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My life to live : how I became the queen of soaps when men ruled the airwaves / Agnes Nixon.
- 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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Text | Request in advance | PN1992.4.N55 A3 2017 | Off-site |
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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.
- Subject
- Nixon, Agnes, 1922-2016
- Nixon, Agnes, 1922-2016
- All my children (Television program)
- One life to live (Television program)
- Women television writers > United States > Biography
- Women television producers and directors > United States > Biography
- Women television producers and directors
- Women television writers
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Women
- PERFORMING ARTS > Direction & Production
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Entertainment & Performing Arts
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
- PERFORMING ARTS / Television
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Biography.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780451498236
- 0451498232
- LCCN
- ^^2016044129
- OCLC
- 965781436
- SCSB-11410704
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library