Yvonne De Carlo Biography

Fast Facts

• When she was 15 her mother took her to Hollywood to break into show business
• Unsuccessful, they returned to Canada where she began dancing at night clubs
• Was named Miss Venice Beach in a 1941 beauty pageant
• Took the role of Lily Munster to help pay for medical bills after her husband, stuntman Bob Morgan, was injured
• In 1971, she starred in the original Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies; he wrote the classic song "I'm Still Here" just for her
• Reprised the role of Lily Munster for the 1981 made-for-TV movie The Munsters' Revenge
• Published Yvonne: An Autobiography in 1987, in which she listed 22 of her lovers including Howard Hughes, Burt Lancaster, Robert Stack, Robert Taylor, Billy Wilder and Aly Khan
• Made a cameo in the 1995 made-for-TV movie Here Come the Munsters, one of her last on-screen appearances before her death in 2007