1. Morticia Addams is a fictional character from the Addams Family multimedia franchise created by American Charles Addams in 1933.
15 Facts About Morticia Addams
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Morticia Addams plays the role of the family's reserved matriarch.
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Morticia Addams has been portrayed by several actresses in various Addams Family media, including Carolyn Jones in the television series The Addams Family, Anjelica Huston in the feature films The Addams Family and Addams Family Values, and Catherine Zeta-Jones in the streaming television series Wednesday.
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Morticia Addams's voice is never raised, but has great range.
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Morticia Addams never uses a cliche except to be funny.
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Morticia Addams is a thoughtful hostess in her way and, if a guest needs anything, he is advised to scream for it.
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Morticia Addams often appeared with the rest of the family, and was, along with Gomez and Grandmama, one of the few members to actually speak in the cartoons.
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Morticia Addams is slim, with extremely pale skin and long flowing straight black hair.
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Morticia Addams commonly wears black hobble dresses to match her hair, tightly form fitting, with a fringe of octopus-like cloth "tentacles" at the lower hem.
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Morticia Addams is musically inclined, and is often seen freely strumming a Japanese shamisen.
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Morticia Addams frequently enjoys cutting the buds off of roses, which she discards, likes cutting out paper dolls with three legs and making sweaters with three arms, collecting the mail from the hand-in-the-box Thing, and cooking unusual concoctions for her husband, including eye of newt.
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Huston's portrayal of Morticia Addams was always illuminated by a ghostly glow around the eyes, which became most noticeable when she was standing or lying in dim light.
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Morticia Addams was one of the inspirations for the Disney character Magica De Spell, first designed and drawn by Carl Barks for the Donald Duck universe.
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Morticia Addams tells her daughter that the mood and tone of their visions are based on the recipient's attitude, so hers tend to be happier in nature than Wednesday's.
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Morticia warns Wednesday to be careful of their distant ancestor, Goody Addams, whom Morticia describes as a "witch of great strength", as she let her thirst for vengeance consume her.