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Harding Lemay (March 16, 1922 – May 26, 2018), also known as Pete Lemay, was an American screenwriter and playwright. He was best known for his stint as head writer of the soap opera Another World.[1]

Career

Lemay was head writer of the soap opera Another World,[1] from 1971 to 1979. The series earned a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 1976. By 1979, Lemay decided not to continue writing the series for a ninth straight calendar year, and first handed over the reins to a new writer before exiting for good later that year. He also wrote out three of the show's most popular actors: George Reinholt (Steve Frame), Jacqueline Courtney (Alice Matthews Frame), and Virginia Dwyer (Mary Matthews), in 1975.

Lemay co-created Lovers and Friends with Paul Rauch, later retooled and referred to as For Richer, For Poorer. Lemay was also a playwright, whose works have been produced both off-Broadway and on Broadway. He was also a friend and mentor to Douglas Marland, who served as his subwriter on Another World and later became one of daytime's most prolific writers, serving as head writer for Guiding Light, General Hospital and As the World Turns.

Personal life

Lemay was born on March 16, 1922,[2] near the Mohawk Indian reservation in North Bangor, New York, where his mother grew up; he ran away to New York City at age 17. There, he attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.[3] From September 1947 to 1953, he was married to Priscilla Amidon.[2] He married his second wife, Dorothy Shaw on September 19, 1953;[2] she died in 1994.[4] His third wife was Gloria Gardner.[4] Lemay died on May 26, 2018, at the age of 96.[4]

Positions held

Another World

As the World Turns

The Doctors

Guiding Light

Lovers and Friends/For Richer, For Poorer

One Life to Live

Awards and nominations

Daytime Emmy Awards

WINS

NOMINATIONS

HW Tenure

Preceded byRobert Cenedella head writer of Another World August 1971-May 11, 1979 Succeeded byTom King Preceded byAaron Scott & Anne Marie Barlow Head writer of The Doctors (with Stephen Lemay) 1981-1982 Succeeded byElizabeth Levin Preceded by Donna Swajeski (de facto) Head writer of Another World September 12, 1988-November 10, 1988 Succeeded byDonna Swajeski

Works

References

  1. ^ a b Inness, Sherrie A. (2003). Disco divas: women and popular culture in the 1970s. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 122–. ISBN 978-0-8122-1841-1. Retrieved 27 May 2011.
  2. ^ a b c Johnson, Curt, ed. (1995). Who's who in Writers, Editors & Poets, United States & Canada (5th ed.). December Press. ISBN 978-0-913204-30-6.
  3. ^ Kaye, Phyllis Johnson (1981). "Harding Lemay". National Playwrights Directory. Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-9605160-0-1. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  4. ^ a b c "HARDING LEMAY Obituary". New York Times. July 4, 2018. Retrieved 10 November 2021 – via Legacy.com.

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