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Carolyn's favorite performers were Danny Kaye and Spike Jones.
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Carolyn suffered from asthma as a child and wasn't able to go in to movies, but spent all of her free time reading movie magazines.
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Carolyn specifically asked her sister to have her tombstone read "She gave joy to the world."
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Carolyn proposed to her first husband, Aaron Spelling, by having a waiter at an Italian restaraunt bring the note with her proposal during their dinner.
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Carolyn worked with Alfred Hitchcock in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956).
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Carolyn appeared as Julie Greer in the unaired 1961 TV pilot, "Amos Burke: Who Killed Julie Greer?" This episode would be the basis for Burke's Law which began in 1963.
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Carolyn spent two hours a day in make-up for her role as Morticia, and wore a wig made of human hair.
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Carolyn co-starred with Henry Fonda in How The West Was Won (1962).
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Carolyn's costume for The Addams Family needed no alterations, despite being made before her audition and casting, because of her already slim physique.
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Carolyn was the only other Batman "guest villain" besides the series' regular villains (ones with 10 and more) to have made more than 2 appearances on the show, for a total of 5 times.
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Carolyn appeared with Frank Sinatra in The Tender Trap (1955).
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Carolyn appeared with Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch (1955).
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Carolyn appeared with Elvis Presley in King Creole (1958).
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Carolyn's measurements. according to the 1963 Movie Life Yearbook, were 35-25-37, and her weight was 117 pounds.
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Carolyn won the Laurel Award for Top Female Supporting Performance
in Marjorie Morningstar (1958).
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Carolyn won the Golden Globe for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1958 and was nominated Best Female TV Star in 1964.
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Carolyn was nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
in The Bachelor Party (1957).
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Carolyn had Commanche ancestry.
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Carolyn was married 3 times, to Aaron Spelling from 1953 to 1964, to Herbert S. Greene from 1968 - 1977, and
Peter Bailey-Britton from September 1982 to her death on August 3, 1983.
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Carolyn was 5 feet 5 inches tall.
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Though she was diagnosed with colon cancer, Carolyn still acted in a wheelchair in the soap opera "Capitol".
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Carolyn suffered near-fatal asthma attacks as a child.