My Single Mom Life

TV's 'Lily Munster' Yvonne De Carlo Dies At 84

(CBS) LOS ANGELES Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's slapstick comedy "The Munsters," has died. She was 84.

De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Woodland Hills, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.

De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."

But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 horror movie spoof "The Munsters." In the mid-1960's the Canadian born actress co-starred with Fred Gwynne in the series that told the story of a decidedly unconventional family living at 1313 Mockingbird Lane.

To me, Lily was my first view of the "outside the norm" mother.
She raised her kids her way with that big oaf of a husband Herman, by her side.
Her kids were happy and well adjusted despite the obvious differences in their family and others.
She was classy and graceful.

Anyway, Yvonne, rest in peace cool mom. You made it ok for the rest of us to be who we are today even if you were just a tv character.