Betty Corday was a broadway dramatic actress and long-time American television producer

Television producer

The primary role of a television Producer is to allow all aspects of video production, ranging from show idea development and cast hiring to shoot supervision and fact-checking...

. She co-created and executive produced the long running NBC drama "Days of our Lives from 1966 until her death in 1987.

Becoming executive producer after the death of her husband, Ted Corday

Ted Corday

Theodore "Ted" Corday was a producer, director and creator of many American serials.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Corday graduated from the University of Alberta and studied law before moving to the United States in 1934...

 (and being credited as Mrs. Ted Corday), she was the Executive Producer

Executive producer

An executive producer is a producer who is not involved in any technical aspects of the film making or music process, but who is still responsible for the overall production...

 of Days of our Lives from 1966 to 1985. She semi-retired in 1985, turning control over to her son, Ken. She kept the title of executive producer until her death in November 1987. Betty Corday, mother of Ken Corday

Ken Corday

Ken Corday is an American television soap opera producer and music composer. He is the son of the late Ted and Betty Corday...

, had previously been a Broadway

Broadway theatre

Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theatre District centered along Broadway, and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan in New York City...

 stage actress, starring in "one flop after another" before marrying her husband, a former lawyer and a then-recent migrant from Alberta

Alberta

Alberta is a province of Canada. It had an estimated population of 3.7 million in 2010 making it the most populous of Canada's three prairie provinces...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

. They were married from 1942 until his death in 1966.

Radio

Corday had previously produced such radio soaps as Pepper Young's Family

Pepper Young's Family

Pepper Young's Family was one of radio's more popular daytime drama series, with various format and title changes during its long run from 1932 to 1959...

and Young Dr. Malone. In addition to her work on Days of our Lives, Corday was also a Consultant

Creative consultant

Creative consultant is a credit that has - particularly in the past - been given to screenwriters who have “doctored” a movie screenplay. It is often given by producers in lieu of official credit. Those given this credit in the television field work closely with an Executive Producer, Head...

 for The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless

The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...

.