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'Munsters' star De Carlo dies at 84

Written by DeadGirl
Wednesday, 10 January 2007
January 10, 2007 CBC News Yvonne De Carlo, the Vancouver-born entertainer perhaps best known for her role as matriarch Lily on the television comedy The Munsters, has died at age 84. The film, theatre and television actress died of natural causes on Monday at the Motion Picture & Television hospital in Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday. Born Peggy Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, De Carlo was immortalized in 1956 when she starred opposite Charlton Heston as Sephora, Moses's wife, in The Ten Commandments. However, she is often remembered for her comedic turn on the syndicated hit The Munsters. The series ran from 1964-66, and featured De Carlo as the wife of Herman Munster, played by Fred Gwynne, who died in 1993. "She was the vampire mom to millions of baby boomers. In that sense, she's iconic," Burns said. "But it would be a shame if that's the only way she is remembered. She was also one of the biggest beauty queens of the '40s and '50s, one of the most beautiful women in the world. This was one of the great glamour queens of Hollywood, one of the last ones." De Carlo began her career in Hollywood as a chorus girl, but soon found small parts in film before landing the title role in 1945's Salome â€” Where She Danced. After a brief hiatus, she returned to the screen in 1947 as Gina Ferrara in the Burt Lancaster prison movie Brute Force. She continued to work in film through the 1940s and '50s, starring in such movies as Black Bart, the gangster movie Criss Cross, and opposite Clark Gable and Sidney Poitier in Band of Angels in 1957. After her film career started to wane in the late 1950s, De Carlo began appearing on such television shows as Bonanza and The Virginian. A longtime student of voice, De Carlo played the role of Carlotta Campion in the 1971 Broadway hit Follies, which won the 1972 Tony Award for best original musical score. Her performance of the Stephen Sondheim showstopping tune I'm Still Here is considered one of her greatest stage triumphs. De Carlo was married from 1955 to 1968 to the late stuntman Bob Morgan. They had two sons. She reportedly took the role as Lily Munster to pay for Morgan's medical bills after a near-fatal injury, suffered during the filming of How the West Was Won cost him his leg. De Carlo spent the later years of her life in semi-retirement in Solvang, north of Santa Barbara. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2007/01/10/decarlo-obit.html

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taphophilia (taf′ō-fil′ē-ă)

ORIGIN:
From the Greek words taphos, meaning "tomb" or "sepulcher" and philia, meaning "attraction or affinity to something, in particular the love or obsession with something"

DEFINITION: 1. An excessive interest in graves and cemeteries. 2. A love or fondness for funerals, graves, and cemeteries. 3. In psychiatry, a morbid attraction to graves and cemeteries

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