Carly Manning
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Dr. Carly Manning is a fictional character
that appeared on the television soap opera
Days of our Lives
. Carly has been portrayed by Crystal Chappell
from June 12, 1990 to October 18, 1993. After a sixteen year absence, Chappell reprised the role on October 2, 2009 until September 22, 2011.
. Carly figures Salem will be the perfect place because no one will know her or where to find her. After arriving in Salem, Carly is in shock to run into not one but two people from her past. First, there is Jennifer Horton
with whom she had attended boarding school,and then she runs into Bo Brady
who had intervened in a fight that she and her then-boyfriend, Lawrence Alamain had had numerous years prior. Luckily for Carly, Bo doesn't remember her and the two do not get along. Carly soon lands a job at Salem University Hospital where one of her patients ends up being Bo's son Shawn-Douglas Brady
. Shawn Douglas has gone deaf as a result of an accident at an oil factory. Bo and Carly grow closer as she cares for his son.
Carly discovers that her brother Frankie
is being held captive by Lawrence. Lawrence agrees to release Frankie if Carly hands over her family fortune and Bo. Carly is torn between saving her brother and the man she has begun to have feelings for; Jack is able to find Frankie and Jennifer--who have also been taken and held captive--and frees the two. Carly and Bo continue to grow closer but he is unable to fully commit to her and Carly ends up accepting a marriage proposal to marry Victor Kiriakis
. Bo came to his senses and sends a letter to Carly telling her not to marry Victor and that he loves her. Bo has Emmy Borden deliver the letter but Emmy gave it to Victor, who made up a fake letter to give from Bo, instead telling Carly that she should marry Victor. Carly is never happy during her short marriage to Victor and Victor knew of her feeling for Bo. Victor hatched a plan to fake his death and heads for Mexico where he is followed by Roman
, Marlena
, Bo and Carly. After finding Victor the group heads back to Salem and Carly and Bo begin to plan their wedding though they never followed through.
Carly begins having terrible nightmares about her son, Nicholas Alamain, whom Carly believes died shortly after birth years before. Carly tells Bo everything that happened around the time her son was born. Carly had become pregnant by her then boyfriend James who is really Lawrence Alamain using an assumed identity. When Carly finds out his true identity, she flees without telling him she is pregnant. Carly seeks out the help of Lawrence's aunt, Vivian Alamain. Carly gives birth to her son in France and Vivian has the doctor tell Carly that her son has died. Bo and Carly decide to travel to France to try to talk to that doctor, who admits that her son did not die but had been sold on the black market. It is later discovered that Vivian had adopted and was raising Carly's son as her nephew, whom she names Nicholas.
As Carly is reunited with her son, Lawrence's Aunt Vivian is not happy, and is determined to turn Nicky against Carly. Vivian drains the brake fluid from Carly's car, causing a major accident. Carly survives with the help of Billie Reed.
Since Carly survives the car accident, Vivian decides to frame Carly for her own murder. At Shawn-Douglas Brady's birthday party at the Penthouse Grill, Vivian lures Carly to the balcony. There, she instigates a vicious argument regarding Nicholas. During the argument, Vivian "falls" off the balcony. Her fall is somewhat broken by an awning down below and Vivian goes into a coma. Ironically, it was Carly who saved Vivian's life in the operating room.
After Carly once again defeats Vivian's attempts to destroy her, Vivian decides to frame her for the deaths of her patients. Dressed as a nurse, Vivian sneaks out of her hospital room and injects cleaning fluid in Carly's terminally ill patients. After the second death, suspicion begins to grow against Carly, but no murder charges are considered yet. Vivian decides to spice things up for Carly. She sneaks out of the hospital one night and plants the bottle of cleaning fluid in Carly's house. Later, Bo finds the detergent in Carly's closet and begins to suspect her. Further analysis confirms that the detergent at Carly's matches the one used to kill her patients. Vivian thinks it is time for a grand finale. She has to kill someone "special", not just some terminally ill patient.
While shopping around the hospital, Vivian notices that Caroline Brady is in the hospital to cure a peptic ulcer. She also hears Caroline telling Carly that maybe she and Bo should not get married. Vivian finds her final victim. The Bradys knew of Caroline's reservations regarding Bo and Carly's upcoming marriage; it would cause suspicion on Carly if she suddenly died under her care. In addition, Vivian breaks into Carly's locker in the hospital and forges a few entries in her diary. They specifically say that she is going to get rid of Caroline. In her nurse disguise, Vivian goes to Caroline's room, where Caroline is heavily sedated. Vivian is carrying two syringes: one with detergent and one with a heavy dose of morphine. As she is about to inject detergent into Caroline's serum; Carly walks in on her. There, Vivian confesses to Carly everything she had done. Afterwards, she tries to kill Carly with the cleaning fluid, but Carly knocks the syringe out of her hand. During the struggle, Carly is accidentally injected with the morphine, and goes into a coma.
Bo investigates Caroline's room after Carly was found, and he finds the syringe with the cleaning fluid in it. He also finds her diary, stating that she planned to kill Caroline. Carly is now considered the culprit of the hospital murders. Carly knew the truth, but is still in a coma, unable to expose Vivian's schemes. Vivian is determined to make sure Carly never recovers from her coma. With the help of some Chinese herbs, Vivian "kills" Carly. She injects a serum into her IV that induces a deathlike paralysis. Tom Horton pronounces Carly dead, as she had no pulse, but in actuality, is very much alive. Before they could embalm Carly, Vivian tells everyone that Carly had told her she didn't want to be embalmed if she died. She claims that Carly had been close to nature and wanted it that way. Since Vivian and Carly had been such "good friends," they believe her and do not embalm Carly. Vivian makes funeral arrangements for Carly, placing her body in an open casket. When Bo says good-bye to his dear love, he notices that her body was still warm, but everybody continues to believe that Carly is dead.
Later Carly awakes in her coffin, complete with water, air, radio, and lights. Vivian heckles Carly by radio, but Carly is running out of air. Eventually Vivian tells Laurence, and he releases her. She later wakes thinking it is 1983, her memory affected by the lack of air. She is kept hidden from Bo in the mansion attic.
Carly later leaves the Alamain mansion to get some air and collect her thoughts. While walking around Salem, she runs into Bo. She feels a connection to him but has no memory of her past with him. Shortly after, word gets out in Salem that Carly is alive. Bo, Marlena and Roman show up at the Alamain mansion and demand that Lawrence allow them to see Carly. Lawrence initially claims that their visit would only harm Carly, but the Bradys refuse to leave until they see Carly. As her friend, and a doctor, Marlena talks with Carly but she still has no recollection of her former life.
Shortly after, Carly's memory comes back. She remembers her son and her love for Bo. Lawrence tells Carly that he loves her very much and they could have a happy live together with Nicky. Bo and Carly talk and feel that too much has changed, and they could no longer make their relationship work.
On October 18, 1993, Carly, Lawrence, and Nicky board the Alamain jet and take off to begin a new life in France.
Almost sixteen years later, Carly and Lawrence are seen together in a Moroccan hotel room, where they are arguing. This argument results in Carly stabbing Lawrence in the stomach with a letter opener, his final words being "You'll never find...".
Carly leaves the country and heads to Salem in hopes of getting help from Bo Brady.
When she arrives in Salem, she sees a body floating in the river, which turns out to be Rafe Hernandez. Carly saves Rafe's life, after he nearly drowned, by a stealing antibiotics from Salem Hospital where Maggie Horton briefly saw her. Carly then breaks into Bo and Hope's house to ask for Bo's help. Bo agrees to hide her in his house since the Alamains are looking for her. Soon after, Victor Kiriakis suspects that Carly is back in Salem and reports her to the police. Dr. Manning is arrested briefly, but later is released back into the custody of Bo, based on a suggestion of Justin Kiriakis. Vivian then clears Carly's name in order to get revenge on her. When Carly tried to move into Maggie Horton's house she is asked to leave by Melanie and Mia. Since Mia is embarrassed that she told Carly she had a baby while she was still a stranger and Melanie because Carly accidentally spilled hot coffee on her. She gets a job at the Salem University Hospital, but Justin Kiriakis thinks she is in love with Bo. He tells Daniel not to hire her, but that plan backfires when he learned that Carly and Daniel had met before.
Fictional character
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that appeared on the television soap opera
Soap opera
A soap opera, sometimes called "soap" for short, is an ongoing, episodic work of dramatic fiction presented in serial format on radio or as television programming. The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble,...
Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives
Days of our Lives is a long running daytime soap opera broadcast on the NBC television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in the world, airing nearly every weekday in the United States since November 8, 1965. It has since been syndicated to many countries around...
. Carly has been portrayed by Crystal Chappell
Crystal Chappell
Crystal Chappell is an American actress. She played Carly Manning on Days of our Lives from 1990 to 1993, Maggie Carpenter on One Life to Live from 1995 to 1997 and Olivia Spencer on Guiding Light from 1999 to 2009. On October 2, 2009, she began reprising the role of Carly Manning...
from June 12, 1990 to October 18, 1993. After a sixteen year absence, Chappell reprised the role on October 2, 2009 until September 22, 2011.
Storylines
Carly comes to Salem 1990 while on the run. She gets the idea to come to Salem from the vacationing Adrienne Johnson and Justin KiriakisJustin Kiriakis
Justin Kiriakis is a fictional character on the NBC daytime soap opera Days of our Lives. Created by head writer Leah Laiman, he is portrayed by actor Wally Kurth since February 3, 1987 to February 5, 1991. From 2007–2008, Justin was mentioned but not seen on screen. Kurth reprised the role since...
. Carly figures Salem will be the perfect place because no one will know her or where to find her. After arriving in Salem, Carly is in shock to run into not one but two people from her past. First, there is Jennifer Horton
Jennifer Horton
Jennifer Rose Horton is a fictional character on the NBC daytime drama, Days of our Lives, a long running dramatic serial about working class life in the fictional town of Salem. Jennifer was created by scriptwriter Pat Falken Smith, and executive producer Betty Corday...
with whom she had attended boarding school,and then she runs into Bo Brady
Bo Brady
Beauregard Aurelius "Bo" Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera, Days of our Lives, the youngest of the series' Brady family. Created under head-writer Margaret DePreist, the role was originated by actor Peter Reckell on May 2, 1983. Robert Kelker-Kelly briefly stepped into the role...
who had intervened in a fight that she and her then-boyfriend, Lawrence Alamain had had numerous years prior. Luckily for Carly, Bo doesn't remember her and the two do not get along. Carly soon lands a job at Salem University Hospital where one of her patients ends up being Bo's son Shawn-Douglas Brady
Shawn-Douglas Brady
Shawn-Douglas Brady is a character on the television soap opera Days of our Lives. He is the son of supercouple Bo Brady and Hope Williams, and one half of the supercouple Shawn Brady and Belle Black. Jason Cook is most identifiable in the role, portraying the character from 1999-2006...
. Shawn Douglas has gone deaf as a result of an accident at an oil factory. Bo and Carly grow closer as she cares for his son.
Carly discovers that her brother Frankie
Frankie Brady
Frankie Brady is a character on the American soap opera Days of our Lives.The role of Frankie was played by veteran Emmy-Award winning actor Billy Warlock from July 1986 to October 1988, from November 1990 to July 1991 and from June 26, 2005 to November 24, 2006...
is being held captive by Lawrence. Lawrence agrees to release Frankie if Carly hands over her family fortune and Bo. Carly is torn between saving her brother and the man she has begun to have feelings for; Jack is able to find Frankie and Jennifer--who have also been taken and held captive--and frees the two. Carly and Bo continue to grow closer but he is unable to fully commit to her and Carly ends up accepting a marriage proposal to marry Victor Kiriakis
Victor Kiriakis
Victor Kiriakis I is a fictional character on NBC's Days of our Lives. The role has been portrayed by John Aniston since 1985. His time on the show has been 1985 to 1997, 1998 to present with a brief storyline driven absence in 2004 when his character was "killed off" but found alive on the island...
. Bo came to his senses and sends a letter to Carly telling her not to marry Victor and that he loves her. Bo has Emmy Borden deliver the letter but Emmy gave it to Victor, who made up a fake letter to give from Bo, instead telling Carly that she should marry Victor. Carly is never happy during her short marriage to Victor and Victor knew of her feeling for Bo. Victor hatched a plan to fake his death and heads for Mexico where he is followed by Roman
Roman Brady
Roman Augustus Brady is a fictional character on the television drama Days of our Lives. Roman was played by Wayne Northrop from 1981 to 1984 and 1991 to 1994, and has been played by Josh Taylor since 1997, with a brief hiatus in early 2004, when he was a victim of the show's now-infamous serial...
, Marlena
Marlena Evans
Dr. Marlena Evans Black is a long-running fictional character on the NBC daytime drama, Days of our Lives, a long running serial about working life in the fictional town of Salem. She was played by actress Deidre Hall since 1976, with a few minor breaks in between from 1987 to March 1991 and...
, Bo and Carly. After finding Victor the group heads back to Salem and Carly and Bo begin to plan their wedding though they never followed through.
Carly begins having terrible nightmares about her son, Nicholas Alamain, whom Carly believes died shortly after birth years before. Carly tells Bo everything that happened around the time her son was born. Carly had become pregnant by her then boyfriend James who is really Lawrence Alamain using an assumed identity. When Carly finds out his true identity, she flees without telling him she is pregnant. Carly seeks out the help of Lawrence's aunt, Vivian Alamain. Carly gives birth to her son in France and Vivian has the doctor tell Carly that her son has died. Bo and Carly decide to travel to France to try to talk to that doctor, who admits that her son did not die but had been sold on the black market. It is later discovered that Vivian had adopted and was raising Carly's son as her nephew, whom she names Nicholas.
As Carly is reunited with her son, Lawrence's Aunt Vivian is not happy, and is determined to turn Nicky against Carly. Vivian drains the brake fluid from Carly's car, causing a major accident. Carly survives with the help of Billie Reed.
Since Carly survives the car accident, Vivian decides to frame Carly for her own murder. At Shawn-Douglas Brady's birthday party at the Penthouse Grill, Vivian lures Carly to the balcony. There, she instigates a vicious argument regarding Nicholas. During the argument, Vivian "falls" off the balcony. Her fall is somewhat broken by an awning down below and Vivian goes into a coma. Ironically, it was Carly who saved Vivian's life in the operating room.
After Carly once again defeats Vivian's attempts to destroy her, Vivian decides to frame her for the deaths of her patients. Dressed as a nurse, Vivian sneaks out of her hospital room and injects cleaning fluid in Carly's terminally ill patients. After the second death, suspicion begins to grow against Carly, but no murder charges are considered yet. Vivian decides to spice things up for Carly. She sneaks out of the hospital one night and plants the bottle of cleaning fluid in Carly's house. Later, Bo finds the detergent in Carly's closet and begins to suspect her. Further analysis confirms that the detergent at Carly's matches the one used to kill her patients. Vivian thinks it is time for a grand finale. She has to kill someone "special", not just some terminally ill patient.
While shopping around the hospital, Vivian notices that Caroline Brady is in the hospital to cure a peptic ulcer. She also hears Caroline telling Carly that maybe she and Bo should not get married. Vivian finds her final victim. The Bradys knew of Caroline's reservations regarding Bo and Carly's upcoming marriage; it would cause suspicion on Carly if she suddenly died under her care. In addition, Vivian breaks into Carly's locker in the hospital and forges a few entries in her diary. They specifically say that she is going to get rid of Caroline. In her nurse disguise, Vivian goes to Caroline's room, where Caroline is heavily sedated. Vivian is carrying two syringes: one with detergent and one with a heavy dose of morphine. As she is about to inject detergent into Caroline's serum; Carly walks in on her. There, Vivian confesses to Carly everything she had done. Afterwards, she tries to kill Carly with the cleaning fluid, but Carly knocks the syringe out of her hand. During the struggle, Carly is accidentally injected with the morphine, and goes into a coma.
Bo investigates Caroline's room after Carly was found, and he finds the syringe with the cleaning fluid in it. He also finds her diary, stating that she planned to kill Caroline. Carly is now considered the culprit of the hospital murders. Carly knew the truth, but is still in a coma, unable to expose Vivian's schemes. Vivian is determined to make sure Carly never recovers from her coma. With the help of some Chinese herbs, Vivian "kills" Carly. She injects a serum into her IV that induces a deathlike paralysis. Tom Horton pronounces Carly dead, as she had no pulse, but in actuality, is very much alive. Before they could embalm Carly, Vivian tells everyone that Carly had told her she didn't want to be embalmed if she died. She claims that Carly had been close to nature and wanted it that way. Since Vivian and Carly had been such "good friends," they believe her and do not embalm Carly. Vivian makes funeral arrangements for Carly, placing her body in an open casket. When Bo says good-bye to his dear love, he notices that her body was still warm, but everybody continues to believe that Carly is dead.
Later Carly awakes in her coffin, complete with water, air, radio, and lights. Vivian heckles Carly by radio, but Carly is running out of air. Eventually Vivian tells Laurence, and he releases her. She later wakes thinking it is 1983, her memory affected by the lack of air. She is kept hidden from Bo in the mansion attic.
Carly later leaves the Alamain mansion to get some air and collect her thoughts. While walking around Salem, she runs into Bo. She feels a connection to him but has no memory of her past with him. Shortly after, word gets out in Salem that Carly is alive. Bo, Marlena and Roman show up at the Alamain mansion and demand that Lawrence allow them to see Carly. Lawrence initially claims that their visit would only harm Carly, but the Bradys refuse to leave until they see Carly. As her friend, and a doctor, Marlena talks with Carly but she still has no recollection of her former life.
Shortly after, Carly's memory comes back. She remembers her son and her love for Bo. Lawrence tells Carly that he loves her very much and they could have a happy live together with Nicky. Bo and Carly talk and feel that too much has changed, and they could no longer make their relationship work.
On October 18, 1993, Carly, Lawrence, and Nicky board the Alamain jet and take off to begin a new life in France.
Almost sixteen years later, Carly and Lawrence are seen together in a Moroccan hotel room, where they are arguing. This argument results in Carly stabbing Lawrence in the stomach with a letter opener, his final words being "You'll never find...".
Carly leaves the country and heads to Salem in hopes of getting help from Bo Brady.
When she arrives in Salem, she sees a body floating in the river, which turns out to be Rafe Hernandez. Carly saves Rafe's life, after he nearly drowned, by a stealing antibiotics from Salem Hospital where Maggie Horton briefly saw her. Carly then breaks into Bo and Hope's house to ask for Bo's help. Bo agrees to hide her in his house since the Alamains are looking for her. Soon after, Victor Kiriakis suspects that Carly is back in Salem and reports her to the police. Dr. Manning is arrested briefly, but later is released back into the custody of Bo, based on a suggestion of Justin Kiriakis. Vivian then clears Carly's name in order to get revenge on her. When Carly tried to move into Maggie Horton's house she is asked to leave by Melanie and Mia. Since Mia is embarrassed that she told Carly she had a baby while she was still a stranger and Melanie because Carly accidentally spilled hot coffee on her. She gets a job at the Salem University Hospital, but Justin Kiriakis thinks she is in love with Bo. He tells Daniel not to hire her, but that plan backfires when he learned that Carly and Daniel had met before.
External links
- Days of Our Lives - Carly Manning
- http://www.etonline.com/news/2009/11/80418/index.html
- Carly Manning / Katerina Von Leuschner @ soapcentral.com