MitchThe Lady Munster Dies
January 11th 2007 07:26
Yvonne De Carlo, best known for playing Lily Minstar in the 1960's TV series died on Monday from natural causes at the age of 84.
She was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton on September 1, 1922, in Vancouver.
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.
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.
For the next several years, she was constantly working although many of the films failed to advance her career.
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.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Lily Munster.
She was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton on September 1, 1922, in Vancouver.
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.
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.
For the next several years, she was constantly working although many of the films failed to advance her career.
*This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation Licence. It uses material from the Wikipedia article Lily Munster.
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