Marie Horton is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera, Days of Our Lives.
Created and introduced by serial creator Ted Corday, actress Maree Cheatham is most-recognized in the role, originating it on the debut episode that first aired November 8, 1965.
Discussing her return, Cheatham told TV Insider: "It's such an honor to be called back for this very auspicious and emotional [occasion].
Marie grows depressed and attempts suicide, but Tony's father Craig consoles her.
[2] Her miscarriage even makes her doubt her belief in God, but she eventually resumes attending church regularly.
[6] Craig then finds out why Tony dumped Marie: he had been diagnosed with a rare blood disease and did not want her to watch him die.
[7] But Tom and Alice notice striking similarities between Dr. Brooks and their dead son, Tommy.
Marie's brother Mickey and Tom investigate and find proof that Dr. Brooks is Tommy.
Tommy was a POW in the Korean War and presumed dead, but he saved a Soviet soldier's life and has been given a reconstructed face in return.
Marie leaves Salem to become a medical missionary in Africa but returns when her brother Bill kills Tommy's ex-wife Kitty.
She eventually moves to New York, where she becomes involved with Alex Marshall and his brother Haley.
Jessica gets a position as a student nurse at Salem University Hospital, with Alex as her sponsor.
When Jessica's cousin Hope discovers the condition, she informs Marie, who promptly flies to LA to stop Jessica from marrying Jake Kositchek, who turns out to be the local serial killer, the Salem Strangler.
[2] Marie returns home to visit in June 1994 for her father's funeral; in 1996 for her niece Hope's wedding;[2] offscreen in January 2010 for her brother Mickey's funeral; and in June 2010 when she hears that her mother Alice is extremely ill. Marie reminisces with her niece Julie and Mickey's widow Maggie about the wonderful times she shared with Alice.
[9] On August 31, 2012, Marie writes a letter to the Parole Board for her grandson, Nick Fallon.