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Elizabeth Wallace is an American television writer. She was married to Art Wallace.

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Positions held

All My Children

Awards and nominations

Wallace has received multiple Daytime Emmy Award nominations for her work on the soap opera All My Children. She received five nominations between 1982 and 1988 and won two awards in 1985 [1] and 1988. [2]

Her first nomination was shared with a group of individuals, including Agnes Nixon, Wisner Washam, Jack Wood, Mary K. Wells, Clarice Blackburn, Lorraine Broderick, Cynthia Benjamin, and John Saffron.

Her first win included most of the same individuals, with the exception of Benjamin and Saffron, and also included Victor Miller, Art Wallace, Susan Kirshenbaum, Elizabeth Page, and Carlina Della Pietra.

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References

  1. "A LOPSIDED EMMY VICTORY GOES TO CBS". Los Angeles Times. August 2, 1985. Retrieved April 17, 2020.
  2. "Many Repeat Winners in Daytime Emmys". Los Angeles Times. June 30, 1988. Retrieved April 17, 2020.