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Yvonne De Carlo (1922-2007) was an Canadian-American actress. De Carlo became an internationally famous Hollywood film star in the 1940s and 1950s, made several recordings, and later acted on television and stage. Her role as Lilly Munster on The Munsters (1964-66) was easily her most famous television role. Her IMDb page shows over 125 acting credits from 1940 to 1995. This page will rank Yvonne De Carlo movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.
Yvonne De Carlo Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
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| 1956 | The Ten Commandments (1956) AA Best Picture Nom |
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| 1947 | Brute Force (1947) |  |
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| 1963 | McLintock! (1963) | |
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| 1947 | Song of Scheherazade (1947) |  |
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| 1949 | Criss Cross (1949) | |
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| 1957 | Band of Angels (1957) | |
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| 1947 | Slave Girl (1947) | |
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| 1951 | Tomahawk (1951) | |
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| 1945 | Salome, Where She Danced (1945) | |
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| 1979 | The Silent Scream (1979) |  |
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| 1948 | Casbah (1948) | |
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| 1952 | Scarlet Angel (1952) |  |
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| 1952 | Hurricane Smith (1952) | |
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| 1954 | Border River (1954) | |
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| 1951 | Silver City (1951) | |
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| 1945 | Frontier Gal (1945) | |
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| 1948 | River Lady (1948) | |
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| 1953 | The Captain's Paradise (1953) | |
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| 1951 | Hotel Sahara (1951) | |
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| 1954 | Passion (1954) | |
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| 1964 | Law of the Lawless (1964) | |
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| 1950 | Buccaneer's Girl (1950) | |
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| 1949 | The Gal Who Took the West (1949) | |
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| 1952 | The San Francisco Story (1952) | |
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| 1953 | Sombrero (1953) | |
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| 1949 | Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949) |  |
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| 1966 | Munster, Go Home! (1966) | |
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| 1980 | The Man With Bogart's Face (1980) | |
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| 1956 | Raw Edge (1956) | |
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| 1948 | Black Bart (1948) | |
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| 1971 | The Seven Minutes (1971) | |
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| 1953 | Sea Devils (1953) | |
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| 1953 | Fort Algiers (1953) | |
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| 1968 | The Power (1968) |  |
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| 1987 | American Gothic (1987) | |
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| 1959 | Timbutku (1959) |  |
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| 1981 | Liar's Moon (1981) | |
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| 1976 | Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) | |
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| 1979 | Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979) | |
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| 1991 | Oscar (1991) | |
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| 1990 | Mirror Mirror (1990) |  |
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| 1964 | A Global Affair (1964) | |
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| 1968 | Arizona Bushwhackers (1968) |  |
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| 1975 | It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time (1975) | |
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| 1977 | Satan's Cheerleaders (1977) | |
Yvonne De Carlo Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.
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- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Yvonne De Carlo movie received.
- Sort Yvonne De Carlo movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | ||||
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| R | Movie (Year) | UMR Co-Star Links | Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) | Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) | B.O. Rank by Year | Review | Oscar Nom / Win | UMR Score | S |
| 1 | The Ten Commandments (1956) AA Best Picture Nom |
Charlton Heston & Yul Brynner |
72.00 | 1,412.0 | 3,423.10 | 1 | 85 | 07 / 01 | 99.4 | |
| 2 | Brute Force (1947) | Burt Lancaster & Charles Bickford |
5.90 | 173.2 | 173.20 | 53 | 84 | 00 / 00 | 96.5 | |
| 3 | McLintock! (1963) | John Wayne & Maureen O'Hara |
12.90 | 162.1 | 162.10 | 22 | 77 | 00 / 00 | 93.8 | |
| 6 | Song of Scheherazade (1947) | Eve Arden | 5.70 | 165.4 | 165.40 | 57 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 90.0 | |
| 4 | Criss Cross (1949) | Burt Lancaster & Dan Duryea |
4.00 | 101.0 | 101.00 | 90 | 82 | 00 / 00 | 89.3 | |
| 6 | Band of Angels (1957) | Clark Gable & Sidney Poitier |
7.10 | 137.5 | 173.50 | 29 | 69 | 00 / 00 | 88.6 | |
| 7 | Slave Girl (1947) | Broderick Crawford | 5.40 | 157.5 | 157.50 | 60 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 84.9 | |
| 8 | Tomahawk (1951) | Rock Hudson & Van Heflin |
5.70 | 123.2 | 123.20 | 49 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 83.2 | |
| 9 | Salome, Where She Danced (1945) | Walter Wanger | 4.50 | 142.4 | 244.00 | 79 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 80.3 | |
| 11 | The Silent Scream (1979) | Cameron Mitchell | 20.80 | 89.3 | 89.30 | 44 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 76.4 | |
| 10 | Casbah (1948) | Peter Lorre | 2.90 | 77.5 | 77.50 | 107 | 63 | 01 / 00 | 76.1 | |
| 12 | Scarlet Angel (1952) | Rock Hudson | 4.20 | 81.7 | 81.70 | 81 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 66.6 | |
| 13 | Hurricane Smith (1952) | John Ireland | 3.30 | 64.0 | 64.00 | 113 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 63.0 | |
| 14 | Border River (1954) | Joel McCrea | 2.60 | 62.0 | 62.00 | 110 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 62.9 | |
| 15 | Silver City (1951) | Barry Fitzgerald | 3.10 | 66.2 | 66.20 | 119 | 55 | 00 / 00 | 61.7 | |
| 17 | Frontier Gal (1945) | Rod Cameron | 1.70 | 54.2 | 54.20 | 124 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 60.7 | |
| 18 | River Lady (1948) | Dan Duryea | 1.40 | 37.8 | 37.80 | 156 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 58.5 | |
| 16 | The Captain's Paradise (1953) | Alec Guinness | 0.70 | 12.2 | 12.20 | 221 | 69 | 01 / 00 | 57.2 | |
| 19 | Hotel Sahara (1951) | Peter Ustinov | 1.60 | 34.8 | 34.80 | 163 | 62 | 00 / 00 | 56.1 | |
| 21 | Passion (1954) | Cornel Wilde | 1.60 | 37.8 | 37.80 | 134 | 60 | 00 / 00 | 55.0 | |
| 20 | Law of the Lawless (1964) | Dale Robertson | 2.30 | 26.0 | 26.00 | 105 | 64 | 00 / 00 | 54.9 | |
| 22 | Buccaneer's Girl (1950) | Elsa Lanchester | 1.20 | 27.7 | 27.70 | 174 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 54.0 | |
| 23 | The Gal Who Took the West (1949) | Charles Coburn | 1.30 | 33.1 | 33.10 | 172 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 53.4 | |
| 24 | The San Francisco Story (1952) | Joel McCrea & |
2.40 | 47.1 | 47.10 | 139 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 53.3 | |
| 27 | Sombrero (1953) | Ricardo Montalban & Pier Angeli |
3.20 | 58.3 | 133.90 | 118 | 52 | 00 / 00 | 51.5 | |
| 26 | Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949) | Norman Lloyd | 1.70 | 41.7 | 41.70 | 154 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 49.8 | |
| 25 | Munster, Go Home! (1966) | Fred Gwynne & John Carradine |
2.10 | 20.1 | 20.10 | 98 | 63 | 00 / 00 | 49.3 | |
| 28 | The Man With Bogart's Face (1980) | Robert Sacchi & George Raft |
1.40 | 5.8 | 5.80 | 150 | 67 | 00 / 00 | 47.9 | |
| 29 | Raw Edge (1956) | John Gavin | 1.20 | 23.9 | 23.90 | 164 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 47.3 | |
| 30 | Black Bart (1948) | Dan Duryea | 1.10 | 28.7 | 28.70 | 171 | 59 | 00 / 00 | 46.5 | |
| 31 | The Seven Minutes (1971) | Tom Selleck & John Carradine |
2.60 | 17.0 | 17.00 | 98 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 43.1 | |
| 32 | Sea Devils (1953) | Rock Hudson & Directed by Raoul Walsh |
2.10 | 38.2 | 38.20 | 162 | 54 | 00 / 00 | 42.7 | |
| 32 | Fort Algiers (1953) | Raymond Burr | 1.50 | 27.8 | 27.80 | 185 | 56 | 00 / 00 | 40.9 | |
| 33 | The Power (1968) | George Hamilton | 1.90 | 15.4 | 15.40 | 122 | 58 | 00 / 00 | 34.6 | |
| 35 | American Gothic (1987) | Rod Steiger & Michael J. Pollard |
0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 251 | 61 | 00 / 00 | 30.9 | |
| 37 | Timbutku (1959) | Victor Mature | 1.50 | 27.7 | 27.70 | 126 | 49 | 00 / 00 | 24.7 | |
| 35 | Liar's Moon (1981) | Matt Dillon & Broderick Crawford |
0.10 | 0.2 | 0.20 | 181 | 57 | 00 / 00 | 23.7 | |
| 37 | Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) | Dennis Morgan & Shecky Greene |
3.60 | 18.4 | 18.40 | 94 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 22.9 | |
| 39 | Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979) | Stuart Whitman & John Ireland |
3.80 | 16.3 | 16.30 | 90 | 51 | 00 / 00 | 21.9 | |
| 40 | Oscar (1991) | Sylvester Stallone & Kirk Douglas |
23.60 | 60.3 | 60.30 | 56 | 35 | 00 / 00 | 21.7 | |
| 41 | Mirror Mirror (1990) | Karen Black | 0.10 | 0.1 | 0.10 | 240 | 53 | 00 / 00 | 16.6 | |
| 42 | A Global Affair (1964) | Bob Hope & Michèle Mercier |
2.90 | 32.7 | 32.70 | 87 | 39 | 00 / 00 | 11.8 | |
| 43 | Arizona Bushwhackers (1968) | Howard Keel | 0.60 | 5.1 | 5.10 | 162 | 43 | 00 / 00 | 7.1 | |
| 44 | It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time (1975) | Anthony Newley & John Candy |
0.20 | 0.8 | 0.80 | 154 | 34 | 00 / 00 | 1.6 | |
| 45 | Satan's Cheerleaders (1977) | John Carradine & John Ireland |
0.10 | 0.7 | 0.70 | 153 | 33 | 00 / 00 | 1.3 |
Best IMDb Trivia On Yvonne De Carlo
1. Margaret Yvonne Middleton was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1922. Her mother’s maiden name was De Carlo. So take her middle name and her mom’s maiden name and you get Yvonne De Carlo.
2. In 1940, Yvonne De Carlo won second place in the Miss Venice beauty contest and placed fifth in that year’s Miss California competition. She was noticed by a booking agent and quickly began appearing in many uncredited roles in the early to mid-1940s.
3. Yvonne De Carlo nicknames: Peggy, Technicolor Queen of Hollywood, The Most Beautiful Girl in the World and finally Queen of Technicolor
4. Took the role of Lily Munster on The Munsters (1964) to help pay husband Bob Morgan’s medical bills. Morgan, an actor and stuntman, had suffered near-fatal injuries while filming How the West Was Won (1962). By her own admission, De Carlo never imagined, at the time, that Lily Munster would become one of her most famous roles.
5. Yvonne De Carlo received fifth star billing (after Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, and Edward G. 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.
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Thank you very much for your long and overdue tribute to Yvonne De Carlo. She wasone of the most beautiful women to grace the screen, but she also had an indomitable will to overcome adversity of typecasting, personal hardship, and fully develop her skills.
She was a bit player for most of the 1940s, a sex symbol in the late 1940s and 1950s, a television icon in the 1960s, and a singer and Broadway star in the last part of her career. She wrote one of the best autobiographies of any film star. She was memorable as the opportunistic and double-crossing lady in the classic film noir Criss Cross (1949); a resourceful Mexican senorita in Sombrero (1953); a happy-go-lucky adultress in The Captain’s Paradise (1953); Moses’ wife Sephora in The Ten Commandments (1956); and a seductive cook in McClintock (1962).
Thank you Miss De Carlo for all your wonderful times and memories!
Hey Frank. Great Comet from you, I can tell you’re a true fan of hers. Growing up I used to watch her all the time is Lily Munster. In many ways I am shocked that I knew so little about the her movie career.You were right she had a very long and very successful career. I do not know much about her Broadway work so thanks for sharing that. Thanks for bringing your enthusiasm to the website, makes me feel like I picked a good subject. Great Comet stay safe and healthy.
I have seen 7 Yvonne DeCarlo movies, less than I thought. However, 5 of those are the top 5 movies.
The HIGHEST rated movie I have seen is The Ten Commandments.
The highest rated movie I have NOT seen is Song of Scheherazade.
The LOWEST rated movie I have seen is Sombrero.
Favourite Yvonne DeCarlo Movies:
Criss Cross
Brute Force
The Ten Commandments
Other Yvonne DeCarlo Movies I Have Seen:
McLintontock!
Band of Angels
Munster Go Home!
Sombrero
Hey Flora. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Yvonne de Carlo. I have seen four of her movies compared to your seven. A lot closer than I would’ve guessed. I recently saw my fourth movie of hers, but I still didn’t put it together that that was Lily Munster that I was watching.i guess I need to watch Band of Angels again. Of your favorites I’ve only seen Steve’s favorite the 10 Commandments. Amazingly, I have seen either of the two Burt Lancaster ones you like so much. I hope to see both in the near future. Good stuff is always glad to see you’re still doing well.
Donald Trump and Joel Hirschhorn and I always like to “tell it as it is” and I have to say that one of the few weaknesses of Bruce’s massive and 99.9% accurate site is his own fixation with certain stars many of whom have for example personal videos on the site and get box office credits that others would not enjoy. If I mention some of the BIG names like Leach/Willis-More/Micklewhite and Thins viewers will know the kind of star about whom I am talking.
And so it is that people not in the know could be misled by John Saxon being seemingly listed as Yvonne’s male lead co-star in Raw Edge when in fact the real lead and overall top-billed star Rory is not mentioned. Here it may not matter all that much because it was the worst Calhoun western that I have ever seen and the 61% that WH’s sources give it flatter it in my opinion and exceedingly so. For a more general critical appraisal of some of Yvonne’s work from this site’s resident Guru see final paragraph below.
Anyway there are usually compensating factors in any slightly misleading Cogerson page and HERE they come in the form of a gross for Sea Devils [one of two movies Yvonne made with Rock Hudson in 1952/53 the other being Scarlet Angel]. For years I have sought a box office figure for Sea Devils and now we have one above. It seems that WH himself didn’t possess it when he wrote his Hudson page so he will now no doubt add it to Rock’s credits. [I’ll be keeping a close look out to ensure that an extra $32.3 million doesn’t suddenly miraculously appear among Bruce Willis’ totals instead!]
“Voted Up!” BUT SAVING THE VERY BEST WINE FOR THE LAST:
“Some stars like Claire Trevor make a name for themselves in action films and then graduate to more dramatically fulfilling roles. Yvonne DeCarlo played in westerns or in costume dramas adding flashing B movie decorations to forgettable adventure films.” – The Master 1983
Hey Bob. Good catch on the fact that she Devils is now in the database. I do admit the sources are not the ones I like the best, but I figured it was time to finally get a number out there for this movie. I know the budget cost. I know the movie was not profitable for the producers. And I have an adjective from two different book sources. Putting all those together and comparing it to others of that timeframe we came up with this number for it’s gross. Like all the box office numbers listed here they are best case estimates with the true number never being known. I have been sitting on most of those facts this entire time but only recently did the budget of the movie appear on some of my sources of information.
I was going to include Joel comments, but they seemed a little bit on the mean side so I decided not to include them here. You have now allowed people to decide for themselves if he was being too harsh. I will say her overall Joel score is very low. Good comments thanks for sharing them. Stay safe and healthy.
HI BRUCE. Thanks for the feedback on all 3 parts of my post. On doing further movies research work in the past few days I stumbled across some quotes one of which at the least might interest you.
1/ “Brando has always made me mad. He portrays with ease complicated and trouble characters to play whom I have to bust my a** off on screen to get it right.” – Paul Newman.
2/ “When Brando died we all moved up one. Anyone who doesn’t see him as the greatest of actors knows nothing about acting.” – Jack Nicholson. I have quoted the first part of that statement before and when I came across the 2nd part it occurred to me that maybe Jack and just been reading Joel’s 1983 book!!!
However as you know I always try to save the very best wine for the last and so-
3/ “Cary Grant is a GREAT actor.” -Vittorio de Sica renowned Italian director and movie star. I have mentioned before Vittorio’s publicly expressed admiration of Archie but I came across the following quote only yesterday and was hitherto unaware of its exitence or the obvious admiration that it contains so I almost fainted when I saw it and thought IT in particular would interest you.
4/ “To enhance and sharpen my own performances the only actors whose work and techniques I have ever studied are Spencer Tracy and Cary Grant.” – Marlon Brando
Hey Bob…..thanks for sharing these 4 quotes. I especially enjoyed the last by Brando and him mentioning Grant and Tracy. Good stuff.
Other induvial examples of these heroic technicolour heroines [who being physically ravishing also of course provided romantic companionship for their he-man counterparts] are (1) Maureen O’Hara in Sons of the Musketeers [aka At Swords Point] who as a daughter of one of the old musketeers [Athos] rode out with Cornel Wilde and the other Sons on their swashbuckling adventures. In that movie Cornel was of course the son of the legendary D’Artagnan “The greatest swordsman in all France.” in the Alexandre Dumas novels.
(2) Rhonda Fleming in Bullwhip described as a B western Taming of the Shrew. Cum Mutiny on the Bounty. In that one Rhonda in trousers ruled her trail drive as ruthless as The Duke did his in Red River and Guy Madison was the shrew taming Montgomery Clift figure from Red River who had to bring her down – and into his arms!
Those “butch” gals were certainly not shrinking violets like Myrna Loy [who wasn’t a “Queen” anywhere except on Cogerson]. In 1956 Yvonne went from the “sublime to the ridiculous” as the saying goes in appearances with two of my own heroes (1) the sublime – as the wife of Chuck’s Moses in the blockbuster The Ten Commandments
(2) the ridiculous – in the B western Raw Edge as Hannah a rancher’s wife. This one placed a bit more emphasis than usual on DeCarlo’s feminine attractions as all the ranch hands plotted to take her away from her husband and she was lucky that Tex Kirby played by my Rory Calhoun rode in to save her from the ‘raw edge’.
Hey Bob. Good thoughts on these famous actresses from the past. I agree their screen personas are drastically different than Myrna Loy‘s. The great thing about movies is there is room for all types of different actresses, especially room for the greatest female actress box star of all time. Good information as always thanks for sharing.
Yvonne was so lovely in her heyday that even top male heartthrob Tony Curtis boasted to his friend Walter Matthau [in words that I’ll not repeat here] that he Curtis was enjoying a romance with her. With her tanned looks and the types of roles she played I always imagined that she was descended from some Easter spitfire beauty so I was surprised to learn from Bruce’s lead in above that she was a Canuck-American. Goodness those Canucks are everywhere on Cogerson these days: a day or so ago for example we had [thankfully] Raymond Burr!
As Bruce also faithfully records above Yvonne was one of Hollywood’s Technicolour Queens in the forties and early fifties who were so called because they appeared in westerns and swashbuckling yarns and other types of action features all of which were enhanced by colour. Bruce has given us many titles above that help illustrate my point.
They [like A lister Crawford in the classic Johnny Guitar] were all tough gals who matched the tough guy heroes of those films and those women were thus regarded as “butch”. They fought their own battles and invariably wore pants like the men and the former Mrs Bruce Willis.
Hey Bob. Thanks for your three part, on our latest subject.I am feeling pretty clueless when I think about her. Unlike Shirley Jones and Shirley Booth, I did not realize that Lily Munster had been such a star before the TV show I knew her from.I recently watched a movie with Clark Gable it still does not connect those dots. I am very disappointed in myself, questioning whether I’m a movie buff or not. Over the years doing research for the website I’ve seen her name pop up many many times, but until last night I never even thought about doing a page on her. Interesting information on her and Tony Curtis. Glad you like the nickname that I included. Onto the second comment.