Gloria Monty (August 12, 1921 – March 30, 2006) was an American television producer working primarily in the field of daytime drama.
Born Gloria Montemuro 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.
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.
After directing shows such as The First Hundred Years, The Secret Storm (for many years), and Bright Promise, she is best known for taking over the ailing ABC Daytime serial General Hospital in 1978 as Executive Producer. 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.
Claire Monet I heard someone say
It's been so long since the last time I heard her name
I learned a lot from her
Yeah she was singular
The one day she got married
That's the last we saw of her
I can't remember her face at all
And I don't know why but Claire Monet I miss you
Claire Monet went away
I don't know how she could give up that lovely name
She was so slick and I fell sick
When I think about her playing house and raising kids
I'd rather think of her the way she was
Maybe that's why Claire Monet I miss you
The funny part of it all
Is I didn't know her at all
Claire Monet had lots to say
And I just can't imagine her all old and gray
She didn't need a man
Maybe it was her plan
But if she couldn't go on being Claire Monet who can?
I get the feeling she just withered away