Yvonne, But Not Forgotten

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Vaya Yvonne Dios

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More business for Gateman, Goodbury and Graves
(Obscure props to Mark)
Yvonne De Carlo, accidental matriarch of one of TV’s oddest families, has died at the age of 84. She started out in the 1940s as eye candy in such meaty roles as Secretary (Standing Room Only, The Crystal Ball), Showgirl (Rhythm Parade, This Gun for Hire) and Girl (So Proudly We Hail!,Lucky Jordan, occasionally showing range as Girl in Singing Quartette (Salute for Three), Girl in Café (For Whom he Bell Tolls), Native Girl (The Story of Dr. Wassell) and Bathing Girl (Harvard, Here I Come!). She was eventually allowed to speak and had carved out a career for herself with dozens of film credits, largely as a screen siren, but also including Moses’ wife Sephora in The Ten Commandments and maid to John Wayne’s titular McClintock! To pay for her stuntman husband’s medical bills after he was nearly killed on How The West Was Won, she took her most famous role as Lily Munster, a combination of the Bride of Frankenstein and Dracula’s Daughters in The Munsters. While not as hot as the Ginger/Mary Ann or Samantha/Jeannie debates, The Munsters vs. The Addams Family is one of the defining TV classic arguments. With Lily, Fred, Grampa, Morticia and Uncle Fester gone to the great beyond, only Gomez (John Astin) is left to carry the flag. De Carlo parlayed the cult icon status into rent-paying roles in such horror dreck as American Gothic, Silent Scream, Nocturna (aptly playing Jugula) and Satan’s Dog.

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