[lbo-talk] Yvonne DeCarlo is Dead

[Jerry Monaco]

On 1/10/07, Brian Charles  Dauth <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> Not only was she Lily Munster, her roof-raising rendition of "I'm Still
> Here" in Sondheim's "Follies" is one of the musical highpoints of the 20th
> cenury.
>
>  LOS ANGELES -- Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife
> in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's "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."
>
>

Watch her in "Criss Cross", a great noir starring Burt Lancaster and
directed by Siodmak.

DeCarlo actually tries to act in this movie.  She does look sexy
dancing in the flashback bar scene.

Jerry