Yvonne De Carlo

Trivia

• Miss Venice Beach 1938.
• Took the part of Lily on "The Munsters" (1964) to help pay husband Bob Morgan's medical bills. Morgan, an actor/stuntman, had suffered near-fatal injuries while filming How the West Was Won (1962). By her own admission, Ms. De Carlo never imagined, at the time, that Lily Munster would become her most famous role.
• She chose her own stage name by using her middle name and her mother's maiden name of De Carlo.
• Best known as Lily Munster in "The Munsters" (1964).
• Guest-starred in the pilot episode of "Bonanza" (1959) as gold rush entertainer Lotta Crabtree.
• She was the producers' second choice to play Lily Munster, after Joan Marshall was dropped from consideration for the role of Phoebe Marshall.
• Became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
• Was trained in opera and was a former chorister at St. Paul Angelica Church in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, when she was a little girl.
• Called off her engagement to Jock Mahoney after she suffered a miscarriage.
• Before she starred in "The Munsters" (1964) that same year, she was deeply in debt, her film career was over and was suffering from depression.