{"id":809,"date":"2007-01-11T13:40:18","date_gmt":"2007-01-11T13:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=809"},"modified":"2007-01-11T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T13:40:18","slug":"yvonne_decarlo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/01\/11\/yvonne_decarlo\/","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne DeCarlo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another of those familiar faces I grew up with, Yvonne DeCarlo of Munsters<\/i> fame, died Monday, aged 84. Here<\/a> is one of the more comprehensive obits for her.<\/p>\n

The Munsters<\/i><\/a> wasn’t great<\/i> television — personally, I’ve always thought the show’s contemporary rival The Addams Family<\/i> was smarter, sexier, and funnier — but it was reliably entertaining, making up for its pedestrian storylines with a charming cast and some fairly nifty production design. (I’ve always loved the staircase with the secret trapdoor leading down to the basement, and the two Munster cars<\/a> custom-built by the legendary George Barris<\/a> were the apotheosis of a 12-year-old boy’s automotive fantasies.) As Lily Munster, the wife\/mother character in what was really a basic family sitcom with a strange-looking family, DeCarlo mostly served as straight-woman to Fred Gwynne’s Herman and Al Lewis as Grandpa. However, she occasionally got some good one-liners of her own, and while she didn’t display the same dangerous brand of sexuality as Morticia Addams (played in her TV incarnation by Carolyn Jones), Lily was a beautiful woman. Er, vampire. Whatever.<\/p>\n

Looking around the ‘net, I see that Bijou Bob<\/a> has a brief tribute<\/a> to DeCarlo, which includes a sultry photo of her in one of her B-movie roles years before Lily Munster, and Jaime J. Weinman<\/a> posts a YouTube clip of her with Burt Lancaster in Criss Cross<\/i>, as well as an audio clip of her singing in Stephen Sondheim’s Follies<\/i>. And here is the famous opening title sequence for The Munsters<\/i>, featuring Lily bidding farewell to her various family members as they head out for their day. Watch for that trapdoor I mentioned; someday, I will<\/i> have one of those…<\/p>\n

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Another of those familiar faces I grew up with, Yvonne DeCarlo of Munsters fame, died Monday, aged 84. Here is one of the more comprehensive obits for her. The Munsters wasn’t great television — personally, I’ve always thought the show’s contemporary rival The Addams Family was smarter, sexier, and funnier — but it was reliably […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}