The Queen of Soap Operas

Anna Phillips was one of the real first amazing writers for soap operas. She wrote two million words a year at her best and invented cliffhanger endings. Her show Painted Dreams, which started airing in 1930, pushed forward this idea that women were more than what society was saying they were. And so that was sort of like a beautiful little secret movement to push women's rights. But I think really it was snobbishness, wasn't it? They were aimed towards women and often made by women.