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Phillips got her start in show business doing voice over and acting work for WGN radio in Chicago, her hometown. She started writing radio serials for WGN, which quickly spread across the country. Her most famous radio shows were Today's Children , The Brighter Day, and The Guiding Light.

She is best known for creating soap operas for television, like Guiding Light ( 1937- 1955 on radio, and 1952-present on television), The Brighter Day ( 1948- 19561956 is a leap year starting on Sunday. see link for calendar) Events January January 1 End of Anglo- Egyptian Condominium in Sudan. January 16 President Gamal Abdal Nasser of Egypt vows to reconquer Palestine January 26 1956 Winter Olympic Games open in on radio and 1954Events January events January 14 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator forming the American Motors Corporation January 14 Marilyn Monroe weds Joe DiMaggio. January 15 Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya January 20 The Nati- 1962Events January January 1 Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand January 3 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro January 4 New York City introduces a train that operates without a crew on-board January 8 Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is e on television), As the World TurnsNovember 2003. As the World Turns (ATWT is the second longest-running American television soap opera, airing each weekday on CBS. It debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30 in the afternoon. Before this show (and The Edge of Night which premiered on the (1956-present), and Another WorldAnother World AW was a Daytime Emmy-winning American soap opera which ran on the NBC television network from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It was co-created by Irna Phillips and William J. 8891 episodes of Another World were produced. AW spawned two soap ( 1964Events January January 1 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. January 3 Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President. January 5 In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Ort- 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep).

She also created Love is a Many Splendored ThingLove is a Many Splendored Thing was a soap opera which aired on CBS from September 18, 1967 to March 23, 1973. The show was a spin off from the original 1955 20th Century Fox movie. The title of the show was sans the hyphen used in the movie's title. ( 1967- 1973), the short-lived Our Private World ( 1965), the radio version of Young Dr. Malone , and Days of Our Lives (1965-present). Irna was creative consultant of Peyton Place ( 1964- 1969).

1 Her temperament

Rumors abound that Phillips was very hard to work with. Irna was quoted as calling up her serial, As the World Turns, after an episode had aired that she did not particularly like. The receptionist answered the phone: "As the World Turns." Irna responded, "Not today it didn't!" and hung up the receiver. She has also been rumored to have driven some of her stars, like Rosemary Prinz, to nervous breakdowns. In 1958, she had a popular Guiding Light character, Kathy Roberts, killed off. Rumor had it she did it to make As the World Turns, which was faltering in the ratings, more successful. The ratings moved up that year and took the top spot for the first time that fall, but there has been no solid proof of a direct correlation.

She left Love is a Many Splendored Thing abruptly when CBS censors refused to fully tell a love story involving an Amerasian woman and a white man. It was at this time that As the World Turns asked her to come back to write for them. The show, which had faltered in the ratings slightly, needed a boost to make sure that it could keep the #1 slot.

The ratings went back up, but over time, the stories failed to compete with rival soap Another World (which was created by Phillips), and in November 1971, As the World Turns fell out of first place for the first time since 1959. Irna introduced a number of characters to the show and integrated them with the core Hughes family. However, ATWT was now in competition with both Another World and General Hospital for the top slot, and Procter and Gamble, the show's sponsor, made it clear that Irna's days would be numbered if she did not succeed in driving the show's ratings up again. Angry, Irna wrote a key character out of the show, having her die due to a ruptured spleen as a result of falling up the stairs. P&G did not like the choices Irna was making with the serial, and fired her in early 1973. She retired from soaps completely and died later that year.

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