Carolyn Jones: Morticia & More (Part 2)
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- Опубліковано 5 лют 2025
- Spectacular film clips, behind-the-scenes footage and rare interviews document the life of one of television's most recognizable faces.
For just two years, she played Morticia Addams, the mom of the ghoulish TV family based on cartoonist Charles Adams' creations. But she excelled on Broadway, won an Oscar® nomination and continually defied the expectations of casting directors and fans alike.
Carolyn Jones was named after the movie star Carole Lombard, and followed in her footsteps. After graduating high school, she attended the famous Pasadena Playhouse before making her screen debut opposite William Holden in The Turning Point. A series of comic roles with Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Micky Rooney left her hungering for more substantial parts, and at the same time that she was re-appraising her career, her decade-long marriage to Aaron Spelling was foundering. A year after their divorce, she landed the role of Morticia on The Addams Family, and soon she was a pop phenomena.
Filled with rare clips, outtakes and the recollections of friends and family, this BIOGRAPHY® follows Carolyn from her Texas childhood to her late-'70s comeback on Broadway, which was tragically cut short by cancer.
A good friend of mine taught her dancing about 2 years before she died and said that she was one of the nicest people she has ever known...
Thank you very much for posting this great story about Carolyn Jones. I did not even know that the narration was done by Billy Mumy (Lost In Space) and produced by Kevin Burns who I met at a Lost In Space convention. Thanks again. Vic
ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE EVER!!!
Thanks so much for posting this. I never knew Carolyn Jones was in so many different movies I have seen.
Thank you for posting this! I just saw an old episode of The Addams Family on Comcast's Xfinity and was curious about what Carolyn was like after the series. I googled her and not only found her, but found all about her, again, thanks to you!
She really was such a dynamic actress and as dtexasnative said, she was in far more film than I realized!
Wow...I never knew Morticia Adams was in a relationship with the legendary Aaron Spelling!
Gloria D me neither! Go figure!
Wow, strange to hear that there was a time that Aaron Spelling didn't have a penny to his name.
Edelweiss Smith I love that song “Edelweiss.” 😊 If your a mother...Happy Mother’s Day Weekend! 💐
Thank you
They were married about 11 years,
I think she looks better with darker hair. Either way though, she was a truly great actress. She even starred in a short clip of The seven year itch with Marilyn Monroe
She actually decided not to have children. She felt that it wouldn't be fair to bring a child into this world when she had so little time for one, and so she decided against being a mother.
Such an honorable decision, especially at that time. Morticia is my favorite TV Mom of all time
QUITE SAD SINCE I THINK GENETICALLY SHE WOULD ADD SO MUCH TO HUMANITY... TALENT LOOKS SMARTS ECT...
How did she prevent that?
@@katrinabrie3514 It's called birth control.
Bizarre that they felt the need to point that out, since 20% of women also "actually decide", as you put it, to not have children. Far too many people carelessly reproduce.
Very nice!
I've always crushed on her.
Siendo yo adolescente, mientras estudiaba el bachillerato y hacía teatro ahí mismo, durante una función el vestido largo que usaba para un personaje se me pegó a las piernas, por la estática y la electricidad que producía al rozar mi cuerpo… 😬 De pronto al no poder caminar normalmente, recordé a la única y magnífica Morticia Addams, y le hice un involuntario homenaje al caminar imitando su estilo tan único para hacerlo, y la verdad es que con esa escena triunfé!!! El teatro entero (el público, por supuesto) se cayó de carcajadas 😆😅😂😂 y de aplausos 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 que a decir verdad en buena medida le debo a la gran Carolyn Jones 🤗😍
Gracias querida y adorada “Tisha” Addams 🤩
It's a shame she never had children. Watching her interact with Lisa and Ken, who played Wednesday and Pugsley on The Addams, I thought she would've been great at it, and Lisa mentioned often how loving she was. I wonder if she ever regretted that...
Probably not because that's what she wanted. For some people having children isn't a dream. She was perfectly happy with her career and it was some career she had too.
I don’t think so. She mentioned that her career was like her baby. She loved working and meeting people throughout her career. I think that she got the satisfaction of being a mother from being a TV mother. Like she said she didn’t think she could give her own kids, if she had them, the attention they deserved. So, for her, having on screen kids like Wednesday and pugsly likely gave her that joy of interacting with children while getting to progress her career and not worry about whether or not she was a good mother or not. I hope that makes sense
@dtexasnative I don't think they mention it here, but she was also supposed to be in, "War Of The Worlds". In fact she WAS in it, but only for about 2 or 3 seconds at a distance. They cut her part out just after it started.
Nice now December 2020. 🎥🎬📺👍💜
Mmm!! Looks GREAT as a redhead, too!!!!
She was so beautiful went to heaven to soon.
What a beautiful face & figure on that woman! I’d always hoped mine would look like that when I grew up! Hah! Nope!
She was my first crush!!!!!💞
I want to marry her.
You’re name is my birth stone.0.0
Carolyn and actress Audrey Totter look like Twins! Are They? !
Ah no
I don't believe there have ever been any film critics who were straight?
De que color tenia su pelo natural
Ella era rubia natural, después lo pintó de negro.
aww she was just re inventing herself for better roles and I believe that that with in itself help make her become a better actress she looked so darn sexxxxxy with short hair I love her in the bachelor party a great classic gem that every fan of miss Carolyn should own in there DVD collection love her so much in that film 😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😞😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭.
14 comments for 9 years?))) OMG!!! Mercedes-Benz AMG is sleeping!
You know what's ironic? Aaron Spelling's daughter Tori actually looks like Carolyn. She could've easily had been their daughter.
I love you.
Maybe she tried and couldn't have them.
No!
She could!
What an ASININE comment!
Didn't you watch the video Pendeja!
Every woman doesn’t want to have children. 🤣