Helen Jean Rogers Secondari (September 27, 1928 – March 28, 1998) was an American

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. She won five

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s and two

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s with her fellow producer and husband John H. Secondari.

Biography

Helen Jean Rogers graduated

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and

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from the

Catholic University of America The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private Roman Catholic research university in Washington, D.C. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by U.S. ...

. She received a

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from

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...

and became one of the first female

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s at

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. In 1961, Rogers married John H. Secondari with whom she co-produced ''

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''. They a daughter, Linda Helen. In addition she was step-mother to John's son, John Gerry, from his previous marriage. She died on March 28, 1998, in

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Filmography

* 1963 - ''

'' (producer) * 1967 - '' Christ Is Born'' (1967) (director) * 1968 - '' Rehearsal for D-Day'' (1967) (director)

References

External links

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at the

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1928 births 1998 deaths American television producers American women television producers Radcliffe College alumni Harvard Fellows Catholic University of America alumni 20th-century American women 20th-century American people {{US-tv-producer-stub