Nancy Hughes
Nancy Hughes McClosky was a fictional character from the CBS Daytime soap opera As the World Turns. Portrayed by Helen Wagner for 54 years from the soap's inception in 1956 until 2010, Nancy served as the core family's, and by extension, the town's, matriarch.
Wagner is acknowledged by the Guinness Book of Records as being the longest-running character portrayed by one actor on television. Wagner spoke the very first lines, "good morning dear," on the series debut on April 2, 1956.
Throughout the course of the series, Nancy remained a matriarch figure in the lives of those she cared for. Over the course of the program, Nancy had appeared in some 19,700 scenes and has been described as a straitlaced, proper and unassuming woman who stood for "old-fashioned values".
In 2004, Wagner received her first award for her work on the show in the form of a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Daytime Emmys after 48 years on the soap. Wagner tragically died of cancer on May 1, 2010, and Nancy died onscreen on June 1, 2010 from natural causes. As the World Turns dedicated two episodes to both the character and actress with surrounding characters illustrating different ways of dealing with her death.
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“Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked
And danced all the modern dances;
And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it,
But they knew that it was modern.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)