Gloria Monty (August 12, 1921 - March 30, 2006) was an American TV producer working primarily in the field of daytime drama.
Born Gloria Montemuro, she attended the University of Iowa, New York University, and Columbia University, where she earned her master's degree in drama.
In 1952, she married writer and editor Robert O'Byrne, with whom she had founded a New York theater group, Abbe Theater School. With O'Byrne, Monty directed summer stock pr...
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Gloria Monty (August 12, 1921 - March 30, 2006) was an American TV producer working primarily in the field of daytime drama.
Born Gloria Montemuro, she attended the University of Iowa, New York University, and Columbia University, where she earned her master's degree in drama.
In 1952, she married writer and editor Robert O'Byrne, with whom she had founded a New York theater group, Abbe Theater School. With O'Byrne, Monty directed summer stock productions and led acting and speech workshops, where her pupils included Marlon Brando, Bea Arthur and Tony Curtis.
After directing shows such as The First Hundred Years, The Secret Storm (for many years), and Bright Promise, she is best known for taking over the ailing ABC Daytime serial General Hospital in 1978 as Executive Producer. Fred Silverman, the head of ABC, gave Monty thirteen weeks to turn the show around, with cancellation threatened if she did not succeed. It subsequently became the top-rated American daytime drama for a nearly a...
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