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Guiding light soap opera6/13/2023 ![]() When actor, Arthur Peterson, who played Reverend Ruthledge joined the army in 1944, Phillips also sent her character into the Army on the show – making him a chaplain. Irna was incredible in building her actors into believable characters. Cliffhanger endings were her trademark, and left fans on Fridays holding their collective breaths until Monday to find out what happened. ![]() She was also responsible for the plotting and for interchanging the characters. She was said to have written two million words per year for the six or so soap operas she was responsible for. The influential and creative, Irna Phillips was sometimes called the queen of soaps. From a 15 minute show, The Guiding Light’s intense drama became an hour long television serial in 1952 and ran concurrently on radio and TV until 1956 when the radio show was dropped. It was among the first of radio’s soap operas and became as successful on television as it was on the radio. Irna Phillips was the creator-writer of The Guiding Light, which went on in broadcast history to become the longest running series. Other radio actors included Ed Prentiss as Ned Holden, Ruth Bailey as Rose Kransky, Muriel Bremner as Fredrika Lang and Frank Behrens as the Reverend Tom Bannion, Reverend Rutledge’s assistant. Later, the show was taken over by Proctor & Gamble’s Duz Detergent and CBS television.įrom 1937 until the mid-forties Arthur Peterson was the voice of the Reverend John Rutledge and Mercedes McCambridge played the part of Mary, his daughter. The Guiding Light began its illustrious career on the radio, January 25, 1937, broadcast by NBC and sponsored by White Naphtha Soap. The actual maze of sets for the series was located at CBS Broadcast Center’s Stage 42, where the clans of Spaulding, Lewis and Cooper lived complex lives that most of us could never imagine. The Midwestern town of Springfield was the fictional setting during the past 72 years for the Soap Opera, The Guiding Light. The Guiding Light On Friday 18th September 2009 the close group of actors on Guiding Light said their goodbyes when the show finally closed – and that beacon of light was snuffed – causing a black void in its fans’ hearts.
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