Yvonne De Carlo

De Carlo has worked steadily in both film and television, playing her most recent role in the television production of The Barefoot Contessa (1995). Evans has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (TV, Movie, Song). She also received recognition for her work in the horror movie American Gothic in 1988. In addition to a series of successful TV shows, over 30 movies, and 200 songs, Evans wrote the well known songs "Happy Trails" and "The Bible Tells Me So". She played the role of Lily Munster in the television series The Munsters (1964), and was able to demonstrate a comic flair that her films had failed to utilize. Her life inspired Evans to write her best-seller "Angel Unawares". Despite this, her success was short-lived and the quality of her film roles did not improve. Rogers and Evans had one child, Robin Elizabeth, who died of complications of Down's Syndrome shortly before her second birthday.

The film was a huge success and De Carlo was among those to be praised for her work. Rogers and Evans were a team on screen and off from 1946 until Rogers death in 1998. Cast in The Ten Commandments (1956), De Carlo was finally part of a major hit. Rogers ended the deception regarding Tommy. For the next several years, she was constantly working although many of the films failed to advance her career. Evans married Roy Rogers on New Years Eve 1946. As the female lead opposite Burt Lancaster in Criss Cross, De Carlo played a dangerous femme fatale, and her career began to ascend. This deception continued through her divorce from Butts in 1945, and her development as a cow-girl co-star to Roy Rogers at Republic studios.

In 1947 she played her first leading role in Slave Girl and then in 1949 had her biggest success. During her time at 20th Century Fox, the studio promoted her as the unmarried supporter of her teenage "brother" Tommy, actually her son Tom Fox, Jr. Though not a critical success it was a box office favorite and De Carlo was hailed as an up and coming star. After beginning her career singing at the radio station where she was employed as a secretary, Evans had a productive career as a jazz, swing and big band singer which lead to a screen test and contract with 20th Century Fox studios. Her break came in 1945 playing the title role in Salome, Where She Danced. She married her accompianist and arranger Robert Dale Butts in 1935. She made her first film appearance in 1942, but could only find bit parts for the next few years. She took the name Dale Evans in the early 1930's to promote her singing career.

De Carlo supported herself working in a chorus while trying to find film work. Divorced in 1929 at 17, she married August Wayne Johns that same year until her divorce from him in 1933. Unable to find work, they returned to Canada until 1940, when they once again traveled to Hollywood. at 15. Born Peggy Yvonne Middleton in Vancouver, British Columbia, the daughter of an ambitious but unsuccessful aspiring actress, De Carlo was taken to Hollywood by her mother at the age of fifteen. She bore one son, Thomas Fox, Jr. Yvonne De Carlo (born September 1, 1922) is an Canadian film and television actress. Fox at 14.

Evans had a tumultuous early life, eloping with her first husband Thomas F. Lucille Wood Smith name changed in infancy to Frances Octavia Smith famous as Dale Evans (31 October 1912 - 7 February 2001) was a prolific writer, movie star, singer/songwriter and the wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers.