I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily. But I gained the younger audience through The Munsters. And it was a steady job.
Yvonne De Carlo (born Margaret Yvonne Middleton; September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer. Known as the "Most Beautiful Girl in the World" and the "Queen of Technicolor", she was an internationally famous Hollywood star of the 1940s and 1950s. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for motion pictures and television.
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"Yvonne De Carlo Reminds The World There Was Life Before Lily Munster" (1987)
Oricchio, Michael (May 15, 1987). "Yvonne De Carlo Reminds The World There Was Life Before Lily Munster". Orlando Sentinel
- I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily. But I gained the younger audience through The Munsters. And it was a steady job.
- I enjoyed being in The Ten Commandments. That was a great experience—to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
- I enjoyed the comedies with Alec Guinness, and I had a real great time with Peter Ustinov in Hotel Sahara. I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
Quotes about Yvonne De Carlo
- Miss De Carlo photographs beautifully in color and in black and white film. She is a fine actress, an excellent dancer and singer. It is very unusual to find so much talent in one person.
- Walter Wanger, as quoted in "Yvonne De Carlo Chosen for Role, Over '20,000 Beautiful Girls'" (1945)
- I cast Yvonne De Carlo as Sephora, the wife of Moses, after our casting director, Bert McKay called my attention to one scene she played in Sombrero, which was a picture far removed in theme from The Ten Commandments, I sensed in her a depth, an emotional power, a womanly strength which the part of Sephora needed, and which she gave it.
- Cecil B. DeMille, in The Autobiography of DeMille (1959), p. 416
- Oh, how I loved the movies as a little girl. Particularly I loved Yvonne De Carlo—she was my favorite. Others, too, like Rita Hayworth, but I used to dream that I was Yvonne De Carlo. And I liked that little one—what was her name?—June Allyson, too. But for me there was only one Yvonne De Carlo.
- Sophia Loren, as quoted in Dick Kleiner's "Hollywood Today" column (July 30, 1965)
- I remember Yvonne with very warm and positive feelings. There was a warmth and sexiness which came out in everything she did, and that is what was irresistible to audiences. Like most top actresses, she needed direction and support, but her objective was always to be equal to the stars around her, especially the males.
- Ken Annakin, as quoted in L.A. Noir: Nine Dark Visions of the City of Angels (2004), p. 42–43
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