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"Lily Munster" Dies
ABC- AP ^ | 1/10/07

Posted on 01/10/2007 12:13:12 PM PST by Borges

LOS ANGELES (AP) - January 10, 2007 - 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.

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.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: yvonnedecarlo
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1 posted on 01/10/2007 12:13:13 PM PST by Borges
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2 posted on 01/10/2007 12:14:15 PM PST by Borges
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3 posted on 01/10/2007 12:15:36 PM PST by Borges
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A true beauty........RIP, Yvonne......


4 posted on 01/10/2007 12:15:45 PM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's slapstick comedy "The Munsters,"

Wow. I never made the connection.

5 posted on 01/10/2007 12:16:14 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: Borges

Wasn't she the sister of some other famous actress?


6 posted on 01/10/2007 12:16:14 PM PST by spyone
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This is a dupe. Sorry.


7 posted on 01/10/2007 12:16:55 PM PST by Borges
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8 posted on 01/10/2007 12:17:02 PM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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Lily vs. Morticia. The Goth version of Ginger vs. Mary Anne.


9 posted on 01/10/2007 12:17:54 PM PST by dfwgator (The University of Florida - Championship U)
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To: ElkGroveDan

She also dated the Shah of Iran in their younger days, IIRC.......


10 posted on 01/10/2007 12:18:12 PM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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To: Borges

Film career

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 (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)
Desert Kickboxer (1992)
The Sorority House Murders (1993)
Seasons of the Heart (1993) (voice only)


11 posted on 01/10/2007 12:18:28 PM PST by nuconvert ([there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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Tish! (...You spoke French!...)

Oh yeah, Mary Anne, too!

12 posted on 01/10/2007 12:19:11 PM PST by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: Borges
She was pretty.


13 posted on 01/10/2007 12:19:37 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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R I P

14 posted on 01/10/2007 12:20:42 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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De Carlo also has a Broadway credit, as Carlotta Campion in the original Follies. Everyone I've spoken to who saw her in that role says she was unforgettable.


http://www.ibdb.com/person.asp?id=37608


15 posted on 01/10/2007 12:32:59 PM PST by Silly (sarcasmoff.com)
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Beautiful Women too. I grew up with the Munsters, but I also loved her in McLintock with John Wayne and of course The Ten Commandments.
16 posted on 01/10/2007 1:06:52 PM PST by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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Guyana: Cult of the Damned was a depressingly tasteless film. It saddened me to see her in it.
17 posted on 01/10/2007 1:11:04 PM PST by Rocko
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Godspeed Yvonne.

The power of television, she will be remembered primarily as Lily Munster.

18 posted on 01/10/2007 1:25:25 PM PST by FreedomGuru
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I see that the first pic returned from a Google Images search is quite revealing.

-PJ

19 posted on 01/10/2007 1:34:50 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (It's still not safe to vote Democrat.)
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To: Borges

They locked the other thread, which I went looking for when I saw your "dupe" post, because I didn't want to post on this one.

Sorry, "Lily Munster" may be who younger people think Yvonne DeCarlo was, but she was much much more than just that. Even our local news called her Lily Munster and never said her name.

Godspeed and Rest in Peace, Yvonne. Condolences to her family.


20 posted on 01/10/2007 2:45:12 PM PST by Rte66
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