Helen Gallagher, Tony Award winner Pal Joey ASecond abbreviation No, no, Nanette Before playing Maeve Ryan in all thirteen seasons of the daytime soap Hope Ryan, She died on November 24 at the age of 98.
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Born on July 19, 1926, in New York City, Gallagher was already a singer, dancer, and veteran of several Broadway shows when she was cast as Gladys Bumps in the 1952 Chicago-set musical. Joey pal. Starring opposite Harold Lange and Vivian Seagal, she won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.
She continued to appear in Golden Age Broadway musicals such as Pajama toy, mammy, finian's rainbow and Sweet charityand received a second Tony nomination for Featured Actress for playing Mickey alongside Gwen Verdon and Ruth Busey. She has also performed in revivals of classics such as Guys and dolls and Brigadoon.
In 1970 she was cast as the original Lucille on Broadway No, no, Nanette She won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. The show ran from January 1971 to February 1973 at the 46th Street Theater (now the Richard Rodgers Theater).
She returned to Broadway in the 1972-1973 production of Shakespeare's play Much ado about nothing Before landing her biggest on-screen role.
Gallagher has been cast as the patriarch of an Irish-American family in New York City in the ABC series Hope Ryan, Which first appeared in July 1975. It had Maeve Ryan and her husband Johnny (Bernard Barrow) who owned Ryan's pub opposite the hospital and had five children. They were the cornerstone of the daytime drama that concluded in early 1989, with Gallagher singing “Danny Boy” in the final episode, as she had done several times before on the show.
Helen Gallagher and Bernard Barrow in “Ryan's Hope”
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She won back-to-back Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Daytime Drama Series in 1976 and 1977 and added a third 11 years later. She also received two other nominations in this category in 1979 and 1981.
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Gallagher has guested on episodes of many other daytime dramas including Another world, all my children and One life to live. Her other television credits include Law and order, Cosby secretsSeveral episodes of The Ed Sullivan ShowAnd talk shows including The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Various shows and games.
Gallagher also appeared on the big screen in the 1960s Strangers when we meetalongside Kirk Douglas, Kim Novak, Ernie Kovacs, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau, and later in director James Ivory's film. Roseland (1977) and the Manhattan Collection Neptune's rocking horse (1997).
She was also a long-time faculty member of Herbert Berghoff's studio in Manhattan.
