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4th Daytime Emmy Awards
The 4th Daytime Emmy Awards were held Thursday, May 12, 1977, on NBC to commemorate excellence in daytime programming from the previous year (1976). The live coverage held from Tavern on the Green restaurant in Central Park, New York. The fourth awards only had three categories, and thus three awards were given. Hosts were Peter Marshall, Chuck Woolery, Victoria Wyndham, Jack Gilford, and Soupy Sales with a special guest appearance by Gilda Radner of ''Saturday Night Live''. Telecast from 3-4:30 p.m., the awards preempted '' Another World'' and '' The Gong Show''. Winners in each category are in bold. Outstanding Daytime Drama Series *''All My Children'' *'' Another World'' *''Days of Our Lives'' *''The Edge of Night'' *''Ryan's Hope'' Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama Series * Larry Keith (Nick Davis, ''All My Children'') * James Pritchett (Dr. Matt Powers, '' The Doctors'') * Farley Granger ( Dr. Will Vernon, '' One Life to Live'') * Val Dufour (John Wyatt, '' Searc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Academy Of Television Arts And Sciences
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) is an American professional service organization founded in 1955 for "the advancement of the arts and sciences of television and the promotion of creative leadership for artistic, educational and technical achievements within the television industry". Headquartered in New York City, NATAS membership is national and the organization has local chapters around the country. It was also known as the National Television Academy until 2007. NATAS distributes several groups of Emmy Awards, including those for daytime, sports, and news and documentary programming. Organization One of its past presidents, Don DeFore, was instrumental in arranging for the Emmy Awards to be broadcast on national TV for the first time on March 7, 1955. Other past presidents include Diana Muldaur, John Cannon, Peter Price, Frank Radice and Bob Mauro. Programs NATAS distributes several groups of Emmy Awards, including the Daytime Emmy Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Haines
Larry Haines (born Larry Hecht; August 3, 1918 – July 17, 2008) was an American actor. Early years Haines was born on August 3, 1918 in Mount Vernon, New York. (Some sources say August 18, 1918, in the same city). He had been active in dramatics in high school, and while he was in college, he was advised to try acting. After a few months of instruction in dramatics, he passed an audition with CBS. He dropped out during his sophomore year of college and "went right into radio working on little stations all around New York City," beginning at WWRL. Radio Haines first became known in the 1930s as an actor on the radio crime series ''Gangbusters''. Playing Joe Lincoln, he was the star of ''Treasury Agent'' on the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1947-48, and he had the title role of Mike Hammer in '' That Hammer Guy'' on Mutual in 1953-54. He also was featured in ''The Chase'', '' Cloak and Dagger'', ''Inner Sanctum Mystery'', ''The Man Behind the Gun'', and '' This Is Nora Drake''.D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Search For Tomorrow
''Search for Tomorrow'' is an American television soap opera. It began its run on CBS on September 3, 1951, and concluded on NBC, 35 years later, on December 26, 1986. Set in the fictional town of Henderson in an unspecified state, the show focused primarily on the character of Joanne, known to the audience as "Jo." Actress Mary Stuart played Jo for the entire run. Broadcast history and production notes ''Search for Tomorrow'' was created by Roy Winsor and was first written by Agnes Nixon (then known professionally as Agnes Eckhardt) for the series' first 13 weeks and later by Irving Vendig. The program was one of several daytime soap operas produced from the 1950s through the 1980s by Procter & Gamble Productions, the broadcasting arm of the famed household products corporation. Procter & Gamble used the program, as well as the company's other serials, to advertise its products (such as its Joy dishwashing liquid and Spic and Span household cleaner). As ''Search''s ratings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Dufour
Albert Valéry Dufour (February 5, 1927 – July 27, 2000), known as Val Dufour, was an American actor. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Dufour's parents were of Parisian French descent. Dufour first appeared on episodic television in 1952, and amassed appearances on over a dozen series. He was best known for his role as John Wyatt on the soap opera ''Search for Tomorrow'', which he played from 1972 to 1979. Dufour won a Daytime Emmy Award for his performance in 1977. Before his debut on ''Search for Tomorrow'', Dufour was also noted for his role as Walter Curtin on '' Another World'' from 1967 to 1972 and for his role of Andre Lazar on ''The Edge of Night''. Dufour died in Manhattan in 2000 of cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal bl .... Filmography Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Life To Live
''One Life to Live'' (often abbreviated as ''OLTL'') is an American soap opera broadcast on the ABC television network for more than 43 years, from July 15, 1968, to January 13, 2012, and then on the internet as a web series on Hulu and iTunes via Prospect Park from April 29 to August 19, 2013. Created by Agnes Nixon, the series was the first daytime drama to primarily feature ethnically and socioeconomically diverse characters and consistently emphasize social issues. ''One Life to Live'' was expanded from 30 minutes to 45 minutes on July 26, 1976, and then to an hour on January 16, 1978. ''One Life to Live'' heavily focuses on the members and relationships of the Lord family. Actress Erika Slezak began portraying the series' central protagonist Victoria Lord in March 1971 and played the character continuously for the rest of the show's run on ABC Daytime, winning a record six Daytime Emmy Awards for the role. In 2002, the series won an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Life To Live Minor Families
This is a list of characters that have appeared on the ABC Daytime and TOLN soap opera, '' One Life to Live''. A B C D E F G H J K L M N O P R S T V W Y Z See also * One Life to Live characters (1968–79) * One Life to Live characters (1980s) * One Life to Live characters (1990s) * One Life to Live characters (2000s) * One Life to Live characters (2010s) This is a list of characters from the ABC Daytime– Prospect Park soap opera, ''One Life to Live'', that began their run between the beginning of 2010 and the final cancelation of the show. Tomás Delgado Tomás Delgado is a fictional chara ... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of One Life To Live Characters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farley Granger
Farley Earle Granger Jr. (July 1, 1925 – March 27, 2011) was an American actor, best known for his two collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock: ''Rope'' in 1948 and '' Strangers on a Train'' in 1951. Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in '' The North Star'' (1943), a controversial film praising the Soviet Union at the height of World War II, but later condemned for its political bias. Another war film, '' The Purple Heart'' (1944), followed, before Granger's naval service in Honolulu, in a unit that arranged troop entertainment in the Pacific. Here he made useful contacts, including Bob Hope, Betty Grable and Rita Hayworth. It was also where he began exploring his bisexuality, which he said he never felt any need to conceal. His role in Hitchcock's ''Rope'', a fictionalized account of the Leopold and Loeb murder case of 1924, earned him much critical praise though the film got mixe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Doctors (1963 TV Series)
''The Doctors'' is an American daytime soap opera television series which aired on NBC from April 1, 1963, to December 31, 1982. There were 5,155 episodes produced, with the 5,000th episode airing in May 1982. The series was set in Hope Memorial Hospital in a fictional New England town called Madison. From anthology to serial On , ''The Doctors'' debuted as an anthology series rather than a conventional soap opera, a very ambitious concept for that time. Stories were originally self-contained within one episode and featured various medical emergencies. On , because of the obvious burdens and expense of casting for separate stories each day and due to ratings being lower than expected, stories were expanded to weekly arcs with a new plot introduced every Monday and concluding that week on Friday. This, however, was only marginally more successful than the daily anthology format had been. Beginning on , ''The Doctors'' ceased its experimental anthology format and became a tradit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Pritchett (actor)
James Turner Pritchett Jr. (October 27, 1922 – March 15, 2011) was an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Matt Powers on the soap opera '' The Doctors''.- He was born in Lenoir, North Carolina in 1922. He appeared in the serial for its duration, from 1963 to 1982, and was the soap's central cast member, with the Powers character being one of the serial's "tentpole" characters. In 1978 he won an Emmy for Best Actor for this role. Before creating his role on ''The Doctors'', Pritchett played the roles of Jeff Nichols on ''The Secret Storm'' and Bruce Elliott on the CBS soap opera ''As the World Turns'', a not-so-popular character who was having an affair with the married vixen Lisa Hughes (Eileen Fulton). After ''The Doctors'', Pritchett did a short term role on another CBS soap, ''Guiding Light''. Pritchett was given an audience with then-President Jimmy Carter in 1978 along with a few other select soap opera actors, such as Eileen Fulton, Susan Lucci, and Dorot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Keith
Larry Keith (March 4, 1931 – July 17, 2010) was an American actor who was a cast member on the ABC soap opera ''All My Children'' and was the first American to play the role of Henry Higgins in the Broadway production of ''My Fair Lady''.Fox, Margalit"Larry Keith, Television and Stage Actor, Dies at 79" ''The New York Times'', July 21, 2010. Accessed July 21, 2010. He was born on March 4, 1931, in Brooklyn as Lawrence Jay Korn and adopted his stage name when he started acting. His early training was as a singer, and he earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Brooklyn College. He was drafted while he was a graduate student in music at Indiana University Bloomington and spent his time in the United States Army performing in shows for troops stationed in South Korea. In the 1961 Broadway production of ''My Fair Lady'', Keith served as an understudy to Michael Allinson and played the role of Higgins some 50 times. In an interview with the ''New York Herald Tribune'' before his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Edge Of Night
''The Edge of Night'' is an American television mystery crime drama series and soap opera, created by Irving Vendig and produced by Procter & Gamble Productions. It debuted on CBS on April 2, 1956, and ran as a live broadcast on that network for most of its run until November 28, 1975. The series then moved to ABC, where it aired from December 1, 1975, until December 28, 1984. 7,420 episodes were produced, of which some 1,800 are available for syndication. Writer Sir P.G. Wodehouse, actresses Bette Davis and Tallulah Bankhead, as well as Eleanor Roosevelt, were all reportedly devoted fans. Concept ''The Edge of Night'', whose working title was ''The Edge of Darkness'', premiered on April 2, 1956, as one of the first two half-hour serials on television, the other being ''As the World Turns''. Prior to the debuts of both shows, 15-minute-long shows had been the standard. Both shows aired on CBS, sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The show was originally conceived as the daytime ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
