RIP Lily Munster

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'Munsters' star Yvonne De Carlo dies

LOS ANGELES - Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's slapstick comedy "The Munsters," has died. She was 84.

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.

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."

But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 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.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

She was a hottie in her time.

 

[Selena_Kitt]

She had gorgeous red hair under there:

http://img.mtv3.fi/mn_kuvat/mtv3/ohjelmat/hollywoodin_tahdet/331285.jpg

 

[minsue]

RIP

 

[impressive]

Damn.

 

[Carnevil9]

She's pushing up lilies......

 

[rgraham666]

Sigh.

 

[Grushenka]

One of the coolest TV moms ever, especially following Mrs. Nelson and Mrs. Cleaver.

 

[Anniejustagirl]

brain fade.... oh THAT Lily

 

[Fallenfromgrace]

Man...i loved that show!

RIP

 

[arienette]

That was such a great show! Now I'm in the mood to watch it.

 

[Guest]

 

[Selena_Kitt]

Who can hum the theme from the Munsters?

(Not the Addams Family--the Munsters!)

 

[Guest]

Who can hum the theme from the Munsters?

(Not the Addams Family--the Munsters!)

I can.

(Da, da da da, da, da da da -
da da da, da da da da da, daaaaaaah)

 

[Grushenka]

(Da, da da da, da, da da da -
da da da, da da da da da, daaaaaaah)

Uh, what key is that in?

 

[Selena_Kitt]

I can.

(Da, da da da, da, da da da -
da da da, da da da da da, daaaaaaah)

Good one!

At least you didn't say:
da da da dum *snap snap*
da da da dum *snap snap*
da da da dum da da da dum da da da dum *snap snap*

 

[TheeGoatPig]

Uh, what key is that in?

It's in Da

 

[Guest]

Uh, what key is that in?

Bb minor, actually.

(I just ran it through on the piano.)

 

[Belegon]

http://www.voltini.com/1524ecc0.jpg

 

[Lee Chambers]

 

[oggbashan]

She could sing and she could dance even if sometimes the script let her down:

Of her first film role, she was less sure, saying of her entrance, "I came through these beaded curtains, wearing a Japanese kimono and a Japanese headpiece, and then performed a Siamese dance. Nobody seemed to know quite why."

Before the Munsters she was an appreciated but minor star competent and professional at her work. She was more versatile (and sexier) than the studio system let her demonstrate and a great ambassador for the better aspects of Hollywood.

She deserves her star on the sidewalk of fame.

Og

 

[Guest]

Great Actress. Lily was a great character.

Damn, I had her down to play Abs in the Lit Movie.