Unable to find work, they returned to Vancouver. Mother and daughter were uprooted when their visas expired. Margaret lived in a downtown apartment with her mother, while Marie took on odd jobs such as waitressing.

As a teenager Peggy was taken by her mother to Hollywood where she enrolled her in dancing school she also attended Le Conte Middle School in Hollywood. Although her mother recognized Peggy's singing talent, she had already decided that her daughter would be a dancer. By the time she entered grade school, she found that her strong singing voice brought her the attention she longed for. Little Peggy was three years old when her father abandoned the family. Margaret's mother ran away from home when she was 16 to become a ballerina after a couple of years of working as a shop girl, she was married in 1924. She was fascinated at the time by the movie star Baby Peggy, and I suppose she wanted a Baby Peggy of her own.' Her maternal grandfather, Michael de Carlo, was Sicilian-born, and her maternal grandmother, Margaret Purvis, was Scottish-born.

'I was named Margaret Yvonne – Margaret because my mother was very fond of one of the derivatives of the name. In the early 1960s, De Carlo accepted the offer to play Lily Munster for the CBS television series The Munsters, alongside Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis.Įarly lifeThe daughter of an aspiring actress, Marie De Carlo, and a salesman, William Middleton, De Carlo was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, British Columbia, and nicknamed 'Peggy'. During her six-decade career, her most frequent appearances in film came in the 1940s and 1950s and included her best-known film roles, such as of Anna Marie in Salome Where She Danced (1945) Anna in Criss Cross (1949) Sephora the wife of Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956), starring Charlton Heston and Amantha Starr in Band of Angels (1957) with Clark Gable. Yvonne De Carlo (Septem– January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-born American actress of film and television.

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