Trivia

Carolyn Jones was Charles Addams' personal choice to play Morticia on The Addams Family (1964). Jones was an avid fan of Addams' cartoons, and the two became good friends.

Jones was naturally a strawberry blonde. She first dyed her hair black for the film The Bachelor Party (1957) and kept the color for several years, most famously as Morticia in the television series The Addams Family (1964).

Smoked three packs of cigarettes a day until 1964, when she quit to try her luck with a singing career. That didn't pan out, but Jones never resumed the nicotine habit.

She has appeared in five films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: The War of the Worlds (1953), House of Wax (1953), The Big Heat (1953), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and How the West Was Won (1962).

Buried at Melrose Abbey memorial park in Anaheim, Ca in crypt North Patio, 46 GG with her mother.

She auditioned for Three's Company (1976) but lost the role of Mrs. Helen Roper to Audra Lindley.

In The Addams Family TV show, she also played the female version of Thing Lady Fingers and also played her own twin sister Ophelia Frump.

Best remembered for her starring role as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1964).

She was a dj at a local radio station while at high school.

Reportedly, a great many of her scenes in "How The West Was Won" were deleted, so that there is barely a hint remaining in the film that she is playing a woman of Native American ancestry.

Said to have some Native American (Comanche) ancestry. This ancestry has never been documented/verified.

Was good friends with John Astin and Adam West.