Barbara Walters conducted interviews with the most prominent figures across politics and entertainment, including Katharine Hepburn, Monica Lewinsky, Jimmy Carter, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin.
Walters received multiple Daytime Emmy nominations for best talk show host for her work on “The View,” winning in 2003 and 2009, and she also received multiple Primetime Emmy nominations for her specials, winning in 1983. She also won a Daytime Emmy in 1975 for “Today” and shared a News and Documentary Emmy for her work at ABC on coverage of the turn of the millennium.
The oft-cited examples were asking Hepburn what kind of tree she would be and closing an interview with President-elect Jimmy Carter with the counsel, “Be kind to us, be wise with us.” The former incident didn’t take place quite as legend would have it: In Walters’ 1981 interview of the movie star, Hepburn described herself as feeling like a very strong “tree” in her old age.
After Walters’ early work at New York area TV stations, CBS came calling for its morning show, where her duties included booking and being a gofer. She made her first on-air appearance at the station in a fashion segment she had produced and also grabbed an exclusive interview in 1956 with survivors of the Andrea Doria ship sinking. She left CBS after two years and worked for a time in public relations for Tex McCrary’s TV department. In 1961, she landed a writing position on “Today” at NBC.
In 1976, ABC lured her away with an unprecedented $1 million contract that included co-hosting the evening news with Reasoner and other specials and assignments. Walters was mercilessly pounded by the media for this high-water mark and withstood Reasoner’s contempt before segueing into journalistic interviews, specials and, eventually, the highly rated “20/20,” which first went on the air in 1981.
In 1997, Walters co-created daytime ABC talkshow “The View,” which she co-hosted with women including Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O’Donnell and Meredith Vieira over the years.described the show as having “shook up the conventions of femme-focused yakkers with its blend of politics, entertainment and opinion.” She exited “20/20” in 2004.
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