# Yvonne De Carlo has passed away **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 10, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450 "2007-01-10T20:27:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/1 "2007-01-10T20:27:53Z")
CNN is reporting that Yvonne DeCarlo has died at the age of 84. [Story](http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/01/10/obit.decarlo.ap/index.html). I didn’t realize that she was in The 10 Commandments. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/2 "2007-01-10T20:34:13Z")
Yvonne De _Carlo_ and _Carlo_ Ponti Will Death rest before it’s a carload of Carloes? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/3 "2007-01-10T20:35:07Z")
[QUOTE=Slithy Tove] Will Death rest before it’s a carload of Carloes? [/QUOTE] Maybe Death checked his tank and was a car low. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/4 "2007-01-10T20:50:07Z")
Darn, darn, darn! RIP dear Lily. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/5 "2007-01-10T20:52:11Z")
I swear my parents told me she was dead like 35 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/6 "2007-01-10T21:11:50Z")
[QUOTE=Caricci] I swear my parents told me she was dead like 35 years ago. [/QUOTE] Probably confused with [Carolyn Jones](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Jones) who played Morticia Adams ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/7 "2007-01-10T21:18:05Z")
I’ve only seen her in one movie - _The Captain’s Paradise_, where she starred opposite Alec Guinness, and darned near stole the movie from him. She was a good actress and an exotic beauty. I’m sorry she’s gone. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/8 "2007-01-10T21:18:30Z")
Thanks for the tip! My company will get together some photos and get a quick obit out. How’s this? I had to keep it real short and snappy: > [@](#): > > Glamour girl Yvonne De Carlo, who went from being a big-screen bombshell to a TV monster Mom, died at at Los Angeles hospital on January 10. She was 84. The British Columbia native began playing bit parts in the early 1940s, edging toward B-film stardom with Salome Where She Danced (1945), Brute Force (1947), and Criss Cross (1949). Her career continued through the 1950s, as her dark, sultry looks and commanding style were showcased in The Ten Commandments (1956) and Band of Angels (1957). De Carlo turned to TV in the 1950s and appeared on such shows as Death Valley Days and Burke’s Law, but her best-known role was as the green-faced housewife Lily in the short-lived but fondly remembered sitcom The Munsters (1964-1966). De Carlo, who continued acting until suffering a stroke in the late 1990s, also had a huge success on Broadway as an aging showgirl in Follies (1971-1972). ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/9 "2007-01-10T21:20:33Z")
84 huh? Depending on which source you believe, she may have been the same age as her TV dad, the wonderful Grandpa Al Lewis who just died within the year. I loved Grandpa Al ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/10 "2007-01-10T21:23:03Z")
Check out this old [pic](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/news/archive/2007/01/10/state/n112142S55.DTL&o=0) of her hanging out with Jimmy Stewart in the late '40’s. She was quite a looker. Oh, and I forgot - she was also in _Mclintock_, another film in which she delivered a fine comedic performance. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2007, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/11 "2007-01-10T21:56:23Z")
One of the most touching things I ever saw her do on _The Munsters_ was sit down at a harp and play and sing _Shenandoah_. I had the feeling that she was the actual harpist in that performance. Does anybody know if I was right? ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/12 "2007-01-11T00:59:22Z")
My obit doesn’t go out till tomorrow, and now I hear she died on the 8th, not the 10th–gotta double check in the morning. Poor old soul–had a stroke ten years ago and has probably been wasting away in a nursing home all these years. Wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy’s dog. Maybe I could do a dual obit of **Yvonne De Carlo Ponti**. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/13 "2007-01-11T01:40:25Z")
She was awesome–smoldering–alongside Burt Lancaster in _Criss Cross_. After seeing her in that, I make sure to TiVo every appearance she makes on TCM. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/14 "2007-01-11T02:28:53Z")
She was also an uncredited bit player in [So Proudly We Hail](http://imdb.com/title/tt0036367/), one of my favorite Noble WWII Nurses sagas. I think this is the one were Veronica Lake gives a whole new meaning to the word “bazoom.” ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/15 "2007-01-11T02:47:56Z")
Eve, go ahead on and give her some Femme Fatale points, to balance out that caked-on make-up Munster thing, hmm? ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/16 "2007-01-11T05:14:33Z")
I wouldn’t describe Lily Munster as “green-faced” but then again I thought Mara was blue. ---
**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:** [January 11, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/17 "2007-01-11T05:27:08Z")
_o/` Good times and bum times, I've seen 'em all and, my dear, I'm still here. Plush velvet sometimes, Sometimes just pretzels and beer, But I'm here. I've run the gamut. A to Z. Three cheers and dammit, C'est la vie. I got through all of last year And I'm here. Lord knows, at least I was there, And I'm here! Look who's here! I'm still here! o/`_ Ms. DeCarlo was the original Carlotta in Sondheim’s _Follies_ ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/18 "2007-01-11T06:14:20Z")
[QUOTE=Eve] She was also an uncredited bit player in [So Proudly We Hail](http://imdb.com/title/tt0036367/), one of my favorite Noble WWII Nurses sagas. I think this is the one were Veronica Lake gives a whole new meaning to the word “bazoom.” [/QUOTE] Yeah, another of my favorite YdeC moments. In one of my favorite entries in one of my favorite subgenres: WWII movies about lady soldiers (fave entry: _Cry Havoc_). ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/19 "2007-01-11T08:59:18Z")
This has been all over the local radio today. I hear that she had a thing with Howard Hughes. Not bad for one of our own! ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450/20 "2007-01-11T14:13:48Z")
For some of us, she’ll always be remembered as Moses’s wife in DeMille’s THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yvonne-de-carlo-has-passed-away/387450.md?page=2)