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sympathetic to Carla's predicament. If anything, he is even angrier than Sadie at Carla's ruse. However, he does give her one more chance after she breaks up with Jim. Price's mother ruins the relationship as she does not like Carla. Price accepts a job overseas soon afterward and leaves
Llanview at the end of 1970. Carla is able to mend fences with her mother, who stresses that she must be proud of her heritage. Taking her mother's advice to heart, Carla embraces being Black, and changes her surname back to "Gray" while keeping the first name "Carla." (For her part, Sadie would continue to call Carla "Clara", signifying full and proud public recognition of her daughter after previously letting people believe she was dead, and as Carla had embraced her heritage, she would respond to "Clara" from Sadie.)
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398:" the fifth month in which everybody's invested all their energy in learning about these people for these five months, that day, on a Friday — deliberately chosen for Friday — the cameras started following a whole bunch of people during their daily , including Carla and Sadie...And at the end of the day, five minutes before that, Sadie and Carla Benari meet in front of Anna Wolek's door. visiting her neighbor. going there for some other reason. They stand there and they look at each other and Sadie looks at me and says, "Clara!" And I say, "Mama!" Cut to black! Well, everybody got on the phone that week:
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similarly puzzled by Rauch's request to change Holly's voice, Rauch informed Holly that he "couldn't quite put finger" on why he disliked her voice. Holly believed that Rauch's pivot from material infractions to perceived infractions was his way of breaking her spirit, as Holly immediately changed her hairstyle upon her first reprimand, but could not change her voice as she received no constructive feedback with which she could work.
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and is now head of the housekeeping staff at the hospital; my ex-husband on the show is a policeman, and Arthur plays a brilliant heart surgeon...I think we've opened up our viewers' heads a little bit more to the variety that exists in the Black race. And the more that happens, the slower somebody will be — when they're confronted with any given Black person — to jump to conclusions about who and what that person is."
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happened to Holly while working on the program before. Joseph Stuart had given Holly tough critiques toward the end of her first stint playing Carla, but those critiques always occurred privately, behind closed doors. She also intuited that storyline options for the character of Carla promised to her by Arley, like one that would have involved Carla adopting children and raising them as a single mother, would not be going forward.
402:...The world checked in on Monday to get the backstory. The backstory was that she was an actress and she wanted to be a big star and she went to the bright lights of the big city and found out nobody could give a damn, and also it wasn't helpful to be Black, so she started passing for white, and that didn't do too well either, and she ended up on some lousy bus-and-truck tour that had come back to town."
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Quinlan being replaced by Joseph Stuart was agreed upon by many higher-ups in the program's hierarchy, including Agnes Nixon, who considered both producers her protΓ©gΓ©s. Quinlan's successor Stuart was tougher in critiquing Holly's acting than Quinlan had been. This was partly due to Holly's letter to ABC executives, which Stuart knew about and saw as a direct personal attack.
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people think Clara was dead, as opposed to actively living with the shame of a daughter who denied her heritage. Carla herself is mortified to know Sadie already knows the truth — but she's not mortified enough to end her ruse there and then. Although heartbroken after their first encounter in years, Sadie chooses not to reveal her daughter's secret.
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we're dropping you. You're just not worth keeping," and it's always a blow, but when I thought I could stand up and keep straight, I stood up. It took me a moment for me to be sure I wasn't going to fall down. I said, "I see. Thank you!" and I left. I wasn't about to give a sadist an orgasm by begging for my job!
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at the same time that Carla finds her life on the line. This forces them to postpone the wedding as Carla is first nearly killed when her brakes fail while she is driving, and again when she is lured to the jeweler's by a mysterious man who poses as a policeman. Carla meets with the man, who points a
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magazine, "There are enormous stretches in this country where they don't know anything about Black people...Our viewers tend to regard us as neighbors. People at the supermarket, total strangers, will throw their arms around you and treat you as a neighbor...My mother on the show has been a domestic
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it was relevant and because it explained to viewers the sociological motivations for such a denial of heritage and race due to the rejections suffered by the young woman from both the black and white communities. The ultimate tragedy we were presenting was simply another instance of man's cruelty to
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having the highest number of non-white viewers), she faced racist attitudes behind the camera. These included being paid less than white actresses on the program (Holly was initially paid $ 300 per week as outlined in her 1968-69 contract, rising to only $ 325 per week in 1969-70 and $ 350 per week
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for one year. Holly originally had reservations about working on a soap opera, as the bulk of her acting roles up to that point had been in the New York theater scene, but she took the job anyway, believing that her storyline with
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apartment, Carla runs into Sadie. It is abruptly revealed that "Carla Benari" is Clara Gray, who had not died but run away from home at an early age. Sadie was furious to learn that her daughter was pretending to be white, as Sadie knew about Carla's whereabouts prior to her arrival and instead let
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as well. She would play a famous aunt of Carla's who would sing a song to the newlyweds. Hazel Scott wrote the song herself and appeared in the
October 3 and 4 episodes of 1973, in which Carla and Ed were to marry. The marriage ceremony itself was broadcast on October 5, 1973. The wedding was also
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when new executive producer Rauch reprimanded Holly publicly for her choice of hairstyle in front of the crew and other actors, alleging that shoulder-length hair was "unprofessional" for an
Assistant District Attorney. This dressing-down, in front of crew and actors, was something that had never
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in Carla's 1979 wedding storyline; Holly alleged that Slezak thought her participation as matron-of-honor in Carla's wedding was an attempt to "give luster" to the storyline. Holly also alleged that the character of Viki Riley was placed into the storyline in an attempt to endear Viki more to the
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my contract was almost over...7 a.m., this is how sadistic he was. He could have told me this at the end of the day. 7 a.m., he calls me out of makeup, I'm looking like the Bride of
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480:) comes to her rescue. The man after Carla is revealed to be Lester Brock, the brother of Earl Brock, who blamed Ed for the murder of his brother. Ed and Carla make it to the altar in October and, surrounded by friends and family, they are married. Carla and Ed also initiate proceedings to adopt
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Llanview about her true heritage, including Price. Price is not in the least
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was making its debut was to tell stories the other two networks did not. That particular concept — to tell stories other people hadn't told or wouldn't tell — was a hallmark of Agnes Nixon's storytelling. Indeed, when ABC first promoted the series in the trade publication
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almost two years we told the story of a young Negro woman of light pigmentation who passed as white. This sequence was done primarily because it furnished us with an intense, absorbing drama that attracted viewers. But the mail response substantiated our belief that it was absorbing
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549:, played by Anthony Call) to take her back. Even though he acknowledges that he will always love and care for her, he cannot take her back after her marriage to Jack Scott. Feeling the need to start over, Carla leaves Llanview. She returns in 1983 and, after having attended
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magazine's October 1979 issue. Jack, however, was always planned to be a short-term character by Holly's design, and was killed off in 1980. During this time, Carla and her mother Sadie found themselves in supporting roles in the storyline involving heroine
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the story not just with Carla and Sadie, but also characters involved in the storyline, such as Anna Wolek, Jim Craig, Price Trainor, and even peripheral characters such as Karen Martin who served as friend to both Carla and Anna. According to Holly, in
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and had attempted to integrate African American characters and actors into these shows, but with limited success. The most enduring of Nixon's first Black characters was recurring character Peggy Nolan, a legal secretary-turned-attorney on
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were thrilling. After that, it's just a question of being a fireplug that keeps getting pissed on by junkyard dogs." Holly decided to start a theater workshop with the ultimate goal of producing Broadway and Off-Broadway plays with
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African American viewership demographic. In the same interview series, when asked about this specific situation, Slezak briefly complimented Holly's ability as an actress and said that she was "strong-willed" and "intelligent".
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to push the wedding into the fall. In its place the story of Lester Brock attempting to kill Carla on numerous occasions would test Carla and Ed's commitment to each other for a final time before they were to marry.
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when it was revealed that she, too, was Black. Eventually, she settled down with the beloved Llanview PD detective who was played by daytime's first Black Outstanding Lead Actor Emmy winner, Al Freeman Jr."
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characters. Holly posits that, as a result of their primary role in the celebration while newer and perhaps more popular actors were sidelined, ABC fired Jean Arley, the producer who brought her back to
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only to find that in the elapsed time, her dressing room was given away to a white actress; and discriminatory treatment while taking part in a feature and photoshoot on the history of
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in December 1980. In a 2013 interview, Holly said of her decision to leave, "I fled the show because my health was literally going down the tubes. The first two years of
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on August 10, 1969; in the op-ed Holly writes at length about her experiences as a lighter-skinned Black actress as well as her experiences after she was cast on
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for its surface melodrama", and as a result Holly was excited to see the fresh spin Nixon would bring to this age-old tale.
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her a chance to continue publicly as "Carla Benari." The show found itself in another controversy when one ABC affiliate in
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was quickly cast in the role of Carla after Agnes Nixon read her
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A fifteenth anniversary celebration event was held in honor of
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Fictional character in the American soap opera One Life to Live
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Llanview in the Afternoon: An Oral History of One Life to Live
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Llanview in the Afternoon: An Oral History of One Life to Live
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Llanview in the Afternoon: An Oral History of One Life to Live
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that debuted daytime's second Black leading female character,
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1728:"How Black Do You Have To Be?; How Black Do You Have To Be?"
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Ellen Holly as she appeared early in Carla Gray's storyline.
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2296:. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. p. 62.
2232:. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. p. 52.
1545:. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. p. 48.
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was heralded as the serial that would "take daytime out of
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One Life: An Autobiography of an African American Actress.
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Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History
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Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera and US Television History
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s casting department offered her the role of Sadie Gray.
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One Life: An Autobiography of an African American Actress
2093:"Five Things That Happened On October 5 In Soap History"
1677:"Five Things That Happened On October 7 In Soap History"
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from its daytime lineup as a result of this storyline.
2346:. Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
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2032:. Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
1979:. Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
1585:. Johnson Publishing Company – via Google Books.
1317:(1st ed.). Ballantine Books. pp. 158β166.
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character, Peggy Nolan, was created by Agnes Nixon.
651:in April 1968 for her role as Momma in the musical
1181:Holly was eventually fired by Rauch in late 1985:
881:In an editorial published in the industry journal
2342:Company, Johnson Publishing (December 18, 1980).
2028:Company, Johnson Publishing (February 22, 1979).
1440:The One Life to Live 40th Anniversary Trivia Book
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3363:Todd Manning and Marty Saybrooke rape storylines
1975:Company, Johnson Publishing (November 1, 1988).
1939:National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
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1581:Company, Johnson Publishing (October 26, 1979).
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1519:One Life to Live - The History Pages
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1515:"Storyline Evolution: 1968 to 1977"
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870:in December 1967, the upcoming
840:Love Is a Many Splendored Thing
2106:Candace Young; Charlie Mason.
1625:Archive of American Television
1082:Holly became very attached to
958:Ellen Holly's primary role on
602:Archive of American Television
287:. Carla was a lighter-skinned
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2423:"When Soap Gets In Your Eyes"
1838:Smith, Jessie Carney (1992).
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2217:– via www.youtube.com.
2174:– via www.youtube.com.
2141:– via www.youtube.com.
1844:. VNR AG. pp. 256β257.
1841:Notable Black American Women
1827:– via www.youtube.com.
1755:– via www.youtube.com.
1478:– via www.youtube.com.
1423:– via www.youtube.com.
992:Wedding of Ed and Carla Hall
764:Impact on daytime television
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3159:Maxine Levinson (1996β1997)
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1437:Waggett, Gerry (2008).
315:At the series debut of
152:In-universe information
3033:1960sβ1970s characters
2447:Portsmouth Daily Times
1912:Levine, Elana (2020).
1784:Levine, Elana (2020).
1769:Levine, Elana (2020).
1620:"Ellen Holly, Actress"
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2260:Giles, Jeff (2013).
2228:Giles, Jeff (2013).
1935:Television Quarterly
1880:Television Quarterly
1541:Giles, Jeff (2013).
883:Television Quarterly
596:βEllen Holly on the
580:Impact and reception
492:1975β1980, 1983β1985
276:, played by actress
96:Last appearance
19:Soap opera character
3248:Susan Bedsow Horgan
3129:Executive producers
3028:Full character list
3002:Marcie Walsh McBain
2955:Eileen Riley Siegel
2427:The Washington Post
1710:. January 16, 2014.
1143:Tavern on the Green
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3204:Lorraine Broderick
3181:Jennifer Pepperman
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2095:. October 5, 2021.
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1811:The New York Times
1732:The New York Times
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1399:978-0-451-49825-0
1386:(21 March 2017).
1288:on 2 October 2015
1084:One Life to Live'
1005:Watergate scandal
815:The Guiding Light
723:Imitation of Life
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659:One Life to Live'
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3229:Brian Frons
3198:Agnes Nixon
3177:(2003β2012)
3171:(2001β2002)
3169:Gary Tomlin
3165:(1997β2001)
3153:(1991β1994)
3147:(1984β1991)
3066:Senior cast
2997:Brad Vernon
2987:Mark Toland
2972:Talia Sahid
2930:Alex Olanov
2905:John McBain
2830:Hank Gannon
2825:Robert Ford
2820:Oliver Fish
2815:Shaun Evans
2790:TΓ©a Delgado
2765:Cathy Craig
2720:Jared Banks
2715:Roxy Balsom
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2641:Paul Cramer
2603:Karen Wolek
2598:Jenny Wolek
2583:Vince Wolek
2578:Larry Wolek
2530:Victor Lord
2522:Lord family
2506:(1968β2013)
2360:|last=
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1114:Joseph Papp
1024:Hazel Scott
919:Frank Grant
915:Pine Valley
911:Nancy Grant
849:Nancy Hsueh
831:Micki Grant
796:Nancy Hsueh
794:(left) and
792:Micki Grant
733:but merely
731:illuminated
687:Ellen Holly
641:Lord family
617:Eartha Kitt
613:Agnes Nixon
498:Jenny Wolek
482:Joshua West
465:Lord family
442:blue-collar
430:Bert Skelly
278:Ellen Holly
254:Hazel Scott
222:(1979β1980)
216:(1973β1979)
157:Other names
125:Agnes Nixon
54:Ellen Holly
3434:Categories
3336:Storylines
3145:Paul Rauch
3122:Executives
2865:Max Holden
2845:Sadie Gray
2840:Carla Gray
2810:Greg Evans
2780:Marco Dane
2689:Rex Balsom
2588:Anna Wolek
2513:Characters
1662:2008-11-03
1253:References
1246:1568361971
1231:0786863676
1156:Paul Rauch
1077:Daytime TV
1009:preempting
847:, actress
649:Tony Award
647:had won a
620:"white".)
574:Jared Hall
559:Roger Hill
551:law school
517:Jack Scott
506:Tim Siegel
340:Anna Wolek
325:Sadie Gray
306:Storylines
269:soap opera
265:Carla Gray
246:(adoptive)
244:Jared Hall
220:Jack Scott
201:Sadie Gray
177:Occupation
169:Carla Hall
166:Clara Gray
86:Episode 61
80:Episode 61
25:Carla Gray
3358:2000β2013
3353:1990β1999
3348:1980β1989
3343:1968β1979
3200:(creator)
2960:Joe Riley
2855:Josh Hall
2770:Jim Craig
2550:Tony Lord
2545:Tina Lord
2118:She Media
1949:March 19,
1894:March 19,
1688:8 October
1361:A Hot Set
735:exploited
665:the film
633:Tennessee
629:Nashville
600:creator,
474:Joe Riley
463:) at the
311:1968β1974
240:Grandsons
234:Josh Hall
186:Secretary
69:1983β1985
66:1968β1980
33:character
3418:Category
3379:Llanview
3239:Sam Hall
2352:cite web
2074:March 1,
2038:cite web
1985:cite web
1591:cite web
1292:1 August
1197:See also
1189:β
1109:One Life
953:Sam Hall
727:examined
637:One Life
611:creator
570:Llanview
469:Llanfair
467:estate,
300:Southern
60:Duration
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