Inspiration to an entire generation of drag queens, Yvonne DeCarlo died yesterday.
R.I.P., Lily
Thursday, January 11, 2007 by Author
Inspiration to an entire generation of drag queens, Yvonne DeCarlo died yesterday.
Inspiration to an entire generation of drag queens, Yvonne DeCarlo died yesterday.
18 comments:
I simply adored Yvonne. She had the acting chops to be convincing as Moses' wife, the humor to create a loveable character in Lily, and skills to make it on Broadway after her cinematic career ended. The world today is a dimmer place.
And she is...who???
Anon. 9:13, you are obviously too young to know. 60's/70's TV show the Munsters. She was mom. It was a sendup of all those happy little family comedies. She was cooler than any mom dared to be! I think, and if I am wrong please correct me, that the Munster's was the first TV show to actually show a married couple laying in the same bed. Before that the censors made them all sleep in singles, a la Lucy and Ricky.
i thought she was the most gorgeous thing i'd ever seen when i was a bitty girl.
i used to bobby-pin my mother's black scarf to my head, don her long, elegant black dress, and dance around the house believing ~ knowing ~ i was as elegant as lily.
my goodness -- i thought she kicked it about 15 years ago.
to anonymous 9:13: she was Lily Munster on the Munsters, a 1960s spoof sitcom, where all the members of the family (who looked like characters from monster movies) tried to fit in in a standard sitcom neighborhood.
before that, her career was mostly playing "exotics."
Another Goth icon gone to the ether.
Sleep sweet, Dark Princess.
Lisette
I believe you are spot on! I don't recall where I read that, but its one of those useless bits of trivia that floats around my brain.
Years ago when I was a dancer, my gay boys would fawn and fawn over her. I never really appreciated her until they woke me up.
A classy actress that nobody has anything bad to say about. Rest in peace Yvonne...
Did you see the photos of her when she was younger? She was STUNNING! Well, RIP, our dear Lily Munster. Another piece of my childhood is gone...
kath
Check her out in "Criss Cross" from 1948 with the luscious Burt Lancaster, a film noir thriller that was one of her few straight dramatic roles.
She also had her big success on Broadway introducing "I'm Still Here" in Stephen Somdheim's "Follies". There wasn't anyone better to belt out a song about being a survivor!
Brian
Gone but not forgotten...Thanks for bringing this to our attention!
I thought it wasn't until "The Brady Bunch" that a married couple was shown in the same bed. I remember seeing an interview with Florence Henderson where she said that.
Hmm....
"And she is...who???"
You need to leave. Now.
Seriously.
From Wikipedia
"Despite popular belief, Herman and Lily Munster were not the first television couple to share the same bed. That honor belongs to "Mary Kay and Johnny", which aired in 1947. Mary Kay and Johnny Stearns were husband and wife in "real life." Samantha and Darrin Stephens of "Bewitched" were the first live-action TV couple, with the actors not married to each other in "real life," to sleep in a double bed. The episode in question, "Little Pitchers Have Big Fears," aired on October 22, 1964. "The Munsters" showed Herman and Lily first sharing a bed in the episode "Autumn Croakus" on November 26, 1964. [1]" I stand corrected.
Wasn't there at least one episode of "I Love Lucy" with Fred and Ethel sharing a bed? I know for sure they had a double, as opposed to Lucy & Ricky's twin set. Maybe they just were never in it at the same time.
well is morticia, at least, still alive?
BigAssBelle said...
well is morticia, at least, still alive?
If by Morticia you mean the original from the Addam's Family 60's series, Carolyn Jones, sorry to say she went in 1983, aged 53.
Yvonne DeCarlo also starred with Burt Lancaster in a classic film noir, "Criss Cross."
I believe she was also a lesbian...sigh...the last of the out and about mohicans, so to speak.
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