De Carlo, Yvonne (1922–)

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De Carlo, Yvonne (1922–)

Canadian-born actress. Name variations: Yvonne DeCarlo (incorrect). Born Peggy Yvonne Middleton, Sept 1, 1922, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; m. Bob Morgan, 1955 (div. 1968).

Was Miss Venice Beach (1938); made film debut in Harvard Here I Come (1942), followed by Deerslayer, The Story of Dr. Wassell, Kismet, Here Come the Waves, Salome—Where She Danced, Frontier Gal, Song of Scheherazade, Brute Force, Black Bart, Casbah, Criss Cross, Calamity Jane and Sam Bass, Buccaneer's Girl, The Desert Hawk, Scarlet Angel, Hurricane Smith, Fort Algiers, The Ten Commandments, Mary Magdalene, McLintock!, Munster Go Home!, The Delta Factor, Won Ton Ton, Liar's Moon and Oscar, among others; appeared in the original Broadway cast of Sondheim's Follies (1971) and as Lily Munster on "The Munsters" (1964–66).

See also autobiography Yvonne (1987).

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