Tonight, on a Very Special Episode of The DataLounge, we present:

Loved her; love her still.

Steamin' seethin' sulkin' Glamor Puss.

Hole

I saw this at a swap meet a couple of years ago and didn't buy it.

I was a gayling in the balcony of the Colonial Theater in February of 1971:

I hope you’re not a feminist OP.

Same clip as above; this is NOT Broadway but is Yvonne outdoors in the Hollywood Hills, singing live, ( okay, maybe lip-synch during live broadcast ) in 1978, at a fete promoting the newly restored and dedicated Hollywood Sign , which is behind her.

Love that her anthem represents the sign, which was originally just a temporary promotional stunt which was meant to last only a year and a half - in 1923.

Also loving that her gown is a gilded variation of the last Lily dress she ever wore, up to that point.

Miss Yvonne de Carlo (née Margaret "Peggy" Middleton) was indeed very beautiful, and she used that beauty to land every handsome man in Hollywood. She would park her car at Jack's at the Beach in Santa Monica, and pick up young men for some wild times at her home. Among these men were up-and-comers Robert Wagner and Tony Curtis, who rather ungallantly wrote in his memoirs, "Everyone in town has had Yvonne de Carlo."

Oh, to have been Yvonne in those days.

Lily singing.

What about House of Wax?

Does this "house of wax" count?

R11, that is the most beautiful photograph of her that I've ever seen.

I think she's gorg at R1

Not afraid to be campy.

R17: that performance gave me a new appreciation of Elaine Stritch.

Her voice was terrible but her lip syncing was ridiculous.

Loved her but that was not one of her finer moments.

Yvonne could sing, introduced a Sondheim standard, was gorgeous, was a better actress than she’s given credit for, bed being a camp icon, and craved cock. It’s about time she was given her due on DL.

Her hair had.....

R34 her apparent bad lip synch is due entirely to YouTube's irritating tendency to fuck up the audio/ video synch.

I watched this as a kid and she and her vocals were perfectly synced .

TV Guide listed her appearance on that special so I sat through that whole boring goddamn thing and it dragged on for fucking EVER. Finally, they had Yvonne on at the end, as part of the Big Reveal of the new, larger, sturdier Hollywood sign.

R37, do you still have your pencil you used to dial the phone?

Oh stop, that's so funny and original, wherever do you come up with such witticism, my sides are aching, you should write this stuff down, you kill me, etc etc rinse and repeat, zzzzzzz.......

A friend said she was the most beautiful woman in Hollywood

........and that she would always be the first person in the room to tell you about it.

She deserves her own DL shrine.

[quote]Not afraid to be campy.

AFTER she was a sloe-eyed vamp and someone's mother.

She's sincere.

Oh poo. I know you aren't the one.

Sophia, Yvonne, Gina

Tell me about Yvonne, eldergays. I only know her from The Munsters and her appearances in some really trashy exploitation and horror movies in the 70s and 80s. Was she ever A- or even B-list? In her pre-Lily Munster pics she looks a bit like a young Suzanne Pleshette.

Yvonne de Carlo was a glamour girl / pin-up starlet of post-war America, who achieved moderate stardom in her day, but never quite reached the enduring superstar legacy of fellow glamour girls Rita Hayworth and Ava Gardner. This may have been the fact that she was signed to Universal Pictures, which concentrated heavily on low budget horror films and Abbott and Costello / Francis the Talking Mule / Ma and Pa Kettle serials. Though Universal put de Carlo in many lavish technicolor productions, garnering her the title "Queen of Technicolor" for several years, the quality of those productions weren't exactly stellar or significantly memorable as the decades progressed. De Carlo's biggest movie success turned out to be "The Ten Commandments," shot for Paramount Pictures.

De Carlo's only marriage was to Hollywood stuntman Robert Morgan, who would lose a leg after a stunt gone wrong on the set of "How the West Was Won" (1962). However, the studio, MGM, assumed no responsiblity for the accident, forcing the Morgans to incur large debts from mounting medical bills, rehabilitation, and loss of income. Nearly bankrupt, the aging glamour queen would returned to Universal in 1964 to do "The Munsters," which would prove to be her biggest career legacy.

In his bio, Langella claims to have bedded her. I never cared for her. The voice was not pleasant or intelligent. Most of my favorites are dark haired, but she always looked,like a cow chewing its cud.

As a gayling, I much preferred this Yvonne.

She was on track to co-star in MGM's 1955 remake of Don Juan. But then the star's wife/agent ruined it for everyone.

Yvonne in the prime of her Second Act, 1965, smack in the middle of her "Munsters" work.

She's gorgeous, stacked, has all the right moves, and is definitely not Lily in this scene.

Bizarrely, her voice was dubbed by someone else, and badly.

Between takes

Between takes

Between takes

I'M STILL HERE.

As beautiful as Lily is, this is Yvonne at her most beautiful.

Costume sketch for Yvonne De Carlo in The San Francisco Story

I don't have my copy of Shelley Winters' autobiography handy, but wasn't Yvonne the starlet who double-dated with Shelley, Errol Flynn, and Clark Gable for a one-night stand?

She's Still Here!

R61 that is juicy. She was clearly very fond of Gable and has stated as much in interviews.

Here's a very short interview clip where Yvonne talks about working with Clark Gable ( but not anything more romantic ).

She looks great.

Trailer for [italic]Band of Angels[/italic]

Wow. Turgid. YDC looks gorgeous, of course.

A rare photo as Lily, showing her lovely profile. She is wearing a rarely-seen long necklace, which was quickly replaced by the two different bat necklaces she wore.

The photo was later used as reference for this book illustration.

From the Munsters era

"...cow chewing its cud."

R48, exactly! Profoundly bovine. Bad voice. Deadly dull.

Wow, sweetie, that's a little harsh.

Wow

She wrote an autobiography---she describes going out wiuth seemingly every eligibel bachelor in Hollywood, but usuallyy only once. My guess was halitosis or else she was the biggest punch board in Hollywood.

She was not a horrible actress but not a great one--she's rather mannered as Lily Munster but helped put over the sometimes labored dialogue. The show wasn't quite as sophisticated in its satire as The Addams Family. as mentioned upthread, she worked for Universal which was probably the "least disntinguished" of the major studios. Even Columbia turned out more A-list pictures.

She helped launch Tony Curtis' career---her dancing scene with him in some cheap costume drama led to a flood of fan letters for him., but he was probably right that everyone had her.

The last thing I remember seeing with her was some awful cheapie from the 1980s with John Ireland that basically was soft core porn.

Looks dim.

Maybe she turned down Curtis, and his revenge was to spread lies about her. He was that low.

Yes but she admitted to going out with just about everyone. I'll bet she was thankful for penicillin.

In retrospect, she was fairly unapologetic when recalling her romantic liaisons. She knew what she liked.

Coincidently, the most recent podcast of "You Must Remember This" just did a story on Yvonne De Carlo. Link below.

Warning, the hostess does really bad old-timey voices, which bothers many, many people. But if you can get over that, her research and information are stellar.

She probably competed with Nancy Davis (Reagan) for most blow jobs in Hollywood.

Most blowjobs? She was fucking them. RJ wrote how there was a well known supermarket for picking up "haunches of venison" (to borrow Alan Bates' phrase). Yvonne would arrive in her convertible and take her pick right there in the parking lot.

She was a whore and it never did much to advance her career.

R81: Actually, she was rather coy and acted rather saddedned that no one went out with her after the dirst date/boink.

Well there's that in her favor. But she just seemed very pedestrian to me.

She's pretty...

Nothing gets past you!

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I always thought she was incredibly beautiful. She started gaining weight after Follies and it definitely boxed her into the dotty old lady character type, but she was great in those movies, too. She's really wonderful in a movie called American Gothic with Rod Steiger from the late 80's. They're crazy religious freaks who live in the woods with their 3 kids who are all in their 40's but act like they're under 10. It's nuts!

Silent Scream is another good horror flick she did in the late 70's/early 80's. It's more of a glorified cameo, but she's fun in it.

Going crazy in American Gothic.

She had a certain niche...

Contract player who did B-pictures at a C-list studios. Her later work was mostly on par with that or worse. Satan's Cheerleaders is a good example.