Talk:Yvonne De Carlo

Surname

De Carlo was her Sicilian-born maternal grandfather's name. There are numerous references in her autobiography regarding her heritage. Mchuston (talk) 23:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

Was De Carlo her mother's maiden name, or was it just made up? Michael 21:40, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Do you know a source for the Italian mom info? That AION website had a message board and one of the moderators said she was Italian. But that site isn't all that reliable, and, a message board posting is not a great source, soo.... The place and time when DeCarlo was born wasn't exactly brimming with Italians. Mad Jack 23:07, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

It was only her mother, not both parents. I'll look into this later. Michael 23:09, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

I know, that's what I meant. I could never find this anywhere online. Mad Jack 23:13, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

See, this site even says "Actress Yvonne DeCarlo , "Lilly Munster" of TV's "The Monsters", was born Peggy Middleton, but changed her average sounding name to the more exotic, Italian sounding, Yvonne DeCarlo ."[1] Mad Jack 23:14, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Why exactly do you frown upon the AION so much? Michael 23:15, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Well because they explicitly say they list people by last names, aside from the fact that they make blatant mistakes and list people like Christina Ricci without details about "how ITalian" they are. Mad Jack 23:16, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Ricci is part Italian. Were they to merely go off her quote, the information would be unencyclopedic. Michael 22:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Every source is conflicting. Michael 04:02, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Ten Commandments

I have seen this movie several times and my recollection is that Yvonne de Carlo actually played the Pharaoh's wife Sephora (in love with Moses, and feeling rejected by Moses, ends up hating him) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.227.192.222 (talk) 23:12, 10 January 2007 (UTC).

What has this to do with the article; sorry, this is not a general forum; see above talkheader.

Your recollection is incorrect.

trezjr 23:20, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

(Fool,) do your research before you base your notions on your own false memories.

Better to be silent and thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

Manual of style note

Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies), date of death is given in the first sentence. Repeating the specific date at the end is a redundancy, which Wikipedia and editors in general frown upon.--69.22.254.111 22:30, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Italian descent?

See the discussion above - does anyone have a reliable source as to whether or not she really was of Italian descent? [2] seems to say she wasn't. (and before anyone gets excited with this source, it's an admitted Wikipedia mirror) Mad Jack 00:19, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

I've not (yet?) found a source that says she was (then again I haven't found one that says she wasn't). "Peggy Yvonne Middleton" doesn't sound particularly Italian, though I know that;'s not much to go on. A copy of her autobiography might say, but I for one won't be buying one, as they're going for $200+ at the moment. Tonywalton  | Talk 09:41, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

About your: "Peggy Yvonne Middleton doesn't sound particularly Italian" I agree with you. In fact it is not. But De Carlo was the mother's surname and it is Italian! Are you racist?!? nick 16:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Which one of us is supposed to be the racist? Doesn't matter. $200? Wow.... Mad Jack 18:12, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Photograph

Is it possible to use a different photograph or possibly two: One when she was younger and another as Lily Munster? Thanks. scottc 18:23, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Divorce Date

The article states that she was married to Robert Morgan until "June 1974, when they divorced", the only cite I see is the link to MediaNewswire where it states they were married "to 1968, when they divorced" Seems like a large discrepency. PrePressChris 02:15, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Yvonne in Pencticton

Long, long ago there was a bio piece on de Carlo in the Vancouver Sun, I can't remember which columnist or much in the way of detail, but there was some connection to Penticton in the context that she lived up there or had a place up there because, like David Duchovny's wife Tia Carrere, she couldn't stand the rain in Vancouver. Wish I had the cite/quote it would be worth having here, plus any other connection to Penticton.Skookum1 (talk) 06:10, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

Corrections

Hello I am Yvonne de Carlos Son , Bruce Morgan . A few corrections . Yes she used the name De Carlo derived from her connection to her Grand Father called Pa Pa Micheal De Carlo who was Scilian. She was divorced from Robert Drew Morgan my father in 1974 .Yvonne initiated the papers .I was there when my father got the news in spring 1974. Any questions ill be glad to help with info. The official web site is www.officialyvonnedecarlo.com and I have some my space pages in which I wrote out some blogs which are in seroius need of proof reading . I hope someone here can help with advice about adding to her credits three movies which my mother was in but there has been a problem listing them due to methods of citing sources or vinictive motives of some individual who wants to erase the existance movies in production like "GhostCamera", "Project Lode Star" and "Suacer Syndicate ".All these were films in which my mother appeared .Thanks for any reponse to ironangel_99@yahoo.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bruce Morgan (talk • contribs) 03:34, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Jock Mahoney

While starring in The Gal Who Took the West (1949), De Carlo not only walked away with the picture, but she walked away with Jock Mahoney, who was her boyfriend at the time. She and Jock were going to start a family, and in 1949, they were engaged.

• I'm having trouble parsing this absolute mess.
  • What does "walked away with the picture" mean and what does it have to do with her personal life?
  • What does "walked away with Jock Mahoney" mean? I assume it means she seduced him or something like that, but if "he was her boyfriend at the time", why was any seduction necessary? It couldn't just mean that boyfriend and girlfriend decided to get engaged, because that's covered in the next sentence. Or could it? With writing of this "calibre", one never really knows.
  • Did they become engaged only because they wanted to start a family, or would they have got married anyway ... maybe because, perhaps, they loved each other? It reads as if she was obsessed with having a child, and didn't care too much who the father was, but recognised it was socially impossible to have a child out of wedlock, so she'd have to marry the father. This impression is reinforced when I read that as soon as the baby died in utero, she called the engagement off.
• If anyone can help out here, I'd be eternally grateful. -- Jack of Oz [your turn] 22:12, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Maori heritage of Yvonne De Carlo

Because Ms. De Carlo is 1/4 Maori (as mentioned in the references), it needs to be cited in the work itself. Also, is there a "Canadians of New Zealand/Maori Descent" group? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabinal (talk • contribs) 21:10, 10 July 2011 (UTC)

The Maori heritage in the references says it's a correction from Laura, and there's nothing there to indicate if that's a quote or footnote from the autobiography, or if someone named Laura just happened upon this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.46.27.96 (talk) 01:37, 24 October 2011 (UTC)