GENERAL HOSPITAL PRODUCER GLORIA MONTY ITALIAN FAMILY PHOTOS MONTEMURO DOCS +WWI

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[PHOTO ALBUMS, ITALIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE, GENERAL HOSPITAL]<br>Offered here is<br>THE ORIGINAL FAMILY ALBUM OF<br>GENERAL HOSPITAL EXECUTIVE PRODUCER GLORIA MONTY<br>.<br>(Born Gloria Montemuro).<br>Monty is best known as the long time Executive Producer of iconic daytime soap opera<br>'General Hospital'<br>which she saved from the ash heap in 1978 and ran successfully until stepping down in 1987.<br>This album / scrapbook (of sorts) consists of her entire family history in America beginning with her earliest ancestors immigrating from Italy in the late 19th century, until well into the the late 20th century. The album has 21 leaves of photos mounted mostly on both sides with photos ranging from 19th c cabinet cards to early albumen & gelatin photos. We counted 194 individual photos the majority of which are prior to 1945 or so. Most seem 20's - 30's. Based on the level of knowledge, it would appear that either Gloria or her sister assembled this album themselves.<br>An important and nicely documented Italian family history from an esteemed woman producer of one of the iconic TV programs of all time. Certainly of interest to anyone sharing the Italian family name(s) or anyone who's a fan of General Hospital and desires a closer connection to Monty and her earliest roots in America.<br>In addition to the fine early photos, there are documents:<br>- Copy of a deed to a house in NJ belonging to Joseph & Concetta Montemuro<br>- Joseph Montemurro's original<br>'Certificate of Naturalization'<br>from 1915<br>- Joseph Montemurro's original double sided<br>'Enlistment Record'<br>into the US Army in 1918 (and<br>Honorable Discharge<br>in 1919)<br>- Concatha Mango's (Joseph's wife; Gloria's mother) birth certificate.<br>- blue line copy of the property survey of their Allenhurst, NJ home dated 1953 (from a survey done in 1925)<br>- An original Italian birth certificate for ??? from 1919 from a city Valsinni ??.<br>The family names mentioned or annotated by the photos and documents are :<br>Montemurro (or Montemuro)<br>Lentini<br>Tortorelli<br>Calabrese<br>Mango<br>Tartarello<br>__________________<br>Gloria Monty (August 12, 1921 – March 30, 2006)<br>was an American television producer working primarily in the field of daytime drama.<br>Born<br>Gloria Montemuro<br>in Allenhurst, New Jersey, she attended the University of Iowa, New York University, and Columbia University, where she earned her master's degree in drama.<br>Theatre work<br>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 at The New School in New York City, where her pupils included Marlon Brando, Demi Moore and Tony Curtis<br>After directing shows such as The First Hundred Years, The Secret Storm (for many years), and Bright Promise,<br>she is best known for taking over the ailing<br>ABC Daytime serial General Hospital in 1978 as Executive Producer<br>. 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 and won several Daytime Emmy Awards.<br>To accomplish this turnaround, she increased the show's pace, and focused main storylines on younger characters to reach out to younger viewers, particularly the pairing of ingenue Laura Spencer (Genie Francis) and troubled criminal Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary, whom she knew from his stint on her previous series, Bright Promise). She gave the sets a more contemporary look and feel, and employed production techniques once used only in primetime. One major result of the "Monty Revolution" was the faster pace of the show, effectively doubling the number of scenes in each episode. She was known for her rigid work ethic and for being tough with the cast and crew. “She demand[ed] excellence, but she reward[ed] it,” said coordinating producer Jerry Balme.<br>Monty was accused of perpetuating dangerous misconceptions about rape, implicitly exalting violence against women. But Monty viewed the “rape” as a choreographed