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My life to live : how I became the queen of soaps when men ruled the airwaves

Title: My life to live : how I became the queen of soaps when men ruled the airwaves / Agnes Nixon.
Author: Nixon, Agnes, 1922-2016
Publication: New York : Crown Archetype, [2017]

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Description

xv, 266 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 22 cm

Summary

In this memoir, Agnes Nixon--the television pioneer who wrote and produced the award-winning soap operas All my children and One life to live--outlines her own dramatic life and how she broke network taboos about controversial issues and began a long line of female showrunners.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Biography.

Contents

Paper dolls -- The problem with perfection -- Guiding lights -- The mills of God -- The promise of a kiss -- The eighth child -- Lieutenant Priester -- Freedom of opportunity -- New frontiers -- Search for tomorrow -- Best man -- Settling down -- The tie that binds -- Pine Valley dreams -- One life to live -- Make 'em laugh, make 'em cry, make 'em wait -- The power of the pencil -- The ratings speak -- Actors and me -- Time and tide.

Call Number

MWES (Nixon, A.) 17-2071

ISBN

9780451498236
0451498232

LCCN

2016044129

OCLC

965781436

Author

Nixon, Agnes, 1922-2016, author.

Title

My life to live : how I became the queen of soaps when men ruled the airwaves / Agnes Nixon.

Publisher

New York : Crown Archetype, [2017]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

MWES (Nixon, A.) 17-2071

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