'Munsters' star Yvonne De Carlo dies
By BOB THOMAS, Associated Press Writer 45 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's slapstick comedy "The Munsters," has died. She was 84.
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De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.
De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."
But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)
she's a memorable femme fatale opp Burt Lancaster in
Criss Cross.
She was "Miss Venice Beach" 1938.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)
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lol, Ken beats me to that one. I wonder if anyone's ever YouTubed Tony telling that story to Letterman.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)
Bad day for people with Carlo in their name. (Carlo Ponti, also RIP.)
RIP YdC
― do i have to draw you a diaphragm (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)
I thought she was dead already?!?!? Wait, that's Morticia Addams, right?
― Wiggy (Wiggy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)
man, she should have gotten some serious fashion royalties starting at least when the bat cave opened in '82.
― Michael J McGonigal (mike mcgonigal), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)
Many years ago Miss De Carlo’s name was linked in an off-screen romance with Howard Hughes, before he turned into a legendary recluse. Asked to reminisce about that chapter in her life by Ladies’ Home Journal in 1972, she said: “Howard taught me how to land a plane and how to take off. But he never taught me anything about flying in between. He thought that I had learned the difficult parts, and that was enough.”
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)