
"I'm in love with everything about show business. The only thing that ever came easy to me in life has been acting."
Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 August 3, 1983) was an American television and movie actress.
She is probably best remembered as the first actress to portray Morticia Addams in the 1960s series The Addams Family.
Producer Aaron Spelling was her third husband. She passed away at age of fifty three from colon cancer. Her onscreen Addams husband, John Astin, gave the eulogy at her funeral.
Selected roles:
- House of Wax (1953) as Cathy Gray
- Shield for Murder (1954) as Beth, Girl at Bar
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955) as Pamela Waring (Episode: "The Cheney Vase")
- The Seven Year Itch (1955) as Miss Finch
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) as Theodora 'Teddy' Belicec
- The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) as Cindy Fontaine
- Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) as Linda
- The Addams Family (1964-1966) as Morticia Addams, Ophelia Frump and Lady Fingers
- Batman (1966-1967) as Marsha the Queen of Diamonds
- The New Scooby-Doo Movies (1972) as Morticia Addams
- The New Perry Mason (1973) as Marian Ryan
- Wonder Woman (1976-1977) as Queen Hippolyta
- Roots (1977) as Mrs. Moore
- The Love Boat (1979) as Margaret Jerome