Yvonne De Carlo
Yvonne De Carlo ( born September 1, 1922 in Vancouver as Margaret Yvonne Middleton, † January 8, 2007 in Los Angeles ) was a kanadischstämmige American actress. She became famous by the television series The Munsters.
Life and career
Supported by her mother, she learned dancing at an early age, singing in the choir and studied acting. With fifteen ( 1937) she first visited Hollywood in search of a role, but without success. In 1940, she launched a new attempt and landed a small role in the short musical I look at You and the film Harvard Here I Come. There were other small roles in which she was often not even mentioned in the credits. During the war years actresses were not very popular with an exotic and therefore " un-American " look. Therefore, they incidentally worked in clubs or as a singer.
Had her breakthrough Yvonne De Carlo in 1945 as a dancing spy in the Western Salome Where She Danced. Although panned by critics, he was quite successful at the box office and gave De Carlo a certain level of awareness and thus better roles. In 1947, she starred opposite Burt Lancaster in cell R 17 ( Brute Force) and again in 1949 in Consenting Alibi ( Criss Cross), where Tony Curtis had his first film appearance as a dancer. Director Cecil B. DeMille they eventually undertook in 1956 to work in their greatest movie. She took over the role of Sephora, the wife of Moses (played by Charlton Heston ) in The Ten Commandments ( The Ten Commandments ). She has worked with many former screen sizes such as Alec Guinness, 1953 The key to paradise ( The Captain's Paradise ), Clark Gable and Sidney Poitier in 1957 in Weep for the Damned ( Band of Angels ), John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, 1963 in MacLintock ( McLintock ), George Montgomery in 1967 in Texas Desperados ( Hostile Guns ), George Hamilton in 1968 in the six suspects ( The Power ) and Rod Steiger, 1987 in Dark Paradise ( American Gothic ). Guest appearances they had in television series such as Bonanza and The Men from Shiloh ( The Virginian / The Men from Shiloh ).
Known to a large audience was Yvonne De Carlo, however, as Lily Munster in the television series The Munsters from 1964 to 1966 and the two subsequent films in 1966 and 1981. She had assumed this role because her husband on the set of The West Was Won critically injured had been, and hospital costs grew immeasurably.
In 1971, she sang on Broadway in the musical Follies and he earned high praise.
Your last big role was in 1991 as Aunt Rosa in the remake of Oscar - From bad to worse (Oscar) by and starring Sylvester Stallone.
Yvonne De Carlo was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for her performance in the film ( 6124 Hollywood Blvd. ) And one for her television work ( 6715 Hollywood Blvd. ).
Was married Yvonne de Carlo from 1955 to 1968 with the stuntman Robert Morgan. From this divorced couple had two sons: Bob and Michael Morgan. Michael died in 1997.
Yvonne De Carlo died on 8 January 2007 aged 84 at the Motion Picture & Television nursing home (Los Angeles ), in which she was pulled after a stroke in 1998.
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Her stage name is a combination of her middle name and the maiden name of her mother.
In 1938 she was Miss Venice Beach.
As a former choir singer Yvonne De Carlo possessed a powerful voice ( Contraalt ) and published in 1957 an LP with the name Yvonne De Carlo Sings. In an episode of the television series The Munsters, she played a harp and sang itself
During her work on The Munsters Yvonne de Carlo had a private Jaguar sedan, whose fittings and attachments should thematically reminiscent of the show - the hubcaps for example, were carried out as cobwebs. She gave up the car after he was repeatedly like the vandalism of "Souvenir " hunters prey.
In her autobiography, the beautiful entertainer talked about her numerous lovers, including Howard Hughes and Billy Wilder.
In a rematch of the television series The Munsters, the TV movie An eerie family to cry ( Here Come the Munsters ) of 1995 she had a cameo appearance along with their colleagues at that time Al Lewis, Butch Patrick and Pat Priest.