Valente produced more than 70 films and television movies, including A Storm in Summer, which earned her a Daytime Emmy Award in 2001.
[1] She also received an Emmy nomination 1979 as the producer of the Blind Ambition, a television miniseries which starred Martin Sheen and Rip Torn.
[1] She also served as the female Vice President of Screen Gems & Columbia Pictures Television, the first woman to hold that position.
[1] Valente, who was from New York, began her career as a part-time secretary for producer David Susskind at his production company, Talent Associates.
[1] Valente and Smidt had originally met on the set of the 1961 television film, The Power and the Glory, which starred Laurence Olivier, Julie Harris and George C.