzy, culminating in the highest ratings in soap history for Luke and Laura's 1981 wedding, with over 30 million viewers.
		Monty left a huge impression on the actors who, under her direction, rocketed GH to the top.
	soapoperadigest.com /features/gh/features/rememberinggloriamonty (1064 words)

	Monty sisters recall soap opera’s Luke & Laura days
		Hiring her sister Norma to head the show’s writing team, Gloria came up with a plot line twist that sent even the most disinterested soap watchers into a frenzy.
		You had to prove yourself a lot more than the men did," said Gloria, who lacked knowledge of the television camera and spent hours observing the cameramen until she had the craft mastered.
		Gloria, who told critics in the July 1987 issue of "Us Weekly" that the sexual encounter was not a rape "but a seduction," said the love story had a "Hitchcock quality, mystery and a lot of comedy,"
	independent.gmnews.com /news/2003/1001/Front_Page/054.html (1058 words)

	cbs2.com - Former 'General Hospital' Producer Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Monty was asked to take the reigns of “General Hospital” in 1978, as the long-running show struggled to survive.
		Monty is further credited with giving the soap opera's sets a more contemporary look and raising production values.
		Monty is survived by her sister, Norma, who was one of the head writers for the show during her sister's tenure as executive producer.
	cbs2.com /entertainment/local_story_091013410.html (414 words)

	GH News \| Legendary GH EP Gloria Monty Has Died \| General Hospital @ soapcentral.com
		Monty took over the reigns as executive producer of General Hospital in 1978, at a time when the ABC soap was reportedly on the verge of cancellation.
		Under her supervision, Monty helped lead the show into what many fans and critics consider to be a golden age.
		Another part of Monty's GH legacy will be some of the shows most memorable supercouples: Luke and Laura, Frisco and Felicia and Robert and Holly.
	www.soapcentral.com /gh/news/2006/0403-monty.php (454 words)

	Soap opera innovator Gloria Monty, 84
		When she took the reins of General Hospital in 1978, the show hovered on the brink of cancellation, and Monty was given 13 weeks to save it.
		With more women joining the workforce, the traditional audience for soap operas was eroding, and Monty needed to hook the teenage and college crowd.
		One of her boldest moves was a shocking story line: After the troubled Luke raped Laura, the sweetheart of the show, the pair began a romance.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/local/articles/0405death0405.html (315 words)

	Gloria Monty - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Gloria Monty (August 1921 -March 30, 2006) was an American TV producer working...
		Monty was given 13 weeks to turn the show around, with cancellation...
		Gloria Monty - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Gloria Monty Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/gloria-monty/118847/main (100 words)

	GLORIA MONTY DIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Monty took over US daytime soap opera in 1978, at a time when the show was struggling to find an audience.
		Monty introduced popular couple LUKE and LAURA SPENCER, the first of a series of "super-couples" that helped define the show.
		Monty is survived by her sister NORMA and the family has requested that the funeral arrangements remain private.
	www.pr-inside.com /print2576.htm (179 words)

	Z•E•S•T FOR LIVING
		CHRIS KELLY Norma (l) and Gloria Monty, Rumson, won four Emmy awards for their work on the long-running soap opera General Hospital.
		The Children’s Cultural Center, which is in the process of renovating a new location at the site of the former Red Bank Police Department headquarters on Monmouth Street, will honor the Monty sisters for their support on Sept. 6.
		General Hospital viewers were shocked, if not outraged, when Luke Spencer, lovesick and distraught at the Port Charles campus disco, rapes the show’s sweetheart Laura, who had literally grown up on the show.
	atlanticville.gmnews.com /news/2003/0829/Front_Page/040.html (1048 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Obituaries in the News
		RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (AP) - Gloria Monty, a groundbreaking producer who turned the ABC daytime drama "General Hospital" into a pop sensation in the late 1970s, died Thursday.
		Monty died of cancer at her home, ABC announced.
		Among Monty's boldest - and most controversial - moves was a story line in which the characters Luke and Laura began a romance after he had raped her on the floor of a closed disco.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2006/apr/03/040301580.html (880 words)

	SoapOperaHistory.com
		It was Monty who insisted the show expand to 60 minutes and insisted that the network re-do all of the sets.
		It was also Monty who literally threw out an entire weeks worth of episodes (that were set to launch the new 60 minute version) because they didn’t meet her expectations and had all of the episodes re-written and re-shot.
		Gloria’s penchant for younger characters and action/adventure storylines (combined with her style of quick cuts between shorter, faster moving scenes), now rather common, were innovative and shocking for the time and helped revolutionize the genre.
	soapoperahistory.com /daytime/series/generalhospital/index.htm (1754 words)

	parterre box the queer opera zine
		Monty's greatest claim to fame was the stunt casting of a 60-something Joan Crawford as an emergency substitute for daughter Christina Crawford on the soap Secret Storm.
		On the night before rehearsal, Gloria visited Joan at her apartment; Joan was excited about the role she was to play, comparing it to "Mildred Pierce." Joan asked that no publicity be issued for her appearance but the network couldn't resist the temptation.
		Monty attempted to keep her away from the alcohol during taping but Joan's performance was poor.
	www.parterre.com /2006/04/diva-wrangler.html (690 words)

	DaytimeTV.net - In Memoriam: Gloria Monty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Gloria Monty, executive producer on ABC Daytime's "General Hospital" for over a decade, succumbed to cancer Thursday, March 30, in Rancho Mirage, CA.
		Monty took over the reigns of "General Hospital" in 1978 at a critical time for the daytime drama.
		Monty's watch, "General Hospital" garnered five nominations for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series and won two, once in 1980-81 and again in 1983-84.
	daytimetv.net /content/view/603/36 (607 words)

	How Luke and Laura Changed Daytime Drama -- Jack Myers Media Village
		The whole Luke and Laura thing became the central component in the efforts of the show's executive producer at the time, the visionary Gloria Monty, to both rescue GH from the brink of cancellation and revitalize the then drab and dusty genre of daytime drama.
		Attracting young viewers was key to Monty's strategy, as it has been to the strategy of virtually every daytime and primetime programmer ever since.
		I interviewed Francis ten years ago for another publication, and at the time she recalled, "When I was 14 years old, Gloria Monty told my parents, 'I'm going after the young audience for the first time, and I'm using your daughter to do it.' She was smart to do that.
	www.mediavillage.com /jmentr/2006/11/16/jmer-11-16-06 (1204 words)

	The Anthony Geary Webpage
		Producer Gloria Monty (interestingly, she directed Crawford's Storm episodes) vacated her own office--the largest in the off-Sunset Blvd.
		Contrary to reports, Monty denies repainting Liz's dressing room to match her violet eyes, but the producer did irritate some actors' union members by making $109.25-per-day extras of Taylor's son and daughter-in-law, Christopher and Aileen Wilding, and her publicist, makeup man and hairdresser.
		Monty admits that her actors don't "sit around and drink coffee" and that she scrutinizes GH "to the last detail." but she concedes nothing.
	www.mcamy.net /geary/artint/art06.html (1211 words)

	Port Charles’ Charmer Comes Home
		Gloria Monty has really surpassed herself with this story, so it will be easy for me to have a wonderful time doing it.
		Gloria would call us all to the set and say, "I love all of you and these are the ratings."
		Gloria Monty was very supportive of my move to New York.
	www.geniefrancis.com /charmerint.html (1542 words)

	in search of Duke Lavery
		The fussy one was not Anna Devane, but her creator, the former executive producer of GH, Gloria Monty.
		Here Norma Monty is clearly referring to Miss Devane’s life before she was police chief of Port Charles- a past that included working as a double agent and dealing in stolen art- and Duke’s regretted deal-making days with mobsters.
		Monty admits Crawford’s role provided the basis for the Devane character, but the movie’s plot- a former criminal who falls in love with a master criminal- may have trickled down to the present-day story.
	www.scorpiofiles.com /articles/searchduke.html (1252 words)

	Gloria Monty -- an Honorary Unsubscribe
		A TV producer, Monty was hired to try to save an ailing daytime soap opera, and was given 13 weeks to improve its ratings.
		Under her leadership the show was the Number 1 daytime show for five years, and won a scad of Emmy Awards.
		Monty died March 30 from cancer at her California home.
	www.honoraryunsubscribe.com /gloria_monty.html (466 words)

	Remembering GH's Gloria Monty
		She is best remembered for saving GH from cancellation in 1978 and ushering in the show's golden age of action, adventure and romance.
		Tristan Rogers- "Gloria didn't come to General Hospital with an idea, she came with a vision.
		Kimberly McCullough- "When I was 7 years old, I was sitting on Gloria Monty's lap in the hair and makeup room and I was examining her jewels as always.
	www.scorpiofiles.com /thumbsup/gloriamonty.htm (512 words)

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