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Carolyn Jones

Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Jones
Born: Apr 28, 1930 in Amarillo, Texas
Died: Aug 03, 1983 in West Hollywood, California
Occupation: Actor
Active: '50s-'70s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Bachelor Party, Sail a Crooked Ship
First Major Screen Credit: House of Wax (1953)
6 Videos for Carolyn Jones
How the West Was Won (1962) Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Marjorie Morningstar (1958) The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) The War of the Worlds (1953)
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Biography:

Trained at the Pasadena Playhouse, Texas-born Carolyn Jones supported herself as a radio disk jockey when acting jobs were scarce. She entered films as a bit player in 1952, attaining prominence for a role in which (for the most part) she neither moved nor spoke: the waxwork Joan of Arc -- actually one of mad sculptor Vincent Price's many murder victims -- in 1953's House of Wax.

In 1957, Jones was Oscar-nominated for her five-minute role as a pathetic good time girl in The Bachelor Party; two years later, she stole the show in Frank Capra's A Hole in the Head as Frank Sinatra's bongo-playing girlfriend. During the early 1960s, Jones was married to producer Aaron Spelling, who frequently cast her on such TV series as The Dick Powell Show and Burke's Law.

In 1964, Jones achieved TV sitcom immortality as the ghoulishly sexy Morticia Addams on the popular series The Addams Family. Though her TV and movie activities were curtailed by illness in her last decade (she died of cancer in 1983), Carolyn Jones continued making occasional appearances, notably a return engagement as Morticia in a 1978 Addams Family reunion special.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.