“I enjoyed the comedies with Alec Guinness, and I had a real great time with Peter Ustinov in Hotel Sahara. I found I had the ability to do comedy. My timing was really inborn.”

— Yvonne De Carlo

"Yvonne De Carlo Reminds The World There Was Life Before Lily Munster" (1987)

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