Family Card - Person Sheet
NameAgnes Eckhardt 
Birth10 Dec 1922, Chicago, ILL
Death28 Sep 2016, Haverford, PA
OccupationTV Writer
EducationNorthwester Univ
ReligionCatholic
FatherHarry Joseph Eckhardt
MotherAgnes Patricia Dalton
Misc. Notes
Created All My Children, One Life To Live, etc...
Born December 10, 1927, in Chicago, IL; daughter of Harry Joseph (a burial garments manufacturer) and Agnes Patricia (an insurance treasurer; maiden name,Dalton) Eckhardt; married Robert Henry Adolphus Nixon (an auto company executive), April 6, 1951; children: Catherine Agnes, Mary Frances, Robert Henry,Emily Anne. Addresses: HOMES--New York, NY, and Philadelphia, PA. OFFICE--c/o American Broadcasting Company, 1330 Avenue of the Americas, New York,NY 10019. AGENT--Louis Weiss, William Morris Agency, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019.
Agnes Eckhardt Nixon, creator of the soap operas Search for Tomorrow, One Life to Live, All My Children, and Loving, and contributor to several other serials, is recognized as a pioneer in introducing social relevance to daytime television. Topics such as the Vietnam war, abortion, drug addiction, child abuse, racism, and AIDS have been confronted in Nixon's story lines since the early 1960s, transforming the traditionally conservative and escapist nature ofdaytime serials into a forum for relaying socially pertinent messages. But Nixon stresses that the messages are conveyed "in an affirmative way, not a punitive way," as Rod Townley quoted her in TV Guide. "If you're punitive, thepeople you're trying to reach will just turn off the set.... Our primary mandate is to entertain, but I do think people are entertained by being made to think."
Nixon began her scriptwriting career three days after graduating from Northwestern University in the late 1940s. Hoping to discourage his daughter from choosing a career in writing, Nixon's father, Harry Eckhardt, secured for her an interview with Irna Phillips--"the querulous queen of soap opera," as Timemagazine described her--who created the radio serials Another World and The Guiding Light. After reading aloud one of Nixon's scripts, Phillips hired heron the spot to write dialogue for Women in White.
Read more: Agnes Nixon Biography (1927-) http://www.filmreference.com/film/28/Agnes-Nixon.html#ixzz1X09MdnDb
Born December 10, 1927, in Chicago, IL; daughter of Harry Joseph (a burial garments manufacturer) and Agnes Patricia (an insurance treasurer; maiden name,Dalton) Eckhardt; married Robert Henry Adolphus Nixon (an auto company executive), April 6, 1951; children: Catherine Agnes, Mary Frances, Robert Henry,Emily Anne. Addresses: HOMES--New York, NY, and Philadelphia, PA. OFFICE--c/o American Broadcasting Company, 1330 Avenue of the Americas, New York,NY 10019. AGENT--Louis Weiss, William Morris Agency, 1350 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10019.
Agnes Eckhardt Nixon, creator of the soap operas Search for Tomorrow, One Life to Live, All My Children, and Loving, and contributor to several other serials, is recognized as a pioneer in introducing social relevance to daytime television. Topics such as the Vietnam war, abortion, drug addiction, child abuse, racism, and AIDS have been confronted in Nixon's story lines since the early 1960s, transforming the traditionally conservative and escapist nature ofdaytime serials into a forum for relaying socially pertinent messages. But Nixon stresses that the messages are conveyed "in an affirmative way, not a punitive way," as Rod Townley quoted her in TV Guide. "If you're punitive, thepeople you're trying to reach will just turn off the set.... Our primary mandate is to entertain, but I do think people are entertained by being made to think."
Nixon began her scriptwriting career three days after graduating from Northwestern University in the late 1940s. Hoping to discourage his daughter from choosing a career in writing, Nixon's father, Harry Eckhardt, secured for her an interview with Irna Phillips--"the querulous queen of soap opera," as Timemagazine described her--who created the radio serials Another World and The Guiding Light. After reading aloud one of Nixon's scripts, Phillips hired heron the spot to write dialogue for Women in White.
Read more: Agnes Nixon Biography (1927-) http://www.filmreference.com/film/28/Agnes-Nixon.html#ixzz1X09MdnDb
Spouses
Birth20 Apr 1921, Brookfield Wis
Death2003, Rosemont, PA
OccupationAuto Exec.
EducationNorthwestern Univ
FatherRobert Thomas Ashton Nixon (1878-1936)
MotherOlga Frick (1885-1927)
Marriage6 Apr 1951