Carla Gray
Clara "Carla" Gray (formerly Benari, Hall and Scott) is a fictional character on the American soap opera One Life to Live. The role was portrayed by Ellen Holly, who was contracted with the serial by creator Agnes Nixon in September 1968, and debuted in the episode first-run October 7, 1968; Holly appeared in the lead role through December 1980. Holly reprised the role in April 1983, reappearing in May of that year; she taped episodes through September 1985, and last appeared onscreen in December 1985.
Carla was one of the original characters created for the show and was featured in a ground-breaking and very controversial storyline about race relations. Carla was a lighter-skinned black American passing as a white. The fact that Holly's Carla was actually black was not revealed to the show's audience until about six months into the show's run. The revelation was a major shock to viewers, and the series was boycotted by several Southern affiliates. Nevertheless, the controversy attracted much attention and ratings shot up for the then-fledgling soap.
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“One thing about living in Santa Carla I never could stomach. All the damn vampires.”
—Jeffrey Boam (b. 1949)
“You can’t build life the way you put blocks together, Toddy.... Did Knox teach you what makes the blood flow? Did he tell you how thoughts come and how they go, and why things are remembered and forgot?... What makes a thought start?... You don’t know and you’ll never know or understand.... Look, look at yourself. Could you be a doctor, a healing man, with the things those eyes have seen? There’s a lot of knowledge in those eyes, but no understanding.”
—Philip MacDonald, and Robert Wise. Gray (Boris Karloff)