Lee Phillip Bell is a former talk show host and soap opera creator. A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... The first TIME cover devoted to soap operas: Dated January 12, 1976, Bill Hayes and Susan Seaforth Hayes of Days of Our Lives are featured with the headline Soap Operas: Sex and suffering in the afternoon. A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television...

Phillip Bell received a degree in microbiology from Northwestern University. While she worked part time in her family floral shop she acompanied her brother to the local television station where he worked on a local talk show demonstrating flower arrangement. After a time she took over this job from him and pursued other positions at the station (WBBM-TV Chicago) before being given her own show The Lee Phillip Show. This show is notable in that it was the first to show an on air self breast examination. She was a popular host and received 16 local Emmy Awards. The Arch, the main entrance to Northwesterns Evanston campus Northwestern University is a private university situated in Evanston, Illinois, on a 240 acre (970,000 m²) campus along the shores of Lake Michigan. ... WBBM-TV (CBS 2) is the Chicago-based owned & operated station of the CBS television network. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... An Emmy Award. ...

She married William J. Bell in 1954, which lasted until his death in 2005. During the early days of their marriage he was writting soap operas like Guiding Light, As the World Turns and Another World with Irna Phillips. Lee would learn about important issue via her television show and pass them along to her husband who in turn weaved them into his storylines. William Joseph Bell (March 6, 1927-April 29, 2005) was the creator and executive producer of the extremely successful soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful. ... 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Death is either the cessation of life in a living organism or the state of the organism after that event. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Guiding Light (or simply Guiding Light as its known today) is credited by the Guinness Book of World Records as being the longest soap opera ever told, as well as the longest running drama in broadcast history. ... As the World Turns (ATWT) is the second longest-running American television soap opera, airing each weekday on CBS. It debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30 in the afternoon. ... Another World is a book by Pat Barker. ... Irna Phillips (July 1, 1901 - December 22, 1973) wrote and created many of the first American soap operas. ...

Along with her husband she co-created the popular CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless in 1973 and its sister show The Bold and the Beautiful in 1987. She also served as executive producer of The Bold and the Beautiful in the 1980's. She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1975 for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series for Y&R. The Young and the Restless (commonly abbreviated to Y&R) is an American soap opera that takes place in Genoa City, Wisconsin (named after a vacation spot that series creators William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell visited annually). ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... The Bold and the Beautiful is a US television soap opera, created by Lee Phillip Bell and William J. Bell. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards presented by the New York- based National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Los Angeles-based Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. ...

In 1977 she was the first woman to receive the Governor's Award from the Chicago chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences or NATAS is branch of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences based in New York City. ...

She is the mother of William J. Bell, Jr., Lauralee Bell and Bradley Bell who are all involved in her soap operas and has 6 grandchildren. Lauralee Bell as Christine Blair Lauralee Kristen Bell (born December 22, 1968) is an American soap opera actress. ...

She and her husband lived in a house formerly owned by aviation mogle Howard Hughes. Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. ...

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