"Munsters" Star Yvonne De Carlo Dead

[Beowulf]

LOS ANGELES - <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = AT /><AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's "The Munsters," has died. She was 84.
<AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.
<AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."
<AT:CLASS></AT:CLASS>But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 slapstick horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.
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RIP, Lily!

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

I enjoyed "The Munsters," and especially her campy performance. She played beautifully against Fred Gwynn's Herman, who sadly is gone as well. I'm sorry I don't remember any of her other performances. May the Lord be with her family and loved ones in their time of grief.

[Kathy30]

WHAT! She died at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles! That's an old folks home for impoverished performers.