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	Irna Phillips Summary
		Phillips was one of ten children born to a German Jewish family in the Midwest United States.
		Phillips is also said to have suffered a still-born child at the age of 19.
		House left the show, but Irna transferred her hatred onto the character and had Liz, who was since replaced by another actress, die due to a ruptured spleen as a result of falling up the stairs (a rarity in daytime drama and perhaps in all of modern medicine).
	www.bookrags.com /Irna_Phillips (2653 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Irna_Phillips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Phillips was one of ten children born to an Jewish family in the Midwest United States.
		Phillips is also said to have suffered a still-born child at the age of 19.
		Memories of Irna Phillips from the point of Agnes Nixon and several other "behind the scenes" individuals can be found in the book "All Her Children" by Dan Wakefield published in 1976.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Irna_Phillips (2471 words)

	Irna Phillips - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Irna Phillips (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Irna was quoted as calling up her serial, As the World Turns, after an episode had aired that she did not particularly like.
		Irna had been in the midst of a feud with actress Jane House (who played Liz Talbot) because House was appearing on Broadway by night doing nude scenes (in Lenny).
		House left the show, but Irna transferred her hatred onto the character and had Liz, who was since replaced by another actress, die due to a ruptured spleen as a result of falling up the stairs.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Irna-Phillips.html (1124 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Phillips,
		In 1973 she married a British army officer, Mark Phillips, but they were divorced in 1992 and she married Timothy Laurence.
		The symbiotic alliance of Duncan Phillips and Alfred Stieglitz.
		Phillips is coming west, a different way this time.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Phillips,&StartAt=11 (836 words)

	Phillips, Irna
		Phillips pioneered in radio many of the devices she would later put to successful (eventually cliched) use in television.
		But despite Phillips legendary golden touch and her importance to the daytime drama, by the 1970s the times and the genre were leaving her behind.
		Phillips believed her success was based on her focus on character rather than on overly complicated plots and her exploration of universal themes: self-preservation, sex, and family.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/P/htmlP/phillipsirn/phillipsirn.htm (1152 words)

	Soap Opera
		Irna Phillips, who had recently left her job as a speech teacher to try her hand at radio, was assigned to write Painted Dreams, as the show was called, and play two of its three regular parts.
		Irna Phillips created and wrote some of the most successful radio soap operas in the 1930s and 1940s, including Today's Children (1932), The Guiding Light (1937), and Woman in White (1938).
		Irna Phillips wrote the soap opera as a sequel to the film, in which the couple's daughter moves to San Francisco and falls in love with a local doctor.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/S/htmlS/soapopera/soapopera.htm (5947 words)

	Soap Operas
		Sharing the credit for the earliest soaps were Irna Phillips, a WGN staff writer, and the advertising agency team of Anne Ashenhurst and her eventual husband, Frank Hummert.
		Irna Phillips thus earned the title “Queen of the Soap Operas.” The Hummerts' writing team churned out as many as 90 episodes weekly.
		Only at the end of World War II did the soaps begin their irreversible exodus from the Chicago studios where they were born.
	www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org /pages/1156.html (306 words)

	CalendarHome.com - As the World Turns - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		As the World Turns was the creation of Irna Phillips who, beginning in the 1930s, had been one of the foremost creators and writers of radio soap operas.
		As a writer, Phillips favored character development and psychological realism over melodrama, and her previous creations (which included The Guiding Light) were especially notable for placing professionals - doctors, lawyers, and clergypeople - at the center of their storylines.
		One of Phillips' innovations was to introduce a sort of Greek chorus to the stories.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=As_the_World_Turns (3765 words)

	IRNA PHILLIPS PAST THE SURFACE, INTO THE DEPTHS OF INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Irna Phillips (July_1, 1901 - December_22, 1973) wrote and created many of the first American soap_operas.
		Although this show started unsponsored Phillips quickly recognised that a radio series must be a "utility to its sponsors" and that it must "actually sell merchandise; otherwise the object of radio advertising has failed" With this in mind she wrote in an engagement and a wedding which provided the possibility of product tie ins.
		In the meantime Phillips created a new show ''Today's_Children'', which was little more than a thinly disguised version of Painted Dreams.
	www.sneakpast.com /Irna_Phillips (2409 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Love_is_a_Many_Splendored_Thing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Soap writer and creator Irna Phillips was hired to adapt the movie for television, picking up the story some years after the end of the film.
		In the beginning, the star of the show was Nancy Hsueh, but since her character was deemed too controversial, she was phased out within the first year.
		One of the characters, Sister Laura Donnelly (played by Donna Mills), tried to fight off carnal desires she had for a man, a move that proved to be very controversial and ended up necessitating the woman to leave the church due to this conflict.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Love_is_a_Many_Splendored_Thing (668 words)

	Another World (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was co-created by Irna Phillips and William J. Bell.
		In the beginning, the show was pure coffee-table high melodrama revolving around two branches of the Matthews family in a midwestern town called Bay City, a goal that was attained by veteran soap writer and creator Irna Phillips.
		When Phillips created the show, she saw it as a sister program to her other creation, As the World Turns, and that there would be crossover storylines and characters between the two programs; even the title of Another World suggested similarity to ATWT.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Another_World_(TV_series) (4079 words)

	MTR \| She Made It \| Irna Phillips
		Irna Phillips is credited with creating an entire programming genre, the soap opera, and introducing many of the conventions that define its structure, such as its serial narrative and cliffhanger endings.
		Phillips was born in Chicago in 1901, the youngest of ten children, and was, by her own description, “a plain, sickly, silent child, with hand-me-down clothes and no friends.” Books and her vivid imagination were Phillips’s primary forms of entertainment.
		Rather than face the typewriter herself, Phillips each morning sat at a card table in her Chicago living room with a predetermined story line and dictated dialogue to her secretary, changing accents or vocal styles for each character.
	www.shemadeit.org /meet/biography.aspx?m=47 (934 words)

	TV Week
		In 1937 a writer named Irna Phillips had the idea for a new radio show based on the theme, "There is a destiny that makes us brothers; none does his way alone." When the lead character, the Rev. John Ruthledge, placed a candle in the window to light the way, "Guiding Light" was born.
		Phillips, who died in 1973 at the age of 72, had a good grasp on what her audience liked, and her soap operas were hugely successful.
		Last week, on the anniversary of her 15th year in radio, writer Phillips was wrestling with a newly publicized approach to her craft.
	www.tvweek.com /article.cms?articleId=31388 (1829 words)

	SoapOperaHistory.com
		In the beginning of the TV version, the focus was squarely on the Bauer family (father Papa, daughters Meta and Trudy, and son Bill), but true dramatic events were squarely on drama queen daughter Meta, her marriage to reporter Joe Roberts, and her dealings with difficult step-children Kathy Roberts and Joey Roberts.
		Written by creator Irna Phillips, TGL proved to be her first successful soap opera on television.
		Irna would fulfill her dream a few years later, however, with the premiere of the 30 minute As the World Turns in 1956.
	www.soapoperahistory.com /daytime/series/guidinglight (609 words)

	ATWT/GL Creator - Irna Phillips
		Irna Phillips was a school teacher from Dayton, Ohio.
		Irna used many of her own personal experiences as ideas for her stories.
		On December 23, 1973, Irna died in Chicago at the age of 72.
	www.soap-news.com /gl/a/irna.htm (384 words)

	WoST Celebrates 50 Years of ATWT & EON!
		Though her roots ran deep in radio, this remarkable women, with all the delicate care of an expert botanist, performed an amazing transplant unlike any other and revitalized a dying art that has since flourished in a way few could have guessed.
		Irna Phillips wished to expand "The Guiding Light" to a full half-hour, but the idea was nixed by show sponsor and owner Procter and Gamble.
		Though Irna Phillips' ground-breaking "As the World Turns" remains on the air, "The Edge of Night" went dark on December 28, 1984.
	www.wost.org /50.html (479 words)

	Soap Operas History \| sjpc_04_package.xml
		The first soap opera, Painted Dreams, was developed in 1931 for WGN radio in Chicago by Irna Phillips, who would go on to become the most prolific creator of soap operas for both radio and television.
		Phillips employed the same enticements to secure advertisers for her other serial inventions, and the genre's characteristic sponsor ties were established.
		Phillips' Today's Children, sponsored by Pillsbury, evolved into the first network soap opera when NBC began airing it nationwide in 1933.
	www.bookrags.com /history/soap-operas-sjpc-04 (429 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He started out as a comedy writer at WBBM in Chicago, and one day he made a call to Irna Phillips' secretary, Rose Cooperman, asking her "Does Irna have an opening?" Cooperman told him that Phillips did have an opening.
		Phillips remembered who he was; she also knew his wife, who was a celebrity in Chicago at that time.
		He started his writing career on Guiding Light and then moved over to As the World Turns, working under the legendary "Queen of Soaps," Irna Phillips; Phillips' other protegee at the time was Agnes Nixon.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=William_J._Bell (621 words)

	Guiding Ligth Spoiler - Soap Ligt Guiding Opera : City Lighte Guiding
		The program was created by soap writer Irna Phillips, and began as an NBC radio serial on January 25, 1937 before moving to CBS on June 30, 1952, as a televised serial.
		It was moved from Chicago to Hollywood (despite objections of both Irna Phillips and Arthur Peterson) to take advantage of the talent pool.
		After Irna Phillips moved to As The World Turns in 1958, her protege Agnes Nixon became Head Writer of The Guiding Light.
	www.news2be.info /entertainment/guiding-light.htm (326 words)

	With Significance \| TIME
		Irna Phillips suddenly realized one day that she had been "subconsciously" educating her listeners all along.
		Miss Phillips is in dead earnest about her "personal crusade." Neither her sponsor (General Mills) nor NBC has gone out of its way to encourage her.
		But shrewd Spinster Phillips, certain that she is on the right track, has hired a special "sociological and psychological adviser" to help her carry on.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,775848,00.html (531 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Irna
		Keeping a Bright `Light' Shining; Irna Phillips' Vision of the Ties That Bind Set a Course for Character-Driven Drama and Changed the Face of Television.(Irna Phillips)
		IRNA Chief Summoned to Press Court over Complaints.
		of report in English by Iranian news agency IRNA Tehran, 25 February: At the conclusion of vote counting in the Greater...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Irna (379 words)

	UK needs more Muslim police, says race relations chair - Irna (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In a speech on Monday night, Phillips was expected to question whether the UK's police and security services are 'fit for purpose' in the wake of the recent blundering anti-terrorism raid on a Muslim family house in Forest Gate, east London.
		In his speech, he said the process of diversifying police and security forces is an improving one, with the security services and police becoming more integrated every year, but warned that the change is not keeping up with the growing need.
		He said that whatever turns out to be true about the intelligence and the conduct of the operation, in which a 23-year old Muslim was shot, there are still two major questions to answer.
	www.irna.ir /en/news/view/menu-234/0606199034184532.htm (570 words)

	Savoring Soaps: GL's Anniversary: Irna Knew Best!
		Irna Phillips of course was the creator of GL and in fact created the whole form of American soap.
		From Irna's first entrance into GL's radio studio, with Beth Ehlers done up like Myrna Loy in The Thin Man (in an expensive 1930s gray shearling hat and matching coat), most everyone in today's GL cast got to play a figure in GL history, who themselves were often playing classic characters.
		We saw Irna "writing" her show in her Chicago apartment, acting out every line as every word was faithfully taken down by stenographer Rose (Liz Keifer).
	blogs.mediavillage.com /savoring_soaps/archives/2007/01/gls_anniversary.html (1759 words)

	Phillips Coat of Arms
		The ancestors of the bearers of the name Phillips were the ancient Britons that inhabited in the hills and moors of Wales.
		First found in Kent where legend has it that the family (but not the surname) is descended from Maximus, the Briton, Roman Emperor from 383 until his death in 388, and the King of Britain, when he married the daughter of Octavius, King of the Britons.
		Descendants of William and Elizabeth (Iser) Phillips of Columbiana County, Ohio By Rita Hineman Townsend, Hatfield and Phillips Families of Eastern Kentucky and Southwestern Virginia by Harry Leon Sellards.
	www.houseofnames.com /xq/asp.c/qx/phillips-coat-arms.htm (780 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Soap Operas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The first soap opera, Painted Dreams, was developed in 1931 for WGN radio in Chicago by Irna Phillips, who would go on to become the most prolific creator of soap operas for both radio and television.
		Phillips employed the same enticements to secure advertisers for her other serial inventions, and the genre's characteristic sponsor ties were established.
		Phillips' Today's Children, sponsored by Pillsbury, evolved into the first network soap opera when NBC began airing it nationwide in 1933.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_tov/ai_2419101120 (851 words)

	Guiding Light Radio Recordings OTR MP3 List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The brainchild of Irna Phillips, this show is based on her life experiences.
		When she was 19, an unmarried Irna gave birth to a still-born child.
		Irna Phillips later published these sermons, and they became a best-selling book.
	www.otrcat.com /guidinglight.htm (287 words)

	Daytime Programming:Recorded Sound Section--Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
		Anne Hummert (1905-1996), Irna Phillips (1901-1973), and Elaine Sterne Carrington (1892-1958) were three of the most creative and prolific women writing soap operas during the genre's heyday on the radio.
		Irna Phillips, who actually wrote most of her own scripts, created Guiding Light, one of the longest-running soap operas in 1937.
		Phillips was a pioneer who created many techniques—cliffhangers, organ-music bridges between scenes, and characters appearing concurrently in different serials—that are taken for granted in soaps today.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/awhhtml/awrs9/daytime.html (858 words)

	Another World - Zap2it - TV Show
		Irna Phillips created another World as a vision.
		The daytime legend originally planned for Another World to be a spin-off from the already established As The World Turns, with the core family being friends with the Hughes family from ATWT.
		Phillips' plans for the concept changed since it wouldn't be airing on the same network as her other creation.
	tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,273\|1406\|1\|,00.html (194 words)

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