Doris Frankel

Doris Frankel was a playwright whose work found its way to Broadway, radio, and television; her career highlight was winning an Emmy Award for her work on the soap opera "All My Children." Ms. Frankel was the author of LOVE ME LONG, which starred Shirley Booth and Anne Jackson on Broadway in 1949. She also wrote DON’T THROW GLASS HOUSES, which was produced on Broadway in 1938. Ms. Frankel was born in Manhattan and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1931. Her husband, Phillip Barber, was the New York director of the Federal Theater, and Ms. Frankel was one of those involved in founding the Group Theater in the 1930s. At that time she also taught at the Yale Drama School. Ms. Frankel also helped create the radio characters Ma Perkins and Helen Trent. Her television work during the 1950s included dramas for "Playhouse 90" and "Hallmark Hall of Fame." In later years she was a head writer for daytime television dramas and wrote scripts for "General Hospital" and "Search for Tomorrow" in addition to "All My Children," for which she received an Emmy in the 1970s.