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| Morticia attends sweetly to the manic, leering Gomez |
My fourth grade classmates showed up with snakes, geodes, SSP Racers, Creepy Crawlers, and a cat skeleton. But the coolest thing I ever was "shown & told" was when my classmate Terry Moriarty produced her aunt, Carolyn Jones - famous as Morticia Addams in the TV series The Addams Family. Auntie graciously entertained us, even camping it up a bit as she led us in some vampy finger-snapping (though not in costume)!
When we "met," Carolyn was between marriages (she'd been Aaron Spelling's first wife, divorcing in 1964). She advised us all that, if we liked The Addams Family and were ready for something more "literary," we try Dark Shadows. I never saw the appeal.
As a 10 year old boy, I was only beginning to understand what the excitement was all about - but had already sorted the 1960's brunettes into a mental toybox: Julie Newmar, Yvonne Craig, Peggy Fleming, Claudine Longet, Barbara Feldon, Diana Rigg, Karen Carpenter, Stefanie Powers and, shortly ... Susan Saint James. By the time years later that Elvira emerged... I was altogether primed.
Happy Hallowe'en !!!
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