Valiant Lady

TV Series
1953–1957
15m

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Helen Emerson was daytime's "valiant lady", a fortyish matron who was widowed in the serial's first year. Helen valiantly endured sudden financial hardship while alternately fretting over he... Read allHelen Emerson was daytime's "valiant lady", a fortyish matron who was widowed in the serial's first year. Helen valiantly endured sudden financial hardship while alternately fretting over her children's sordid love lives. Son Mickey fell for a divorcee, daughter Diane ran off wit... Read allHelen Emerson was daytime's "valiant lady", a fortyish matron who was widowed in the serial's first year. Helen valiantly endured sudden financial hardship while alternately fretting over her children's sordid love lives. Son Mickey fell for a divorcee, daughter Diane ran off with a married man, and bratty baby Kim constantly implored Helen to teach her the latest dan... Read all

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Katherine Anderson

Margot Finchley

• 1953–1957

Andrew Duggan

Lt. Maxwell

• 1953–1957

Helen Wagner

Trudy (1953-1954)…

• 1953–1957

Ann Thomas

Fran

• 1953–1957

Abby Lewis

• 1953–1957

Edith Wood

Nurse

• 1953–1957

Flora Campbell

Helen Emerson #2 (1954-1957)…

• 1953–1957

James Kirkwood Jr.

Mickey Emerson (1953-1957)…

• 1953–1957

Jerome Cowan

Frank Emerson (1953-1957)

• 1953–1957

Nancy Coleman

Helen Emerson #1 (1953-1954) (original cast)…

• 1953–1957

Larry Weber

Capt. Chris Kendall (1954-1955)…

• 1953–1955

Bonnie Sawyer

Kim Emerson #2 (1954-1957)…

• 1954–1955

Joan Lorring

Bonnie Withers #1 (1954-1955)

• 1954–1955

Earl Hammond

Hal Soames (1954-1955)

• 1954–1955

Dolores Sutton

Diane Emerson Soames #2 (1954-1955)

• 1954–1955

Sue Randall

Diane Emerson Soames #3 (1955-1956)

• 1955–1956

Katherine Squire

Gertrude Harper (1956-1957)

• 1956–1957

Doro Merande

Ivy Harper (1956-1957)

• 1956–1957

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Typical Early Soap Opera

Valiant Lady was a soap opera that premiered on CBS on October 12, 1953, and ran to August 16, 1957. Like most of the soap operas of the day, each episode was only fifteen minutes in length and aired live.

As is common for soap operas, Valiant Lady's storylines dealt with scandalous topics. At least they were scandalous for those times: children being born out of wedlock; women dating married men; a young man falling in love with a divorced woman; a teenaged girl learning to perform "unseemly" dances.

The show aired more than 1,000 episodes, but it was never terribly popular. Sponsored by General Mills and other companies, it aired daily at noon and preceded the soap opera, Love of Life. Love of Life was much more popular, airing 7,315 episodes until its cancellation in 1980.

Valiant Lady was a rather typical soap opera and its demise wasn't due to its storylines. It suffered from being the leadoff soap opera on CBS, and it went up against stiff competition from first the Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, and then later by the very popular game show, Tic Tac Dough.

In short, there was nothing memorable about this show.