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She was born Agnes Eckhardt on Dec. Previous reports put her year of birth as but the announcement of her funeral Mass said she was born five years earlier. At Northwestern University, she studied drama alongside Charlton Heston and Patricia Neal but felt "outclassed," as an actor, Nixon later said, and turned to writing. Days after earning a bachelor's degree in the late s, Nixon was writing for Phillips on a radio soap.
On a blind date in , she met her future husband and soon agreed to marry him on one condition — that she could continue her career. They settled in the Philadelphia area and had four children in five years. With no time to travel to New York City for work, she returned to Phillips and soaps, writing at home and mailing in her scripts.
Having a bustling career in the "pre-Betty Friedan days" was tough and made her feel like a misfit, she told the Washington Post in For years, she and her husband split their time between the Philadelphia area and New York City. After he died in , Nixon said she found writing "All My Children" therapeutic. By then, she had long devoted herself to long-range plotting and still followed her mentor's maxim: "We don't just live the high points and low points, we live minute by minute.
Nixon is survived by her four children, Cathy, Mary, Robert and Emily; and 11 grandchildren. Within four years, ABC came calling with a powerful enticement — creative control.
Her husband, Robert Nixon, left his job as a Chrysler Corp. The show quickly won praise for realism after premiering in The show was set in Pine Valley, the presumptive dramatic equivalent of Rosemont, the Philadelphia suburb where Nixon lived in a pre-Revolutionary War home. As women increasingly entered the workforce, viewership eroded and the genre continued to lose ground to cable and offerings on the Internet.
She was born Agnes Eckhardt on Dec. Previous reports put her year of birth as but the announcement of her funeral Mass said she was born five years earlier. On a blind date in , she met her future husband and soon agreed to marry him on one condition — that she could continue her career.
They settled in the Philadelphia area and had four children in five years. With no time to travel to New York City for work, she returned to Phillips and soaps, writing at home and mailing in her scripts. For years, she and her husband split their time between the Philadelphia area and New York City. Here are just a few of the Hollywood stars who cut their teeth on Agnes Nixon shows. From the Archives: Agnes Nixon, the nicest person in daytime TV, made a fortune with tales of despair.
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