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Uncle Wally 's Obits.... R.I.P. Yvonne de Carlo { born Margaret Yvonne Middleton, September 1, 1922 -- January 8, 2007, aged 84 } |
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Yvonne De Carlo
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Yvonne De Carlo
Yvonne De Carlo, circa 1979
Birth name Margaret Yvonne Middleton
Born September 1, 1922
Vancouver, British Columbia
Died January 8, 2007 aged 84
Woodland Hills, California
Height 5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
Years active 1941 =E2=80=93 2003
Spouse(s) Bob Morgan (1955-1968)
Divorced
Official site None
Notable roles =E1=B9=A2ipp=C3=B4r=C4=81h in
The Ten Commandments
Lily Munster in
The Munsters (TV)
Yvonne De Carlo (born Margaret Yvonne Middleton) (September 1, 1922 -
January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American film and television
actress, best known for her role as "Lily Munster" on the 1964-1966 CBS
television series The Munsters.
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
1=2E1 Early life
1=2E2 Film career
1=2E3 The Munsters
1=2E4 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
1=2E5 Other entertainment activities
1=2E6 Personal life
1=2E7 Last career appearance and later life
2 Filmography
3 TV work
4 Book
5 Footnotes
6 External links
[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life
The daughter of an ambitious but unsuccessful aspiring actress,
Margaret (nicknamed Peggy) Yvonne Middleton was born in Vancouver,
British Columbia, and was taken to Hollywood at the age of fifteen by
her mother. She was "Miss Venice Beach" 1938. Unable to find work, they
returned to Canada until 1940, when they once again traveled to
Hollywood. De Carlo supported herself working in a chorus while trying
to find film work. She made her first film appearance in 1941, but
could only find bit parts for the next few years.
She was a Paramount starlet but the studio apparently signed her mainly
for her slight resemblance to Dorothy Lamour as it was common then for
studios to sign lookalikes in order to remind the stars in question
that they easily could be replaced should their behavior become
difficult or their box-office appeal begin to wane. When she moved to
Universal studios, she was utilized as a B-movie version of Maria
Montez, one of the studio's reigning divas.
[edit] Film career
Her break came in 1945 playing the title role in Salome, Where She
Danced. Though not a critical success it was a box office favorite and
De Carlo was hailed as an up-and-coming star. Of the role, she was less
sure, saying of her entrance, "I came through these beaded curtains,
wearing a Japanese kimono and a Japanese headpiece, and then performed
a Siamese dance. Nobody seemed to know quite why."
In 1947 she played her first leading role in Slave Girl and then in
1949 had her biggest success. As the female lead opposite Burt
Lancaster in Criss Cross, she played a femme fatale, and her career
began to ascend. The 1957 film Band of Angels featured her opposite
Clark Gable in an American Civil War story, along with Sidney Poitier
and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.
For the next several years, she was constantly working although many of
the films failed to advance her career.
Cast in The Ten Commandments (1956) in a leading role (as Zipporah,
also spelled Sephora, Moses' wife), De Carlo was part of a major hit.
The film was a huge success and De Carlo was among those to be praised
for her restrained work.
[edit] The Munsters
However, her most famous role that led her to pop culture legacy is of
Lily Munster in the cult television series The Munsters (1964-1966),
which allowed De Carlo to demonstrate a comic flair that her films had
failed to utilize. She also played Lily in the 1966 feature film,
Munster, Go Home and the 1981 TV movie The Munsters' Revenge.
[edit] Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Yvonne De Carlo
was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6124 Hollywood
Blvd. and a second star at 6715 Hollywood Blvd. for her contribution to
television.
[edit] Other entertainment activities
DeCarlo performed on Broadway, notably in the role of Carlotta Campion,
introducing the song "I'm Still Here" in the Stephen Sondheim musical
Follies, of which show she was the last lead female performer to die
(having been predeceased by Alexis Smith, Dorothy Collins, Fifi
D'Orsay, and Ethel Shutta).
Trained in opera and a former chorister when she was a child in
Vancouver, De Carlo possessed a powerful contralto voice and released
an LP of standards called Yvonne De Carlo Sings in 1957. She sang and
played the harp on at least one episode of The Munsters.
She also received recognition for her work in various low-budget horror
movies, such as The Power, The Seven Minutes, House of Shadows,
Sorority House Murders, Cellar Dweller, Mirror, Mirror, Blazing
Stewardesses, and American Gothic.
De Carlo worked in both film and television, playing her most recent
role in the television production of The Barefoot Executive (1995).
[edit] Personal life
She was married to the stuntman Robert Morgan from 1955 to 1968, when
they divorced; they had two sons, Bruce and Michael. Morgan had a
daughter, Bari, from a previous marriage. De Carlo was a naturalized
citizen of the United States. In her autobiography, published in 1987,
she listed 22 lovers, including Aly Khan, Billy Wilder, Burt Lancaster,
Howard Hughes, Robert Stack, and Robert Taylor.
[edit] Last career appearance and later life
De Carlo's last big-screen appearance was as Aunt Rosa in the 1991
Sylvester Stallone comedy Oscar, directed by John Landis.
Her last TV movie appearance was as Norma, in the 1995 Disney remake of
The Barefoot Executive, opposite Eddie Albert.
Her son Michael died in 1997. De Carlo had a stroke the following year.
Former Munsters co-star Butch Patrick said on the September 25, 2006,
edition of the Howard Stern Show that De Carlo was by then a resident
of the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in
Woodland Hills, California.
On January 8, 2007, De Carlo died of natural causes at the age of 84 at
the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland
Hills, California, and is survived by two children, son Bruce and
step-daughter Bari.[1]
[edit] Filmography
I Look at You (1941) (short subject)
Harvard, Here I Come! (1941)
The Kink of the Campus (1941) (short subject)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
Road to Morocco (1942)
Youth on Parade (1942)
Lucky Jordan (1942)
Rhythm Parade (1942)
The Crystal Ball (1943)
Salute for Three (1943)
So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (film) (1943)
Let's Face It (1943)
Deerslayer (1943)
True to Life (1943)
Standing Room Only (1944)
The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944)
Fun Time (1944) (short subject)
Kismet (1944)
Rainbow Island (1944)
Here Come the Waves (1944)
Practically Yours (1944)
Bring on the Girls (1945)
Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
Frontier Gal (1945)
Song of Scheherazade (1947)
Brute Force (1947)
Slave Girl (1947)
Black Bart (1948)
Casbah (1948)
River Lady (1948)
Criss Cross (1949)
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
Buccaneer's Gal (1950)
The Desert Hawk (1950)
Tomahawk (1951)
Hotel Sahara (1951)
Silver City (1951)
The San Francisco Story (1952)
Scarlet Angel (1952)
Hurricane Smith (1952)
Sombrero (1953)
Sea Devils (1953)
The Captain's Paradise (1953)
Fort Algiers (1953)
Border River (1954)
Happy Ever After (1954)
Passion (1954)
Shotgun (1955)
The Contessa's Secret (1955)
Flame of the Islands (1956)
Raw Edge (1956)
Magic Fire (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
Band of Angels (1957)
The Sword and the Cross (1958)
Timbuktu (1959)
McLintock! (1963)
A Global Affair (1964)
Law of the Lawless (1964)
Forbidden Temptations (1965) (documentary)
Munster, Go Home (1966)
Hostile Guns (1967)
The Power (1968)
Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)
The Delta Factor (1970)
The Seven Minutes (1971)
Black Fire (1975)
Blazing Stewardesses (1975)
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975)
House of Shadows (1976)
Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
Satan's Cheerleaders (1977)
Nocturna (1979)
Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979)
Black Fire (1979) (Spanish version)
The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
Silent Scream (1980)
Liar's Moon (1981)
National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982)
Vultures (1983)
Play Dead (1985)
Flesh and Bullets (1985)
American Gothic (1988)
Cellar Dweller (1988)
Mirror, Mirror (1990)
Oscar (1991)
The Naked Truth (1992 direct-to-video)
Desert Kickboxer a.k.a. Desert Hawk (1992 direct-to-video;
unconfirmed[2])
Seasons of the Heart (1993) (voice only)
[edit] TV work
The Munsters (1964 - 1966)
The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974)
The Mark of Zorro (1974)
The Munsters' Revenge (1981)
A Masterpiece of Murder (1986)
Here Come the Munsters (1995) (Cameo)
The Barefoot Executive (1995)
[edit] Book
De Carlo, Yvonne; Warren, Doug (1997). Yvonne: An Autobiography
(Hardcover). USA: St Martins Press. ISBN 0312002173.
[edit] Footnotes
^ "Yvonne De Carlo, star of TV's 'Munsters,' dies in LA at 84" by Bob
Thomas, Associated Press, in San Jose Mercury News Jan. 10, 2007
^ Credit appears only on the volunteer-user Internet Movie Database,
with no corroborating source on the Internet
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Yvonne De CarloYvonne De Carlo at the Internet Movie Database
AP report at CNN.com (January 10, 2007): "Yvonne De Carlo, 'Munsters'
star, dead"
Media Newswire press release: 'Munsters' Television Star Yvonne De
Carlo Dies at 84
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