I just noticed the bio on Wikipedia for Yvonne DeCarlo that she is dead.

September 1, 1922-January 10, 2007 it says.


Though I do not see any evidence that she has passed anywhere!

I'm not sure if that's real- the person who posted it seems to have warnings about posting false information for other entries. There are no articles anywhere else confirming this, either. We'll just have to wait a while and see if it's mentioned anywhere else.

When it comes to Wikipedia aka WICKEDpedia, you should NEVER RELY ON THEIR INFO, NEVER.

It's true, I just heard it on a local news flash. It's not on the wire yet, but should be soon, I'm looking for a link.

OMG!!!!!!!! This is sad.

Rest in peace, Yvonne!
You will be missed by all us Munster fans!

By BOB THOMAS
Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's slapstick comedy "The Munsters," has died. She was 84.

De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.

De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."

But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.

So sad to hear of Yvonne's passing... :(

I especially loved how she looked in TEN COMMANDMENTS. Such a lovely lady. Thank you Yvonne for the memories you left behind. :(

It's true, I just heard it on a local news flash. It's not on the wire yet, but should be soon, I'm looking for a link.

Here's a link: www.yahoo.com

I just saw the news on yahoo's front page too. So sad. In Stephen Cox's book, it said her health was failing from the author's last visit with the star. I'm sad to see 2 of The Munsters pass away in recent days. Her spirit and beauty live on in a show and character that we all adore so much.

We love you Yvonne! :)

CNN reporting also. Very sad day for Munster fans and all fans of classic TV. She will be always missed and forever loved.

Awwwww.....:(

RIP, Yvonne. Thanks for the memories.

...certainly wasn't in the best of health the last few years of her life, and perhaps passing away as quietly as she did was the best way to go. Unlike most of the residents at the Motion Picture & Television "County Home", she was still remembered by "Munsters" fans all over the world...and she knew it.
Whether people will remember the movies she appeared in for Universal and other studios over 60 years ago {"Salome, Where She Danced"?} is another matter....

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Very sad news, She was great as Lily and also in The Ten Commandments.

R.I.P Yvonne :(

Rest in Peace Yvonne

Rest in Peace

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Very sad news :(

How very sad. I loved her in the Munsters and in the Ten Commandments also. She's with Fred and Al now. R.I.P Yvonne. :(

This is very upseting news RIP Yvonne

A lovely woman, beautiful and talented. May God rest her soul.

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'The Ten Commandments' in 1956.



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'The Sea Devils', with Rock Hudson in 1953.


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With Burt Lancaster in 'Criss Cross' in 1949.

thanks for the pictures

:( R.I.P. Yvonne.

RIP Yvonne, you were a credit to your industry and will truly be missed by all of us.

Death is no stranger in my family. We long every day for the time we're together again with those we've lost.
Rest in peace, Yvonne DeCarlo.

We will miss you Lily!:(
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aww, so sad. I just lost my Mother last Month, and now this.:( Here's what I found:

Yvonne De Carlo, 'Munsters' star, dead
POSTED: 3:40 p.m. EST, January 10, 2007
Story Highlights• Actress Yvonne De Carlo, played Lily Munster, dead
• De Carlo also noted for "Ten Commandments"
• Actress often appeared in "sex-and-sand" B-movies, Westerns
• De Carlo had major role in Sondheim's "Follies"
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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in "The Ten Commandments" but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's "The Munsters," has died. She was 84.

De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday.

De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures and Westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s. Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's "Follies."

But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-1966 slapstick horror-movie spoof "The Munsters." The series (the name allegedly derived from "fun-monsters") offered a gallery of Universal Pictures grotesques, including Dracula and Frankenstein's monster, in a cobwebbed gothic setting.

Lily, vampire-like in a black gown, presided over the faux scary household and was a rock for her gentle but often bumbling husband, Herman, played by 6-foot-5-inch character actor Fred Gwynne (decked out as the Frankenstein monster).

While it lasted only two years, the series had a long life in syndication and resulted in two feature movies, "Munster Go Home!" (1966) and "The Munsters' Revenge" (1981, for TV).

At the series' end, De Carlo commented: "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."

"I think she will best remembered as the definitive Lily Munster. She was the vampire mom to millions of baby boomers. In that sense, she's iconic," Burns said Wednesday.

"But it would be a shame if that's the only way she is remembered. She was also one of the biggest beauty queens of the '40s and '50s, one of the most beautiful women in the world. This was one of the great glamour queens of Hollywood, one of the last ones."

De Carlo was able to sustain a long career by repeatedly reinventing herself. A longtime student of voice, she sang opera at the Hollywood Bowl. When movie roles became scarce, she ventured into stage musicals.

Her greatest stage triumph came on Broadway in 1971 with "Follies," which won the 1972 Tony award for best original musical score. She belted out Sondheim's showstopping number, "I'm Still Here," a former star's defiant recounting of the highs and lows of her life and career.

Much romance
Over the years, De Carlo augmented her stardom by shrewd use of publicity. Gossip columnists reported her dates with famous men. In her 1987 book, "Yvonne: An Autobiography," she listed 22 of her lovers, who included Howard Hughes, Burt Lancaster, Robert Stack, Robert Taylor, Billy Wilder, Aly Khan and an Iranian prince.

The Canadian-born De Carlo began her career with a parade of bit parts in films of the early 1940s, then emerged as a star in 1945 with "Salome -- Where She Danced," a routine movie about a dancer from Vienna who becomes a spy in the wild West.

She recalled her entrance in the film: "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."

Universal Pictures exploited her slightly exotic looks and a shape that looked ideal in a harem dress in such "sex-and-sand" programmers as "Song of Scheherazade," "Slave Girl," "Casbah" and "Desert Hawk."

The studio also employed her to add zest to Westerns, usually as a dance-hall girl or a gun-toting sharpshooter. Among the titles: "Frontier Gal," "Black Bart" (as Lola Montez), "River Lady," "Calamity Jane and Sam Bass" (as Calamity Jane) and "The Gal Who Took the West."

In 1956 she veered from her former image when Cecil B. DeMille chose her to play Sephora, wife to Charlton Heston's Moses in "The Ten Commandments." The following year she co-starred with Clark Gable and Sidney Poitier in "Band of Angels" as Gable's upper-class sweetheart who learns of her black forebears.

Among her later films: "McClintock" (starring John Wayne), "A Global Affair" (Bob Hope), "Hostile Guns" (George Montgomery), "The Power" (George Hamilton), "American Gothic" (Rod Steiger) and "Oscar" (Sylvester Stallone).

De Carlo was born Peggy Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, British Columbia, on September 1, 1922 (some sources say 1924). Abandoned by her father, she was raised by her mother in poor circumstances. The girl took dancing lessons and dropped out of high school to work in night clubs and local theaters. She continued dancing in clubs when she and her mother moved to Los Angeles.

Paramount Pictures signed her to a contract in 1942, and she adopted her middle name and her mother's middle name. Dropped by Paramount after 20 minor roles, she landed at Universal, which cast her as the B-picture version of the studio's sultry star Maria Montez.

In 1955, De Carlo married Bob Morgan, a topflight stunt man, and the marriage produced two sons, Bruce and Michael, as well as much-publicized separations and reconciliations.

During a stunt aboard a moving log train for "How the West Was Won," Morgan was thrown underneath the wheels. The accident cost him a leg, and for a time De Carlo abandoned her career to care for him. They later divorced.

In her late years, De Carlo lived in semiretirement near Solvang, north of Santa Barbara. Her son Michael died in 1997, and she suffered a stroke the following year.

RIP, Yvonne. Sad news indeed. :(

I wish TCM would show Yvonne's movies, that way people could see she was more than Lilly Munster. They should have released her movies after The Munsters season 2 was released.

R.I.P. Lily Munster and Yvonne. I will miss you.:(

I do have to say I was shock when I heard that Yvonne Passed Awau

Here's an article from "People"....