Thursday 11 January 2007

Lily Munster is dead.

Actress Yvonne De Carlo, best known as the vampire Lily Munster in US sitcom The Munsters, has died aged 84.
"She passed away in my arms on Monday," said the star's son Bruce Morgan, who added that his mother's health had been declining for several years.
Born Peggy Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, she was raised in poverty and dropped out of high school to work.
After winning a beauty contest, she landed bit parts in Hollywood, and later graduated to leading lady status.

Often cast as a dancehall girl or a gun-toting sharpshooter in Westerns, she won notoriety for her hour-glass figure and striking looks.
But in 1956, she veered away from her femme fatale image to play Moses' wife in Cecil B DeMille's biblical epic The Ten Commandments.
Later, she had a key role in Stephen Sondheim's landmark Broadway musical Follies.

But for TV viewers, she will be best remembered as Lily Munster, the heavily made-up ghoul who presided over the raucous Munsters household.
The spoof-horror sitcom only ran for two years, 1964-1966, but it had a long life in syndication and resulted in two feature films, Munster Go Home in 1966 and TV movie The Munsters' Revenge in 1981.
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