[33] She was given more solo routines and also appeared in her first soundie. Just to look pretty on the screen as a romantic lead is probably all right, but – so what? De Carlo was given a small role in Brute Force (1947), a prison movie starring Burt Lancaster and produced by Mark Hellinger. [68] Tony Curtis made his debut in the movie, in a scene dancing with De Carlo.[69]. ", 1963). [103] They married in 1955, and their first son, Bruce, was born in 1956. The Los Angeles Times said about the latter that De Carlo featured in "an improbable sequence pulled off with verve by the still glamorous star. "[114] Years later, in 1987, she said: "I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily, but I gained the younger audience through The Munsters. She guest starred on shows like Fantasy Island. 1 box-office hit of the 1950s. By the early 1940s, she and her mother had moved to Los Angeles, where De Carlo participated in beauty contests and worked as a dancer in nightclubs. Though she first got into pictures in B-movies and westerns for Universal Studios, the British Columbia-born De Carlo played the wife of Moses (Charlton Heston) in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 Biblical blockbuster, The Ten Commandments, which was the No. The Canadian-born De Carlo began her career with a parade of bit parts in films of the early 1940s, then emerged as a star in 1945 with “Salome — Where She Danced,” a routine movie about a dancer from Vienna who becomes a spy in the wild West. Orchestrated by future film composer John Williams under the pseudonym "John Towner", the album contains ten tracks, "End of a Love Affair", "In the Blue of Evening", "I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)", "Am I Blue? "She has these outrageous costumes—six of them—and it's just a small part", De Carlo told Los Angeles Times. Dropped by Paramount after 20 minor roles, she landed at Universal, which cast her as the B-picture version of the studio’s sultry star Maria Montez. After the show's cancellation, she reprised her role as Lily Munster in the Technicolor film Munster, Go Home! (1966) and the television film The Munsters' Revenge (1981). Yvonne De Carlo, the 1950s screen beauty who became a household name in the ’60s as Lily Munster on the CBS sitcom The Munsters, died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & … Later she toured in Cactus Flower. It is claimed that she had affairs with Mohammad Reza Shah of Iran during the late 1940s. In that sense, she’s iconic,” Burns said Wednesday. In it, she danced, and cast off several chiffon veils before being carried away by a gorilla. De Carlo was able to sustain a long career by repeatedly reinventing herself. Nobody seemed to know quite why.”, Universal Pictures exploited her slightly exotic looks and a shape that looked ideal in a harem dress in such “sex-and-sand” programmers as “Song of Scheherazade,” “Slave Girl,” “Casbah” and “Desert Hawk.”, The studio also employed her to add zest to Westerns, usually as a dance-hall girl or a gun-toting sharpshooter.

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