Yvonne De Carlo Bio, Family, Career, Husband, Death, Net Worth

A brunette girl, Yvonne De Carlo with a blue-gray eye was an internationally renowned actress in the 1940s and 1950s. Moreover, the popular actress was also active in her singing and dancing career. Before starting her acting career, she first worked as a nightclub dancer. As a singer, her songs include 1950’s ‘I love a Man’ / ‘Say Goodbye’ and the album ‘Yvonne De Carlo Sings’.

However, the veteran died of heart failure on January 8, 2007 in Woodland Hills. But before that, she accomplished a lot in a very short time. Let’s scroll down to find out about his accomplishments, career, relationships, and net worth before his demise.

YVONNE DE CARLO: BIO, FAMILY, EDUCATION

The legendary handsome actor was born as Margaret Yvonne Middleton on September 1, 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. His mother had nicknamed Carlo “Peggy” after the silent film star “Baby Peggy”. She was born as the daughter of Marie De Carlo and William Shelto Middleton. His father was a salesman from New Zealand. When she was three years old, her father fled Canada due to various scams and since then there has been no news from her father.

Afterwards, she and her mother left their grandparents’ house and lived in an apartment in Vancouver. His mother worked in a store to get financial support. Regarding her education, she attended Lord Roberts Elementary School. Her mother wanted her to do in show business to achieve this, she first made sure she had a good education in singing and dancing. As a result, she enrolled Peggy in the June Roper School of Dance and also joined a choir at St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Vancouver.

YVONNE DE CARLO: CAREER AND ACHIEVEMENTS IN LIFE

At first, she wanted to pursue a career in writing. At age seven, she entered the contest organized by “The Vancouver Sun” where she won five dollars for the poem “A Little Boy”. She also wrote the plays and even adopted Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol for a neighborhood play. In 1940, she participated in the Miss Venice beauty pageant and won second place, after that fifth place at Miss California. After being noticed in the Miss Venice beauty pageant, she was called up for auditions. She started with stage musical performance which she never left throughout her career.

Her first screen role was an uncredited role of a bathing beauty in a Columbia Pictures B-movie “Harvard, Here I Come” in 1941. In 1942, she began working for Paramount Pictures and played a small role in “Luck Jordan”. With the production house, she notably held unbilled roles in “Here Comes the Waves” and “Bring the Girls”.

Later, she tested for Universal the exotic glamor girl for the Technicolor film ‘Salome, Where She Danced’. She then signed a long-term contract with the production. In 1954, she got the role of “Sephora” in the epic film “The Ten Commandments” directed by Cecil B. DeMille. The film premiered in November 1956, which is the sixth highest-grossing film of all time in Canada and the United States.

In 1964-66 she joined the cast of ‘The Munsters’ as ‘Lily Munster’, the female lead opposite actor Fred Gwynne. After that, she went on to appear in an episode of ‘The Girl from UNCLE’ and ‘The Raiders’. Subsequently, she appeared in many series and films including “The Delta Factor”, “The Seven Minutes”, “American Gothic”, “Mirror Mirror”. She also appeared in Sylvester Stallone’s comedy “Oscar” as her Aunt Rosa. Her final performance was as Norma in the 1995 TV movie ‘The Barefoot Executive’.

YVONNE DE CARLO: PERSONAL LIFE, HUSBAND AND DEATH

Coming to her personal life, she was once married to stuntman Robert Drew Morgan. They were married on November 21, 1955, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Reno, Nevada and became the mother of stepdaughter Bari Lee. Together they had welcomed two sons; Bruce Ross and Michael.

Prior to her marriage to Robert, she was linked to a number of popular guys. She announced her engagement to actor Howard Duff in 1947 but never married. Later, she was engaged to three other men: Scottish actor Richard Urquhart, English photographer Cornel Lucas and Stuntman Jock Mahoney. She got pregnant while in a relationship with Mahoney. Later, she was diagnosed with the large ovarian cyst. After having the tumor surgically removed, she also lost her baby. After that, she caught Mahoney having a relationship with actress Margaret Field, as a result, she walked away from the stuntman.

On January 8, 2007, she left the world due to heart failure. Before that, she had a minor stroke in 1998, from which she became a resident of the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland. There she spent her last years before her demise.

YVONNE DE CARLO: FORTUNE, PROFILE & SOCIAL NETWORKS

Before her disappearance in 2007, she had a successful career but she was less seen from the year 1995. While working, she had earned a considerably good income. His net worth had an estimate of around $2 million. But his exact salary is not available in the media. Additionally, in 1950, she had purchased an eleven-room ranch house on a five-and-a-half-acre lot on Coldwater Canyon Drive in Studio City, Los Angeles. However, she sold her dream home in 1975 and moved to a ranch in Santa Ynez Valley in 1981.

She does not have any kind of accounts on different social media platforms like Instagram and Twitter.

YVONNE DE CARLO: BODY MEASUREMENTS

The internationally renowned actress was not endowed with talents, but also with good looks and charm. She had a body measurement of 36-25-34 inches and a height of 5 feet 4 inches or 1.625 meters. Additionally, she had a pair of blue-gray eyes and metallic brown hair color.