Betty Corday Ted Corday Irna Phillips Elizabeth Shay Corday March 21, 1912-November 17, 1987
Elizabeth (Betty) Corday, creator
and executive producer of the first color daytime television soap opera
"Days of Our Lives," has died of respiratory failure. She was 75. Mrs. Corday, known to
all in the industry as Betty, won a Daytime Drama Series Emmy for her work in 1978 and was nominated for three others. She
died Monday, November 17 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
A former actress and casting
director, Mrs. Corday created the television series in 1965 with her
husband, Ted. When he died of cancer a year later, she took over production of the show.
Her son Kenneth currently is a co-producer of the series.
Mrs. Corday began her career on
Broadway, where she was "in one flop after another," she once said. It was
in New York that she met Ted Corday, who had left his law practice in Canada to
pursue a career as a stage director. They were married in 1942
and began their theatrical collaboration.
Frances Reid, an original cast
member of "Days of Our Lives," said Mrs. Corday was "absolutely marvelous
with casting. She made it her business to know people." Reid said Mrs. Corday
initially had difficulty persuading NBC that she was capable of
producing "Days of Our Lives." "She finally got it
firmly in her hands and kept it in the family for her and for Kenny," Reid
said. Mrs. Corday also is survived by another son, Christopher. (Los Angeles Times, 11/20/87)
Elizabeth Corday, the longtime
executive producer of the daytime drama "Days of Our Lives," died of
respiratory failure, Monday, November 17, 1987 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los
Angeles, California. She was 75 years old.
Mrs. Corday, who won an Emmy for
her work on "Days of Our Lives" in 1978, created the daytime television
series- the first color soap opera - in 1965 with her husband, Ted. He died one year
later.
Mrs. Corday is survived by two
sons: Kenneth, who is co-producer of the series, and Christopher.
(New York Times,
11/20/87) |
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Theodore Corday
May 8, 1908-July 23, 1966 |
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Irna Phillips
July 21, 1901-December 23, 1973 |
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