The+Soap+Operas

// **Myrt and Marge** // (1931-1946) media type="file" key="Myrt n Marge.mp3" width="240" height="20" Originally aired at nighttime and moved to daytime, //Myrt and Marge// focused on the lives of a mother and daughter. The program followed these chorus girls’ adventures with bootleggers and gangsters. It also featured the mother-daughter relationship as Marge matured and got married.

// **The Romance of Helen Trent** // (1933-1960) media type="file" key="The Romance of Helen Trent.mp3" width="240" height="20" Created by the Hummerts, this program told the adventures of Helen Trent “who sets out to prove to herself what so many women long to prove in their own lives: that because a woman is thirty-five or more, romance in life need not be over, that the romance of life can extend into middle life, and even beyond.”

// **Ma Perkins** // (1935-1956) media type="file" key="Ma Perkins.mp3" Again created by the Hummert team, this program told the story of Map Perkins, a widow who ran her dead husbands lumberyard and supervised a large and unruly family.

// **Mary Noble, Backstage Wife** // (1935-1959) media type="file" key="Mary Noble, Backstage Wife.mp3" width="240" height="20" The story centered around the life of Mary a small town girl who moved to New York City and married Larry Noble a prominent actor and “matinee idol.” Jealousy often nagged at Mary and her trust and love for her husband was tested nearly everyday.

// **Young Widder Brown** // (1938-1956) media type="file" key="Young Widder Brown.mp3" width="240" height="20" // Young Widder Brown // told the story of Ellen, a 30 year-old widow, struggling to raise her children and manage a tea room in the small town of Simpsonville.


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