Yvonne De Carlo is probably best known for her role as Lily Munster in the television sitcom The Munsters. Before that, she had a “higher” role as that of Moses’ wife, Zipporah, in The Ten Commandments.

Yvonne was born September 1, 1922 in Canada as Margaret (”Peggy”) Yvonne Middleton. At the age of fifteen she was taken to Hollywood by her mother where she won the title Miss Venice Beach in 1938. Her big break came in 1945 when she starred in the film Salome, Where She Danced. She has starred in various movies with Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable, Sidney Poitier and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.

She took the role of Lily to help pay for her husband’s medical bills (he was a stunt man). She never realized at the time that it would become her most famous role!

Yvonne suffered a stroke in 1987 and took up residence in the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. She passed away at the age of 84 on January 8, 2007.

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