Goodnight Lily
She was signed to Paramount Pictures in 1942; dropped after twenty minor roles, she landed at Universal. Universal Pictures exploited her slightly exotic looks and a body that seemed designed for a harem dress in a series of ’sex-and-sand’ movies, and to add zest to a series of otherwise flat Westerns. She sustained her long career by repeatedly reinventing herself: moving from B-picture starlet to Moses’s wife in The Ten Commandments, to Lily Munster on TV, to Stephen Sondheim’s Follies on Broadway. And her autobiography was a hoot.
We’ll miss her. (source: CNN)
