Yvonne De Carlo's biography

Yvonne De Carlo is 85 years old singer born at Vancouver. She was born on Friday 1st of September 1922. She is often nicknamed as PeggyTechnicolor Queen of HollywoodThe Most Beautiful Girl in the WorldQueen of Technicolor. According to year of birth 1922 she belongs to Greatest Generation. Birthday on 1st of September means she is Virgo. Virgo is an earthy sign of Zodiac Belt. People born under this Rising Sign are practical in nature. They believe in reality and represents themselves as a strong person.

She is native english speaker. She is citizen of Canada. Her primary profession is to be singer. You can know her also as dancer, film actor, television actor. She is recently known as stage actor.

Yvonne De Carlo's family

Yvonne De Carlo's ex spouse

Bob Morgan

Yvonne De Carlo and Bob Morgan have been together since 1955 for 18 years. He is known as actor. Her ex spouse was born on Sunday 3rd of October 1915 in Mount Carmel. Her ex spouse died on Monday 22nd of February 1999 in Woodland Hills. Bob Morgan was 77 years old, when this happened.

Yvonne De Carlo's schools

Detailed informations about her schools

Dropped out of King Edward High School at age 15 (which was her sophomore year), to focus more on her dance studies, hence, she attended B.C. School of Dancing.
Attended King Edward High School in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Attended Le Conte Middle School in Los Angeles, California.

Yvonne De Carlo's career

Her main focus is to be singer. She focuses on blues music.

How did Yvonne De Carlo die

She died on on Monday 8th of January 2007 when he was 85 years old at Los Angeles. Yvonne De Carlos death was caused by natural causes.

Awards and competitions

Yvonne De Carlo's Awards

She was awarded 2 Stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6124 Hollywood Boulevard; and for Television at 6715 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Received fifth star billing (after Heston, Brynner, Baxter, and Robinson) in Best Picture Academy Award nominee The Ten Commandments (1956), the most important and famous film of her career and one of her personal favorites.
She had always hoped to receive an Academy Award nomination for her acting. In 1957, Paramount Pictures submitted her name in the Best Supporting Actress category for her performance as Sephora in The Ten Commandments (1956).
She was a guest speaker/presenter at the 16th American Cinema Editors Awards in 1966.

Yvonne De Carlo's Nominations

Received fifth star billing (after Heston, Brynner, Baxter, and Robinson) in Best Picture Academy Award nominee The Ten Commandments (1956), the most important and famous film of her career and one of her personal favorites.

What Yvonne De Carlo has done for a first time

The film noir Brute Force (1947) features her first serious role.
In 1951, she became the first American actress and film star to make personal appearances in Israel.
Her first son, Bruce, was interviewed by author Nick Thomas for the book "Raised by the Stars: Interviews with 29 Children of Hollywood Actors" (2011).
The first Hollywood actress to play the leading role in a French film without an English-language version. The film was The Contessa's Secret (1954).

Yvonne De Carlo's quotes

I was named Margaret Yvonne - Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.
[on The Munsters (1964)] It meant security. It gave me a new, young audience I wouldn't have had otherwise. It made me "hot" again, which I wasn't for a while.
[on one of her scenes in Salome, Where She Danced (1945)] I came through these beaded curtains, wearing a Japanese kimono and a Japanese headpiece, and then performed a Siamese dance. Nobody seemed to know quite why.
[on being Yvonne De Carlo and Lily Munster at the same time] I guess I lead a double life, and I must admit I'm happy with both.
[on writing her own autobiography] If I could, I'd change a lot of things because I'm not proud of everything I've done in my life. But to those people who helped me, and there were a lot, I say, thank you. They're the reason I wrote this book.
Men, no matter what their promises, rarely leave their spouses - the louses.
[on The Munsters (1964)] I had moments of terror and fear that my public would not understand the makeup and all that. I really wondered if it was the right thing to do.
[on offers for guest appearances in television series, shortly after her husband's accident] Everybody has just been marvelous. Particularly because no one has suggested they were helping, but that I was right for the parts.
[on Lily Munster] I had misgivings when I was told about the role. After all, I didn't want to destroy whatever image I had established. So I asked the makeup man what the makeup was supposed to be.
I wear a tight, fitting gray dress. The kind of thing it would be nice to be buried in. A long train and long, bat - like things banging from the sleeves. And low cut.
[1971, when asked if she was nervous about appearing on a Broadway musical] I'm from Hollywood, I'm too dumb to be nervous about New York.
[1972, on her romance with Howard Hughes] Howard taught me how to land a plane and how to take off. But he never taught me anything about flying in between. He thought that I had learned the difficult parts, and that was enough.
[when asked in 1949 about Jock Mahoney's fame] What fame is he talking about? The only fame he has had is what he got by being seen with me!
[at the premiere of The Ten Commandments (1956)] Thanks to Mr. DeMille, I can get in some Class A pictures.
[when asked in 1945, "Who else is beautiful, like you, in Hollywood? Really stunning?"] That's a heck of a question to ask a lady! But if you insist - Merle Oberon and Hedy Lamarr.
[at the premiere of The Ten Commandments (1956)] There were a lot of old, old opinions against me in Hollywood which Mr. DeMille has changed.
I look terrible as a blonde. I once put on a Brunhilde wig at the studio and not one cameraman gave me a second look. I was terribly offended.
Yvonne is my middle name, and De Carlo was my mother's maiden name. I changed it because, well, I just wasn't the June Allyson type. It's not Spanish, it's Sicilian, honey.
[on Paris, France] They don't care about celebrities there; they are too busy enjoying life.
[on movie fans in Spain] Sometimes you find a crowd a block long following you.
Mr. DeMille had seen me in a picture called Sombrero (1953) which I made three and a half years ago in Mexico. He said, "That's the face I want [for the role of Sephora]'. Get me that face."
[on Salome, Where She Danced (1945)] All that "most beautiful girl" stuff was publicity of course. But there had been quite a few other actresses lined up for Salome.
As a child I wanted to be a writer and I made quite a bit of pocket money with my poems.
[1953] I can't dance with a man or even shake hands with him without flashbulbs popping and people speculating on whether we're engaged.
[on her Paramount Pictures contract] It didn't mean much really, but they saw I was eager so whenever they had to arrange a test for a player they sent me along to appear in it with him.
I just don't like a great number of parties. I always feel that I am missing something important in life when I stand around trying to talk about trivialities with people.
[on Walter Wanger] I think he first noticed me because he felt I looked a bit like Joan [Joan Bennett].
I enjoyed being in The Ten Commandments (1956). That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
I think Yvonne De Carlo was more famous than Lily. But I gained the younger audience through The Munsters (1964). And it was a steady job.
[on her 1987 autobiography] As far as my writing is concerned - I tried. But I think that when they have an established author, they usually use his stuff more. I put a lot of stuff in there, but they didn't use much of it.
I enjoyed the comedies with Alec Guinness, and I had a real great time with Peter Ustinov in Hotel Sahara (1951). I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.
[on the publisher's insistence that she include her romances in her autobiography] They insisted on that. I didn't want to be nasty. Burt Lancaster will laugh. Bob Stack's wife will laugh. I don't know if Bob will laugh.
[on her entire career] It's all been very exciting. I've loved it all.
[on Lily Munster's appearance] I had to think about that makeup because of the image that was made of me. But there is a bit of glamor. It wasn't like playing a beastie or a creature.
Burt Lancaster, Howard Duff and Ava Gardner - we were all there together at the beginning of our careers when [producer] Mark Hellinger was there at Universal.
He wants me to wear contact lenses to make my blue eyes brown. "But, Mr. DeMille," I complained, "there are some Bedouins with blue eyes." "That doesn't make any difference," he said, "you're to have brown eyes."
[after her concert tour of Israel] I saw the place where Christ turned the wine into water, and I couldn't help but think that some film company ought to go there and make the real story of the Bible.
[on her opera debut at the Hollywood Bowl] I had my nerve, too. When I saw all those people I was so scared I don't think I could have done it if it hadn't been for the wonderful conductor who kept encouraging me.
[after her concert tour of Israel] I speak French. I learn languages easily. I'm a good mimic, and if I hear any phrase in a language once I remember it. I learned a little Hebrew and incorporated it in my songs.
[1951] There are some very important people in Hollywood who are interested in me as an actress. I once did a picture called Criss Cross (1949). My performance did me more good with people. It showed that I had grown beyond the slave girl roles.
[1962] I used to be the Queen of Technicolor, with Maureen O'Hara. Well, I'll tell you something. I'm going back to Hollywood to make a film with Maureen. It's a Western comedy [McLintock! (1963)] and it's the two of us competing for John Wayne.
Band of Angels (1957) made money, but it was not the hit we all hoped it would be. It was said that the timing wasn't right to deal with racial issues.
[1945] I can do all my own singing and dancing - ballet, ballroom or novelty - and ride any horse as well as, I hope, act.
[on Maria Montez] We became very friendly, and I learned that Maria Montez was not to be judged by ordinary standards. She inhabited a self-designed world in which she was royalty, and this was something she sincerely believed.
Howard Hughes was one of the most important loves of my life.
[when Joe Franklin said, "You should write a book, Yvonne."] I did, and they turned it down 'cause it wasn't smutty enough. Yeah. Uh-huh. Well, I'll try to figure out a few lies like Shelley Winters did.
I know the value of glamour publicity. But being coupled and engaged - that's no good.
[on friend Ava Gardner] She's one of the few women in Hollywood that I like.
[1951] I'm a good actress. Anytime Hollywood wants me to prove it, I'm ready. I've never had believable parts, that's all. But I'm believable in my new picture, High Vermilion (1951). I play a real woman.
Albert Einstein would be the perfect companion. He's the only man who could go to the moon with me and know exactly where he was all the time.
[1953] I collect jewelry, furniture - and men. The world is suffering from a shortage of serious bachelors and it's hard to find a man earning more than I do.
I wanted good looks at first, but I found that most good-looking men are brainless. Now I go for character.
I was certainly seen as a sex symbol. But I was able to act also, and that's why I endured.
The glamour gal thing was a dilemma when you went for character parts.
[on the Broadway musical Follies] I auditioned for Stephen Sondheim and he wrote "I'm Still Here" for me, which became my theme song.
[1974] Divorces are very difficult financially, you know. But Bob and I are better friends than ever. We get along quite well.
[1974] I guess I should join the crows writing books about Hollywood. But I don't think one book would do it.

Yvonne De Carlo's body shape

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Yvonne De Carlo