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01-10-2007, 06:54 PM
Film, TV star Yvonne De Carlo dies in L.A. at 84
Actress Yvonne De Carlo, known to one generation as Moses' wife in C.B. De Mille's "The Ten Commandments" and to another as the wife on television's hit show "The Munsters," has died at age 84, a source said on Wednesday.
De Carlo, who last appeared on screen in a 1995 television
production, died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Fund's Retirement Home in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, the source said. A spokeswoman for the home had no comment.
Born Peggy Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was best known for her television role on the popular 1960s CBS sitcom "The Munsters" playing the ghoulish wife Lily Munster opposite Fred Gwynne as her Frankenstein monster-like husband Herman.
Actress Yvonne De Carlo, known to one generation as Moses' wife in C.B. De Mille's "The Ten Commandments" and to another as the wife on television's hit show "The Munsters," has died at age 84, a source said on Wednesday.
De Carlo, who last appeared on screen in a 1995 television
production, died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Fund's Retirement Home in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, the source said. A spokeswoman for the home had no comment.
Born Peggy Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was best known for her television role on the popular 1960s CBS sitcom "The Munsters" playing the ghoulish wife Lily Munster opposite Fred Gwynne as her Frankenstein monster-like husband Herman.