Born Margaret Yvonne Middleton inside Vancouver, British Columbia, but known from childhood when Peggy, a girl of an challenging however abortive wishful actress, De Carlo was taken to Hollywood by her mother at the age of xv. She was "Miss Venice Beach" (1938). Unable to buy function, it returned to Canada until 1940, when it once more traveled to Hollywood. De Carlo supported herself working around the chorus when looking for film operate. She mass produced her foremost film appearance within 1941, but can sole buy minor role for the next pack years.

Her break come within 1945 playing the name part around Salome, In which She Danced. Though non the critical profits it was the pack professional preferred & De Carlo was hailed as an higher & coming star. Inside 1947 she played her first leading role around Slave Girl so inside 1949 had her biggest profits. When a female lead paired Burt Lancaster in Criss Cross, De Carlo played a unsafe femme fatale, and her career began to ascend. For the next numerous years, she was constantly working although many of the films failed to advance her career. Cast in The Ten Commandments (1956) in the leading role (when Moses' married woman), De Carlo was the share of a major hit. the film was a vast profits & De Carlo was among victims to exist as praised for her restrained operate.

Yet, her best known role that led her to popular culture bequest is of "Lily Munster" in the television series The Munsters (1964-1966), and was the cappella to demonstrate a comical flair that her films experienced failed to use. She performed in Broadway, notably in the role of Carlotta Campion in the Sondheim musical Follies. She too received recognition for her function around various great-budget, horror picture show, like The Power, The Seven Minutes, Home of Shadows, Sorority Home Murders, Cellar Dweller, Mirror, Mirror, Blazing Stewardesses, and U.s. Gothic. De Carlo has worked steadily within each film & television, swimming her virtually all recent role in the television production of The Barefoot Contessa (1995).

She was married to the late stuntman, Bob Morgan, from either either 1955 to 1968 after it divorced; it got Ii sons, & Morgan experienced the girl, Bari, from the former marriage. DeCarlo occurs as naturalized citizen of the United States.

For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Yvonne De Carlo was honored by owning the star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6124 Hollywood Blvd. & another star at 6715 Hollywood Blvd. for her contribution to television. The Power (1968), kept her prior to a eye of the motion picture running public. Yvonne's endure large screen appearance was inside 1993. Filmography
I Look at You (1941) (short subject) Harvard, Here I Come! (1941) The Kink of the Campus (1941) (short subject) This Gun for Hire (1942) Road to Morocco (1942) Youth on Parade (1942) Lucky Jordan (1942) Rhythm Parade (1942) The Crystal Ball (1943) Salute for Three (1943) So Proudly We Hail! (1943) For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) ''Let's Face It (1943) Deerslayer (1943) True to Life (1943) Standing Room Only (1944) The Story of Dr. Wassell (1944) Fun Time (1944) (short subject) Kismet (1944) Rainbow Island (1944) Here Come the Waves (1944) Practically Yours (1944) Bring on the Girls (1945) Salome, Where She Danced (1945) Frontier Gal (1945) Song of Scheherazade (1947) Brute Force (1947) Slave Girl (1947) Black Bart (1948) Casbah (1948) River Lady (1948) Criss Cross (1949) Calamity Jane and Sam Bass (1949) The Gal Who Took the West (1949) Buccaneer's Gal (1950) The Desert Hawk (1950) Tomahawk (1951) Hotel Sahara (1951) Silver City (1951) The San Fransisco Story (1952) Scarlet Angel (1952) Hurricane Smith (1952) Sombrero (1953) Sea Devils (1953) The Captain's Paradise (1953) Fort Algiers (1953) Border River (1954) Happy Ever After (1954) Passion (1954) Shotgun (1955) The Contessa's Secret (1955) Flame of the Islands (1956) Raw Edge (1956) Magic Fire (1956) The Ten Commandments (1956) Death of a Scoundrel (1956) Band of Angels (1957) The Sword and the Cross (1958) Timbuktu (1959) McLintock! (1963) A Global Affair (1964) Law of the Lawless (1964) Forbidden Temptations (1965) (documentary) Munster, Go Home (1966) Hostile Guns (1967) The Power (1968) Arizona Bushwhackers (1968) The Delta Factor (1970) The Seven Minutes (1971) Black Fire (1975) Blazing Stewardesses (1975) It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time (1975) House of Shadows (1976) Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976) Satan's Cheerleaders (1977) Nocturna (1979) Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1979) Black Fire (1979) (Spanish version) The Man with Bogart's Face (1980) Silent Scream (1980) Liar's Moon (1981) National Lampoon's Class Reunion (1982) Vultures (1983) Play Dead (1985) Flesh and Bullets (1985) American Gothic (1988) Cellar Dweller (1988) Mirror, Mirror (1990) Oscar (1991) The Naked Truth (1992) Desert Kickboxer (1992) The Sorority House Murders (1993) Seasons of the Heart (1993) (voice only)

TV Work
The Munsters (1964-1966) The Girl on the Late, Late Show (1974) The Mark of Zorro (1974) The Munsters' Revenge (1981) A Masterpiece of Murder (1986) Here Come the Munsters (1995) (Cameo) The Barefoot Contessa'' (1995)