Kim Manning had spent a few years in Spain in various shows, when she
was elected to be secretary in the famous show "Un dos tres responda
otra vez" (1972). She was in the first team of secretaries that sang
and danced, something she did very well from the first program she
appeared in, "El debut de secretarias" (1983), in the third season of
the show.
With her sympathy and talent, she soon became the most famous secretary
of the team, although she wasn't the accountant secretary at that time.
When that season was finished, almost all the secretaries of her team
left the show, except Gloria Fernandez and her, and she received the
new secretaries in the fourth season with open arms.
She still wasn't the accountant secretary, because of her stranger
accent, but program after program her popularity was being increased
among the Spanish audience. In the fifth season there she was again,
and there she stayed again. The accountant hostess was the same one of
the previous season. Kim started doing all kinds of jobs a secretary
can have, she introduced the contestants, received the host, Mayra,
carried the questions for the contestants, carried the money in the
second part of the show, and of course sang and danced in the third
part. She almost only had left to be the accountant host, but it
wouldn't be in the fifth season.
In the third season the accountant of the third season, Silvia Marsó,
came back and took back her role. Kim already had a record: she was
(and she still is nowadays) the secretary that had stayed in the
program for the highest amount of chapters. When Silvia Marsó left the
program a few days after September, at last Kim had her reward for all
the years of faithfulness to the show: she became the accountant
secretary. It was a little bit difficult for her because of her English
accent, but she did it with joy and happiness, she had earned the
leader role of the team of secretaries after four years of work.
In January 1988 the season was finished and with that her work on "Un
dos tres". When the program returned three years later she wasn't there
anymore. She returned for a special appearance in the 20th anniversary
special in 1992, and that was her last appearance in "Un dos tres".
After that she went on with her career. Her highest success after "Un
dos tres" was in "Manos a la obra".
Unfortunately, after that she hasn't had very much luck in her works.
Her last appearance has been in "London Street", a series that weren't
successful since only three chapters were broadcast. Nowadays she is
the owner of a restaurant, and, still after 16 years, when you tell
someone the word "Un dos tres secretary", one of the first, if not the
first, name that comes to his mind is Kim Manning.
