I wonder what the thinking was in making Marie a nun? It certainly limited story possibilities for the character. Unless the long term plan was to have Marie fall in love again and be tempted to leave her order. Which of course happened a decade later when Lanna Saunders was playing Marie.
After her initial stint Marie was only recurring and wasn't on much I think. From the article it seems she agreed to go back from time to time just to keep working. Once she got SFT, that was it for Marie for several years, until Ann Marcus brought her back played by Kate Woodville.
June 20 1970
Marie Has Acquired A New Habit by John Crosby
Hollywood — It was your average, everyday situation: the girl had gone away to Africa as a missionary because she had just learned that the young man she had fallen in love with was really her brother. who had had his war scarred face fixed through plastic surgery, but still retained his amnesia. She was Marie Horton then. Now, less than a year later, she is back, but as Sister Marie, a non denominational nun, in the midst of a Protestant family that has, to this day, not expressed one iota of surprise at the quickly acquired habit.
She’s really Marie Cheatham, an angel faced, blue eyed actress from Oklahoma City and Houston who plays Marie—oops. Sister Marie — on Channel 4 s daytime soap opera. Days of Our Lives. And she thinks the whole situation is rather amusing. “They took bits of various habits and fitted them together to get what went with my face,” she said. “They also told me they didn't want me to be Catholic. Except I'm wearing black and Catholic nuns wear black. The only other nuns are Episcopalian, and they wear blue. ‘‘Anyway, when I came back on the show, there was not a ripple of surprise or amazement from the other members of the character’s family. And my big line now is, ‘I’ll pray for you.’ I came back and immediately began praying for the entire cast.” Marie had been on the series three and a half years when she was written out. She says, “I thought I would never work again.” But it turned out to be a good thing for her. She did a play, ‘‘Right On, Brother,” written by Otis Young, who was in The Outcasts. Her reviews were very good. Then she got into the commercial field. She was the Mona Lisa for a deodorant, Juliet for a vegetable, Jacques Bergerac threw ice down her bosom for a soft drink. She was also a witch, a belly dancer and the tatue of Liberty for the drink. “Commercials are lots of fun if you get one that is more than just a housewife complaining,” she smiles. She’s married to actor-writ er William Arvin. She says her ultimate aim as an actress “is to continue being employed and to find a part that’s good and that I can play. A wellrounded part where I don't have to take my clothes off. Yes. I think I do mind taking my clothes off. I mind a lot. I object to selling flesh just to sell tickets. I am a great admirer of Claudette Colbert and she never had to take her clothes off. Besides, if I did strip, my husband would kill me.”
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