Portia Faces Life

Portia Faces Life is an American soap opera first broadcast as a radio series from 1940 to 1953, and then on television for a single season in the mid-1950s.

[1] Stations airing the series, according to newspaper advertisements, included WNAC in Boston, WLS in Chicago, KRLD in Dallas, KGW in Portland, Oregon and KFI in Los Angeles.

[3] The title character Portia Blake (Lucille Wall) is an attorney who faced hardships as she fought corruption in the small town of Parkersburg.

[4] A localized version of Portia Faces Life was launched in Australia in 1952 and began transmission from the radio station 3UZ in Melbourne.

Portia Manning also had cameo appearances in Violets are Blue, Clayton Place and Thirty Days Hath September.

For much of the radio series, Portia Blake was portrayed by Lucille Wall (far right), seen here with two unidentified actors.