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Yvonne De Carlo (born Peggy 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. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikinews has news related to: Obituaries Deaths in 2007 is a list of notable people who died in 2007. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (615x1126, 307 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Yvonne De Carlo ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Vancouver (pronounced: ) is a city in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. ... Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English de facto (none stated in law) Flower Pacific dogwood Tree Western Redcedar Bird Stellers Jay Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 36 6 Area... January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Zipporah or Tzipora (צִפּוֹרָה Bird, Standard Hebrew Ẓippora, Tiberian Hebrew á¹¢ippôrāh), mentioned in the Book of Exodus or Safura in Arabic (Safrawa in some version), was Moses wife, and the daughter of Jethro, a priest of Midian. ... The Ten Commandments is a 1956 epic film from Paramount Pictures in VistaVision directed by Cecil B. DeMille, which tells in the broadest Hollywood style the Bible story of Moses (Charlton Heston) as he struggles to get Pharaoh Ramesses II (Yul Brynner) to let the Israelites leave Egypt. ... Lily Munster Yvonne De Carlo) is a character in the TV show The Munsters. ... The Munsters was a 1960s American television sitcom, depicting the home life of a family of horror movie monsters. ... September 1 is the 244th day of the year (245th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... January 8 is the 8th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2007 (MMVII) is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Lily Munster Yvonne De Carlo) is a character in the TV show The Munsters. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... CBS (an abbreviation for Columbia Broadcasting System, its former legal name) is one of the largest television networks, and formerly one of the largest radio networks, in the United States. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The Munsters was a 1960s American television sitcom, depicting the home life of a family of horror movie monsters. ...

Biography

Early life

The daughter of an ambitious but unsuccessful aspiring actress of Italian descent, 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. This article refers to the city in British Columbia, Canada. ... ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ...

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. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ... Dorothy Lamour (December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American motion picture actress, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, died in Hollywood, California. ... Maria Montez was the stage name of María África Gracia Antonia Vidal de Santos Silas (June 6, 1912, Barahona, Dominican Republic - September 7, 1951, Paris, France). ...

Her professional name, Yvonne De Carlo, was a combination of her middle name (Yvonne) and her Italian mother's maiden surname (De Carlo).

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." Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ...

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. Year 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1947 calendar). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Criss Cross is a 1949 film noir movie, directed by Robert Siodmak from a novel written by Don Tracy. ... This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. ... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an Academy Award-winning American film actor and the biggest box office star of the early sound film era. ... Combatants United States of America (Union) Confederate States of America (Confederacy) Commanders Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee Strength 2,200,000 1,064,000 Casualties 110,000 killed in action, 360,000 total dead, 275,200 wounded 93,000 killed in action, 258,000 total... Sir Sidney Poitier KBE, (IPA pronunciation: ) (born February 20, 1927), is a Bahamian American Academy Award-winning actor (film and stage), film director, and activist. ... 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 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. The Ten Commandments is a 1956 epic film from Paramount Pictures in VistaVision directed by Cecil B. DeMille, which tells in the broadest Hollywood style the Bible story of Moses (Charlton Heston) as he struggles to get Pharaoh Ramesses II (Yul Brynner) to let the Israelites leave Egypt. ... Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sephora Logo Sephora is a chain of stores selling cosmetics and related beauty products, owned by LVMH. // The Sephora chain includes 515 stores in 14 countries. ...

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. Lily Munster Yvonne De Carlo) is a character in the TV show The Munsters. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The Munsters was a 1960s American television sitcom, depicting the home life of a family of horror movie monsters. ...

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. A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ... A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...

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). Broadway theatre[1] is often considered the highest professional form of theatre in the United States. ... Stephen Joshua Sondheim (b. ... Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. ... Alexis Smith Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was an actress. ... The cast of Your Hit Parade (left to right) Russell Arms, Gisele Mackenzie, Dorothy Collins, and Snooky Lanson Dorothy Collins (November 18, 1926 - July 21, 1994) was a Canadian singer and actress. ... Fifi DOrsay (April 16, 1904 - December 2, 1983) was an actress. ... Ethel Shutta (pronounced shoo-tay) (1 December 1896 – 5 February 1976) was an American actress and singer, who came to prominence through her performances on Jack Bennys radio show, her role in the early Eddie Cantor musical Whoopee!, and her Broadway comeback in Follies at the age of 74. ...

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. The article is about the 1968 film. ... Mirror, Mirror is a popular title for works of fiction. ... Blazing Stewardesses-A Three Stooges short Featuring:Moe Howard,Emil Sitka{the middle official Stooge replacing Larry Fine},and Curly Joe [De Rita].But was never made because of Moe Howards death in 1975. ... American Gothic is a 1988 slasher film written by Burt Wetanson and Michael Vines and directed by John Hough. ...

De Carlo worked in both film and television, playing her most recent role in the television production of The Barefoot Executive (1995). 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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. 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Naturalization is the process whereby a person becomes a national of a nation, or a citizen of a country, other than the one of his birth. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Prince Aly Khan (June 13, 1911 - May 12, 1960), an international playboy, was vice president of the United Nations General Assembly and was the son of Aga Khan III (1877-1957) and his second wife, Teresa Ginetta Magliano (1888-1926). ... Billy Wilder (June 22, 1906 – March 27, 2002) was an Austrian-American journalist, screenwriter, film director, and producer whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. ... Robert Stack c1960 Charles Langford Modini Stack (January 13, 1919 – October, 2002), better known as Robert Stack, was an American stage and movie actor. ... There are many people known as Bob Taylor or Robert Taylor, including: Robert Taylor (developer) (born 1972-present), Owner of FlashExtensions. ...

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. A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...

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. 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946), is an American Academy Award-nominated film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. ... There have been two films named Oscar: Oscar (1967 film) Oscar (1991 film) This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. ... John Landis (born August 3, 1950) is a movie actor, director, writer, and producer. ...

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. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A stroke, also known as cerebrovascular accident (CVA),[1] is an acute neurological injury in which the blood supply to a part of the brain is interrupted. ... The Munsters was an American television sitcom, depicting the home life of a family of horror movie monsters. ... Patrick Alan Lilley (b. ... September 25 is the 268th day of the year (269th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Howard Stern Show is Howard Sterns radio show heard four or five days (Monday–Thursday / Monday–Friday) a week on Howard 100 (West Coast feed on channel Howard 101), a Sirius Satellite Radio station. ... The Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital is a motion picture and television industry complex complete with a retirement community, with individual cottages, and a fully licensed, acute-care hospital, located at 23388 Mulholland Drive in Woodland Hills, California. ... Woodland Hills is a community within the City of Los Angeles. ...

De Carlo died of natural causes at the age of eighty-four at the Motion Picture and Television facility in suburban Los Angeles and is survived by two children, Bruce and Bari^[1]. Dope Hiphop crew out of Sydney Australia. ...

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 (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)

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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)

The Munsters was a 1960s American television sitcom, depicting the home life of a family of horror movie monsters. ... The Mark of Zorro was a made-for-TV movie released in 1974. ...

Book

Yvonne: An Autobiography (Hardcover) St Martins Pr; 1st ed edition (February 1987) ISBN-13: 978-0312002176

Footnotes

1. ^ "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
2. ^ Credit appears only on the volunteer-user Internet Movie Database, with no corroborating source on the Internet

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References

• Yvonne De Carlo at the Internet Movie Database
• AP report at CNN.com (Jan. 10, 2007): "Yvonne De Carlo, 'Munsters' star, dead"