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Yvonne De Carlo
Margaret Yvonne Middleton, known professionally as Yvonne De Carlo, was a Canadian-American actress, dancer and singer. She became a Hollywood film star and sex symbol in the 1940s and 1950s, made several musical recordings, and later acted on television and stage.
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entertainment · Canadian-born American actress, dancer and singer (1922–2007) · singer · dancer · film actor · television actor · stage actor · actor · also Yvonne De Carlo, Margaret Yvonne Middleton, Peggy Yvonne Middleton, Peggy Middleton, Yvonne de Carlo, Yvonne deCarlo
Born 1 September 1922 · Died 8 January 2007 · Q286339
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2026· 4 entries
“Mine is a small part—but funny.”
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“Howard Hughes was one of the most important loves of my life”
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Public attention spiked: 4,198 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 1,123, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Yvonne De Carlo
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2022· 1 entry
The Bakersfield Californian: Remembering Yvonne De Carlo at 100
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2007· 5 entries
The Hollywood Reporter: ‘Munsters’ star Yvonne De Carlo dies at 84
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Died 2007-01-08.
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Her son Bruce revealed that, before her death, she played supporting roles in two independent films that have yet to be released
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“But I like to do small things now.”
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Was nominated for the "Who Knew They Could Sing
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2005· 1 entry
Was one of the 250 female Hollywood legends nominated for the American Film Institute's 100 Years
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1987· 3 entries
Said: "I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily, but I gained the younger audience through The Munsters
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“Yvonne De Carlo Reminds The World There Was Life Before Lily Munster”
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Won the International Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Show (Fantafestival) Award for Best Actress for American Gothic
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1981· 1 entry
Moved to a ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley, near Solvang, California
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1975· 1 entry
“A girl no longer, but . . . De Carlo's a beauty still”
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1971· 3 entries
And ran for 522 performances, closing on July 1, 1972
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Played Carlotta Campion and introduced the popular song "I'm Still Here" in the Broadway production of the Stephen Sondheim musical Follies
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“Three Show‐Biz Girls and How They Grew”
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1966· 2 entries
Was named honorary mayor of North Hollywood, Los Angeles
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Was honored by the City of Niagara Falls, Canada, for "having created good will for her native country and given inspiration to others
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1964· 1 entry
Received a second BoxOffice Blue Ribbon Award for McLintock
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1960· 1 entry
Was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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1957· 2 entries
Received a BoxOffice Blue Ribbon Award for The Ten Commandments (1956)
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Won a Laurel Award for Topliner Supporting Actress for The Ten Commandments (1956)
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1955· 2 entries
But he was married and had a daughter, and De Carlo had "no intention of causing that marriage to break up
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And their first son, Bruce, was born in 1956
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1954· 1 entry
After the success of The Captain's Paradise, she expressed a desire to do more comedy:
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1951· 2 entries
De Carlo accepted an offer to open the thirtieth season of the Hollywood Bowl singing the breeches role of Prince Orlovsky in five performances of the opera Die Fledermaus (The Bat), from July 10 to 14
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During her tour of Israel, she visited the village of Cana: "I saw the place where Christ turned the water into wine, and I couldn't help but think that some film company ought to go there and make the real story of the
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1950· 2 entries
De Carlo purchased an eleven-room ranch house on five-and-a-half acres of "hilly woodland" on Coldwater Canyon Drive in Studio City, Los Angeles, above Beverly Hills
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The Camera Club of America voted her "Sexnicolor Queen of the Screen" "for putting more sex [appeal] into Technicolor than any other star
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1947· 1 entry
Max Factor's chief hair stylist, Fred Fredericks, named her one of the 10 "best tressed" film actresses
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1946· 2 entries
Exhibitors voted De Carlo the ninth-most promising "star of tomorrow
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Variety named her one of the three "top new Hollywood stars" of 1945, along with Lizabeth Scott and Lauren Bacall: "Miss de Carlo is definitely a personality
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1945· 2 entries
“Yvonne De Carlo Chosen for Role, Over '20,000 Beautiful Girls'”
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After the release of her second film, Frontier Gal, De Carlo returned to Vancouver and attended a celebration held in her honor at her former workplace, the Palomar nightclub, where she was introduced to billionaire Howa
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1943· 1 entry
When she was under contract to Paramount Pictures
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1942· 1 entry
Signed a three-year contract with Paramount Pictures, where she got uncredited bit parts in important films
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1940· 1 entry
Won second place in the Miss Venice beauty contest, and placed fifth in that year's Miss California competition (and can be seen in that pageant at 0:36 of the British Pathé film "A Matter of Figures")
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1922· 1 entry
Born 1922-09-01.
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1897· 1 entry
Had four children, and settled in Canada
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