1. Carolyn Sue Jones was an American actress of television and film.
17 Facts About Carolyn Jones
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Carolyn Jones began her film career in the early 1950s, and by the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising new actresses of 1959.
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In 1964, Jones began playing the role of matriarch Morticia Addams in the black and white television series The Addams Family.
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Carolyn Jones was born in Amarillo, Texas to homemaker Chloe Jeanette Southern, and Julius Alfred Jones, a barber.
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Carolyn Jones suffered from severe asthma that often restricted her childhood activities, and when her condition prevented her from going to the movies, she became an avid reader of Hollywood fan magazines and aspired to become an actress.
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Carolyn Jones enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse in California at age 17, with her grandfather, Charles W Baker, paying her tuition.
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Carolyn Jones played Beth in Shield for Murder, earning $500 per day for playing the role.
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Carolyn Jones was cast in the film From Here to Eternity in the role of Alma "Lorene" Burke.
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Carolyn Jones played opposite Frank Sinatra in Frank Capra's A Hole in the Head, Dean Martin in Career, and Anthony Quinn and Kirk Douglas in Last Train from Gun Hill.
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Carolyn Jones made her television debut on the DuMont series Gruen Playhouse in 1952.
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Carolyn Jones appeared on the CBS anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the episode "The Cheney Vase", as a secretary assisting her scheming boyfriend Darren McGavin in attempting an art theft, and opposite Ruta Lee.
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In 1964, Carolyn Jones played Morticia Addams in the television series The Addams Family, a role which brought her a Golden Globe Award nomination and success as a comedian.
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Carolyn Jones guest-starred on the 1960s TV series Batman, playing Marsha, the Queen of Diamonds, and in 1976 appeared as the title character's mother, Hippolyta, in the Wonder Woman TV series.
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Carolyn Jones played sporadic television roles in the 1970s including Mrs Moore, the wife of the plantation owner in the miniseries Roots.
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Carolyn Jones converted to Judaism upon marrying Aaron Spelling; the marriage lasted from 1953 until their 1964 separation and divorce.
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Carolyn Jones gained the role of the power-driven political matriarch Myrna Clegg in the CBS daytime soap opera Capitol in 1981.
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Carolyn Jones donated her Morticia costume and black wig to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a collection of The Addams Family scripts was donated by Bailey-Britton to UCLA.