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The Early Years
We first meet Maggie Simmons in 1974 when an amnesiac named Marty Hansen shows up on her farm. Crippled as the result of a childhood car accident that took her parents lives, she can use help on the farm, so she takes Marty in and he becomes a farmhand. They grow closer, fall in love, and get married in one of the sweetest love stories in Days history. Mickey’s nickname for Maggie is “Red” because of her red hair.
Even though she can’t walk, Maggie has always dreamed of being a dancer fantasized about wearing a pair of red high-heeled shoes while doing so. Marty reads about a surgical procedure being performed at Salem University Hospital and Maggie makes an appointment.
While there she stumbles upon Marty’s real identity when she sees a photograph of Mickey Horton in Dr. Bill Horton’s office. It turns out Mickey suffered a stroke, losing his memory after learning that Michael Horton, the teenager he thought was his son, had raised since birth, was really his brother Bill’s son. Bill and Mickey’s wife Laura had been in love before Mickey embarked on a relationship with Laura.
Ultimately, Mickey finds out the truth. He and Laura divorce, Maggie has the surgery, is able to walk, and Mickey and Maggie get married for real. While recovering from surgery, Mickey brings Maggie a pair of red dancing shoes that are used on several occasions over the years as a reminder of Mickey and Maggie’s early relationship. They dance together many times throughout the years, with Maggie wearing those red shoes.
Maggie’s Children
When it’s discovered Mickey is sterile and can’t have children, he and Maggie adopt a little girl named Janice Barnes. When Janice’s natural mother finds her and takes her back, Maggie turns to drink and becomes an alcoholic.
Several years later, Maggie agrees to become a surrogate mother for an anonymous donor. The doctor doing the insemination is Salem’s own Dr. Neil Curtis. Through a turn of events, Mickey and Maggie end up keeping the baby, whose name is now Sarah Horton. Around the same time, Mickey and Maggie got custody of Melissa Anderson, daughter of Mickey’s former secretary Linda Patterson.
During an investigation into the death of Sarah’s surrogate father, Mickey’s law partner Don Craig fell in love with Maggie, and she admits her love for him. Unfortunately, Mickey overhears this, has a heart attack. Mickey survives, but he and Maggie end up getting a divorce.
Maggie soon regrets divorcing Mickey, the two reconcile and remarry in a double wedding ceremony with daughter Melissa and Pete Jannings.
Down the road, Maggie starts feeling neglected when Mickey focuses all his energy on his practice. She turns to Dr. Neil Curtis, and they embark on an affair, and Neil admits that he is really Sarah Horton’s father. Ultimately, Mickey and Maggie get back together and Neil leaves Salem.
Businesswoman Extraordinaire
Maggie and her motherinlaw Alice Horton go into business together, convert Wings into Alice’s Restaurant. From there, the duo work with Billie Reed for the Countess Wilhelmina cosmetics company. Some years later, Maggie opens a restaurant called Tuscany. When she is thought to be dead, it was converted into a bar, but after she returns to Salem alive, Mickey buys Chez Rouge for Maggie to run. Chez Rouge (from the French for Red’s House) would become one of Salem’s poshest restaurants and the site for numerous important events.
2000 and Beyond
In 2003, Maggie becomes a victim of The Salem Stalker, is killed off, but Turns out she is really alive and is one of many victims being held on the island of Melaswen. During Maggie’s death, Mickey is roped in by Bonnie Lockhart, Mimi’s mother, who is only interested in Mickey’s money.
Once Maggie returns, she is stunned that Mickey married flashy Bonnie of all people, and that he doesn’t immediately leave Bonnie. This storyline leads into a new courtship period for Mickey and Maggie and viewers are treated to another reunion for one of Salem’s original supercouples.
At long last, the Hortons settle into a comfortable life together. Mickey continues to work hard at his law practice, while Maggie runs Chez Rouge by night. By day, her home opens up to nephew Nick Fallon, new Salemites Melanie Layton and Mia McCormack, and grandson Nathan Horton.
As an AA sponsor to her nephew Lucas, she incurs his wrath when trying to protect him from the knowledge that his wife, Chloe, was cheating on him with Dr. Daniel Jonas.
In early 2010, just as Maggie and Mickey are about to enjoy a long-awaited cruise together, Maggie finds her beloved husband dead in their bedroom. As Maggie grieves for her beloved Mickey, she tries to put on a brave face for others. Lucas and Maggie reconcile their differences as he helps Maggie during her time of mourning.
The stress leads to a recurrence of myasthenia gravis, a disease she had been diagnosed with years before, and which had gone into remission. Because Melanie and Maggie bonded, having a loving mother/daughter relationship.... when Melanie gets married, she and her new husband Philip Kiriakis agree to live with Maggie to help her out.
Philip's residency at Maggie's becomes an excuse for his father, Victor Kiriakis, to visit frequently. He has taken a shine to the beautiful widow, and although she is attracted to him too, she resists his advances not only because Victor is married,( though a marriage in name only) but because she is not ready yet to let go of her Mickey .
Maggie and Victor’s friendship sparks jealousy in Victor’s wife, Vivian Alamain Kiriakis, and getting on Vivian’s bad side is never a good idea. Notorious Vivian hatches a plot to bury Maggie alive in a sarcophagus purportedly intended for Victor’s daughter Isabella. Vivian’s plot to bury Maggie is thwarted by Victor’s grandson Brady.
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Maggie Horton has been played by Suzanne Rogers since the beginning, and currently she is the longest running character on the show.
kpatch
November 2010
We first meet Maggie Simmons in 1974 when an amnesiac named Marty Hansen shows up on her farm. Crippled as the result of a childhood car accident that took her parents lives, she can use help on the farm, so she takes Marty in and he becomes a farmhand. They grow closer, fall in love, and get married in one of the sweetest love stories in Days history. Mickey’s nickname for Maggie is “Red” because of her red hair.
Even though she can’t walk, Maggie has always dreamed of being a dancer fantasized about wearing a pair of red high-heeled shoes while doing so. Marty reads about a surgical procedure being performed at Salem University Hospital and Maggie makes an appointment.
While there she stumbles upon Marty’s real identity when she sees a photograph of Mickey Horton in Dr. Bill Horton’s office. It turns out Mickey suffered a stroke, losing his memory after learning that Michael Horton, the teenager he thought was his son, had raised since birth, was really his brother Bill’s son. Bill and Mickey’s wife Laura had been in love before Mickey embarked on a relationship with Laura.
Ultimately, Mickey finds out the truth. He and Laura divorce, Maggie has the surgery, is able to walk, and Mickey and Maggie get married for real. While recovering from surgery, Mickey brings Maggie a pair of red dancing shoes that are used on several occasions over the years as a reminder of Mickey and Maggie’s early relationship. They dance together many times throughout the years, with Maggie wearing those red shoes.
Maggie’s Children
When it’s discovered Mickey is sterile and can’t have children, he and Maggie adopt a little girl named Janice Barnes. When Janice’s natural mother finds her and takes her back, Maggie turns to drink and becomes an alcoholic.
Several years later, Maggie agrees to become a surrogate mother for an anonymous donor. The doctor doing the insemination is Salem’s own Dr. Neil Curtis. Through a turn of events, Mickey and Maggie end up keeping the baby, whose name is now Sarah Horton. Around the same time, Mickey and Maggie got custody of Melissa Anderson, daughter of Mickey’s former secretary Linda Patterson.
During an investigation into the death of Sarah’s surrogate father, Mickey’s law partner Don Craig fell in love with Maggie, and she admits her love for him. Unfortunately, Mickey overhears this, has a heart attack. Mickey survives, but he and Maggie end up getting a divorce.
Maggie soon regrets divorcing Mickey, the two reconcile and remarry in a double wedding ceremony with daughter Melissa and Pete Jannings.
Down the road, Maggie starts feeling neglected when Mickey focuses all his energy on his practice. She turns to Dr. Neil Curtis, and they embark on an affair, and Neil admits that he is really Sarah Horton’s father. Ultimately, Mickey and Maggie get back together and Neil leaves Salem.
Businesswoman Extraordinaire
Maggie and her motherinlaw Alice Horton go into business together, convert Wings into Alice’s Restaurant. From there, the duo work with Billie Reed for the Countess Wilhelmina cosmetics company. Some years later, Maggie opens a restaurant called Tuscany. When she is thought to be dead, it was converted into a bar, but after she returns to Salem alive, Mickey buys Chez Rouge for Maggie to run. Chez Rouge (from the French for Red’s House) would become one of Salem’s poshest restaurants and the site for numerous important events.
2000 and Beyond
In 2003, Maggie becomes a victim of The Salem Stalker, is killed off, but Turns out she is really alive and is one of many victims being held on the island of Melaswen. During Maggie’s death, Mickey is roped in by Bonnie Lockhart, Mimi’s mother, who is only interested in Mickey’s money.
Once Maggie returns, she is stunned that Mickey married flashy Bonnie of all people, and that he doesn’t immediately leave Bonnie. This storyline leads into a new courtship period for Mickey and Maggie and viewers are treated to another reunion for one of Salem’s original supercouples.
At long last, the Hortons settle into a comfortable life together. Mickey continues to work hard at his law practice, while Maggie runs Chez Rouge by night. By day, her home opens up to nephew Nick Fallon, new Salemites Melanie Layton and Mia McCormack, and grandson Nathan Horton.
As an AA sponsor to her nephew Lucas, she incurs his wrath when trying to protect him from the knowledge that his wife, Chloe, was cheating on him with Dr. Daniel Jonas.
In early 2010, just as Maggie and Mickey are about to enjoy a long-awaited cruise together, Maggie finds her beloved husband dead in their bedroom. As Maggie grieves for her beloved Mickey, she tries to put on a brave face for others. Lucas and Maggie reconcile their differences as he helps Maggie during her time of mourning.
The stress leads to a recurrence of myasthenia gravis, a disease she had been diagnosed with years before, and which had gone into remission. Because Melanie and Maggie bonded, having a loving mother/daughter relationship.... when Melanie gets married, she and her new husband Philip Kiriakis agree to live with Maggie to help her out.
Philip's residency at Maggie's becomes an excuse for his father, Victor Kiriakis, to visit frequently. He has taken a shine to the beautiful widow, and although she is attracted to him too, she resists his advances not only because Victor is married,( though a marriage in name only) but because she is not ready yet to let go of her Mickey .
Maggie and Victor’s friendship sparks jealousy in Victor’s wife, Vivian Alamain Kiriakis, and getting on Vivian’s bad side is never a good idea. Notorious Vivian hatches a plot to bury Maggie alive in a sarcophagus purportedly intended for Victor’s daughter Isabella. Vivian’s plot to bury Maggie is thwarted by Victor’s grandson Brady.
*******************************
Maggie Horton has been played by Suzanne Rogers since the beginning, and currently she is the longest running character on the show.
kpatch
November 2010