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Yvonne De Carlo in “Munster” lingerie

Yvonne De Carlo was “… an internationally famous Hollywood film star in the 1940sand1950s, made several recordings, and later acted on television and stage”

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Honors & Awards:

• In 1946, Variety named her one of the three “top new Hollywood stars” of 1945, along with Lizabeth Scott and Lauren Bacall: “Miss de Carlo is definitely a personality. She has proved this in Universal’s Salome, Where She Danced, and followed this appearance as star in [the] same company’s Frontier Gal. She is a controversial figure, but she’s managed to come out a star during discussions.”
• She was a medalist in Boxoffice Barometer’s The All-American Screen Favorites of 1946 list.
• She was a medalist in Boxoffice Barometer’s The All-American Screen Favorites of 1947 list.
• In 1947, Max Factor’s chief hair stylist, Fred Fredericks, named her one of the 10 “best tressed” film actresses.
• In 1950, the Camera Club of America voted her “Sexnicolor Queen of the Screen” “for putting more sex [appeal] into Technicolor than any other star.”
• In 1957, she received a BoxOffice Blue Ribbon Award for The Ten Commandments(1956).
• In 1960, she was awarded two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The motion picture star is on the south side of the 6100 block of Hollywood Boulevard. The television star is on the north side of the 6700 block of Hollywood Boulevard.
• In 1964, she received a second BoxOffice Blue Ribbon Award for McLintock!(1963).
• In 1966, she was honored by the City of Niagara Falls, Canada, for “having created good will for her native country and given inspiration to others.”
• In 1966, she was named honorary mayor of North Hollywood, Los Angeles.
• In 1987, she won the International Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Show (Fantafestival) Award for Best Actress for American Gothic.
• In 2005, she was one of the 250 female Hollywood legends nominated for the American Film Institute’s 100 Years … 100 Stars list.
• In 2007, she was nominated for the “Who Knew They Could Sing?” TV Land Award for The Munsters.