# Who Played "Cousin It" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 9, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-played-cousin-it/249471 "2004-06-09T16:29:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-played-cousin-it/249471/21 "2004-06-10T01:52:37Z")
Count me as _definitely_ an Addams Family fan. No need to expound upon my reasons because others have already expressed their reasons quite eloquently. As for Morticia Addams (Carolyn Jones) - I was just a tad too young to appreciate fully, her “babeness”. (A short time later, I hit puberty _the_ very night Julie Newmar appeared as Catwoman on “Batman”). One thing similar about both characters - each must have been “poured” into their costumes. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-played-cousin-it/249471/22 "2004-06-10T02:12:07Z")
Gomez and Morticia are the [patron saints of romance](http://www.hootisland.com/saints/addams.html). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-played-cousin-it/249471/23 "2004-06-10T02:36:08Z")
When I was little, I _really_ wanted to live in the Addams’s house! I loved the play room. Count me in as a Carolyn Jones fan. She was stunning! FWIW, she was also in the great _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ (1956). ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-played-cousin-it/249471/24 "2004-06-10T02:42:39Z")
Watching the reruns as a 10-year-old, I gradually became aware that Morticia’s talking in French had the same effect on me that it did on Gomez. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-played-cousin-it/249471/25 "2004-06-10T02:57:45Z")
> [@Johnny L.A.](#): > > When I was little, I _really_ wanted to live in the Addams’s house! I loved the play room… I remember the day somebody compared the decor of my apartment to the Addams Family. I still want a nice adjoining cavern with an echo that can be switched off and a flock of pet bats. I guess that dream will have to wait until I have a house. ---
**Author:** ![singular1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@singular1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/singular1)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-played-cousin-it/249471/26 "2004-06-10T12:28:36Z")
The sad thing is that the role of Morticia resulted in Carolyn Jones’ devastating depression. I read this in a book about the Munsters a long time ago, and I can’t find it online, but it was an interview with her. She said she felt trapped by the role and the wardrobe, and she was glad when it got cancelled. [Here](http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/carolynjones.html) is a good site about Carolyn. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2004, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-played-cousin-it/249471/27 "2004-06-10T14:22:36Z")
Ted Cassidy felt the same way. He really wanted to be recognized as an actor and not ‘that tall guy with the really deep voice’. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-played-cousin-it/249471.md?page=1)