Lee Phillip Bell

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Lee Phillip Bell

Lee Phillip Bell is a former talk show

Talk show

A talk show or chat show is a television or radio program where one person or group of people come together to discuss various topics put forth by a talk show talk show host....
host and soap opera

Soap opera

A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in Serial format on television or radio. Programs described as soap operas have existed as an entertainment long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap....
creator.

Lee Phillip Bell is one of the most notable graduates from what is now known as Riverside-Brookfield High School in Riverside, Illinois. Ms. Bell received a degree in microbiology from Northwestern University

Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a non-sectarian private university research university located in Evanston, Illinois and downtown Chicago, Illinois, United States....
. While she worked part time in her family floral shop she accompanied her brother to the local television station where he worked on a local talk show demonstrating flower arrangement.

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Lee Phillip Bell is a former talk show

Talk show

Soap opera

Northwestern University

WBBM-TV

WBBM-TV channel 2 is the CBS owned and operated station television station in Chicago, Illinois. WBBM-TV's main studios and offices are located within the CBS 2 Broadcast Center located in The Loop at 22 W Washington Street....
Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
) 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, her show ran from 1952 to 1986.

She married William J. Bell

William J. Bell

William Joseph Bell was the creator and executive producer of the extremely successful soap operas The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful....
in 1954, which lasted until his death

Death

Death is the permanent termination of the biological functions that define a life organism. It refers to both a particular event and to the condition that results thereby....
in 2005. During the early days of their marriage he was writing soap operas like Guiding Light

Guiding Light

Guiding Light is an United States television program credited by the Guinness World Records as being the longest-running soap opera in production and the longest running drama in television and radio history....
, As the World Turns

As the World Turns

As the World Turns is an American television soap opera that airs each weekday on CBS.Set in the fictional town of Oakdale , the show debuted on Monday, April 2, 1956 at 1:30pm Eastern Time Zone....
and Another World

Another World (TV series)

Another World is a television soap opera that ran on the NBC network from May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999. It was created by legendary serial creator Irna Phillips along with William J....
with Irna Phillips

Irna Phillips

Irna Phillips was an United States actress and most notably writer who created and scripted many of the first United States soap operas. She is considered by many to be the "mother" of the genre....
. 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.

Along with her husband she co-created the popular CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera, first broadcast on CBS on March 26, 1973. It was created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, who set their show in a Genoa City of Genoa City, Wisconsin, a town near their annual vacation home in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin....
in 1973 and its sister show The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful

The Bold and the Beautiful is an American television soap opera. Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers around the Forrester family and their Haute couture business Forrester Creations....
in 1987. She also served as executive producer of The Bold and the Beautiful in the 1980s. She won a Daytime Emmy Award in 1975 for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series for Y&R.

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.

She is the mother of William J. Bell, Jr., Lauralee Bell

Lauralee Bell

Lauralee Kristen Bell is an United States soap opera actor. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. She attended The Latin School of Chicago.The daughter of soap opera creators William J....
and Bradley Bell

Bradley Bell

Bradley Bell is an American television writer and producer....
who are all involved in her soap operas and has 6 grandchildren. Her brother Russ Phillips is the owner of , one of Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
's premiere florists.

She and her husband lived in a house formerly owned by aviation mogul Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American aviator, industrialist, film producer and director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world....
and also Cary Grant located in Beverly Hills.

In 2007 Bell was awarded a Daytime Emmy for Lifetime Achievement for her contributions to daytime television.

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