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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.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.
Music:
De Carlo released several albums in the 1950s,
highlighting her pleasant singing voice which she had previously showcased in
her 1940s musicals. A stunningly portraited Yvonne graces the cover of this
Masterseal Record copywrited 1957. With John
Towner conducted orchestra, Lily sings "The End of A Love Affair", "Mood
Indigo", "I Got It Bad",
"Little Girl Blue", "Blue Moon", "One For My Baby", "In the Blue Of Evening",
"Am I Blue" and
"But Not For Me". In case you didn't know, Yvonne's first career dream was to
become a singer for the
opera. She even debuted as a star in Strauss' "Die Fledermaus" at the Hollywood
Bowl!
"Band Of Angels"
Soundtrack album
Once in a while, a truly rare record comes on the
block, and this is one of them! Warner Bros.
featured Clark Gable, Yvonne De-Carlo, and SIDNEY POITIER and Efrem Zimbalist,
Jr. in this Civil-War era
movie. After all, Gone With The Wind did great in '38, and 20 years later the
public was ready for some more.
This dealt with slavery and being of "mixed blood" and other things that weren't
discussed in polite society!
Music by Max Steiner.
At Home With The Munsters - A Night With TV'S Most
Unusual Family - Starring the TV cast in song
and story: Herman, Lily, Eddie, Grandpa and Marilyn. It features Fred Gwynne as
Herman Munster, Yvonne
De Carlo as Lily, Al Lewis as Grandpa, Pat Priest as Marilyn, Butch Patrick as
Eddie with story and lyrics
by Bob Mosher and music by Jack Marshall. This is a Golden Records LP ..139.
There is a date
of 1964 on the album jacket.
Movies:
Mirror, Mirror (1991)
Cellar Dweller (1988)
American Gothic (1987)
Bad Girls in the Movies (1986)
Play Dead (1986)
Vultures (1983)
The Munsters' Revenge (1981)
Nocturna (1981)
House of Shadows (1980)
Guyana, Cult of the Damned (1980)
Satan's Cheerleaders (1977)
Good Idea (1975)
It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975)
The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974)
The Mark of Zorro (1974)
The Power (1968)
Arizona Bushwhackers (1968)
Hostile Guns (1967)
Arizona Bushwackers (1967)
Munster, Go Home (1966)
A Global Affair (1964)
Law of the Lawless (1964)
McLintock! (1963)
Timbuktu (1959)
The Sword and The Cross (1958)
Band of Angels (1957)
Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
The Ten Commandments - 35th Anniversary Collector's Edition (1956)
Raw Edge (1956)
Magic Fire (1956)
Flame of the Islands (1955)
Shotgun (1955)
The Captain's Paradise (1954)
Passion (1954)
Border River (1954)
Tonight's the Night (1954)
Sea Devils (1953)
Scarlet Angel (1952)
The San Francisco Story (1952)
Hurricane Smith (1952)
Fort Algiers (1952)
Tomahawk (1951)
Silver City (1951)
Hotel Sahara (1951)
The Desert Hawk (1950)
Buccaneer's Girl (1950)
Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949)
The Gal Who Took the West (1949)
Criss Cross (1948)
Casbah (1948)
Black Bart (1948)
River Lady (1948)
Brute Force (1947)
Song of Scheherazade (1947)
Slave Girl (1947)
Salome, Where She Danced (1945)
Frontier Gal (1945)
Road to Morocco (1942)
Television:
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 Contessa
(1995)
The Best of Bonanza - V. 1
Yuletide TV Treats 2
Heroes:
Time Line
Sept. 1, 1922: Born as Peggy Yvonne Middleton in
Vancouver, British Columbia.
1937: Her mother takes her to Hollywood
1938: Wins the title of "Miss Venice Beach." She has
trouble finding work after this so she and her mother return to Canada.
1940: She and her mother return to Hollywood.
1941: Appears in her first film, Harvard, Here I
Come!
1943: Plays the role of Wah-Tah in Deerslayer.
1945: Plays Salome in Salome, Where She Danced. The film jumpstarts her career.
1945: Plays the role of Lorena Dumont in Frontier Gal.
1947: Plays the role of Cara de Talavera in Song of Scheherazade.
1947: Appears in Brute Force with Burt Lancaster.
1947: Lands her first lead role in Slave Girl.
1948: Stars in Black Bart.
1949: Stars in Criss Cross with Burt Lancaster.
1950: Stars in The Desert Hawk.
1951: Stars in Silver City.
1952: Stars in Scarlet Angel.
1955: Marries stuntman Bob Morgan.
1956: Stars as Sephora, Moses' wife, in the Cecil B. DeMille film, The Ten
Commandments with Charlton Heston, John Derek, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson,
Debra Paget and Yul Brynner.
1957: Stars as Amantha Starr in Band of Angels.
1959: Appears on the tv show, Bonanza.
1962: Appears on the tv show, The Virginians.
1963: Stars in the film, McLintock!
1964: Begins playing Lily Munster on the tv show, The Munsters. She takes the
role to pay for her husband Bob Morgan's medical bills. The show runs from
1964-1966.
1968: Divorces Bob Morgan.
1968: Stars in the sci-fi film, The Power, with George Hamilton and Susanne
Pleshette.
1971: Stars in the film, The Seven Minutes.
1976: Stars in the film, La Casa de las sombras.
1993: Stars in the film, The Sorority House Murders.
1995: Stars in the tv production of The Barefoot Contessa.
