About Carolyn Jones
Carolyn Sue Jones was an American actress of television and film. She began her film career in the early 1950s and by the end of the decade, in 1958, had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and, that same year, won a Laurel Award for Top Supporting Female Performance, as well as a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year–Actress for her turn in Marjorie Morningstar. Her film career continued for another 20 years. In 1964, Jones began playing the role of Morticia Addams in the black-and-white television sitcom The Addams Family. Although Jones was cast in From Here to Eternity (1953) as Alma "Lorene" Burke, pneumonia forced her to withdraw, and the role went to Donna Reed, whose performance won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In the 1962–1963 season, Jones guest-starred on CBS's The Lloyd Bridges Show, created by her second husband, television producer Aaron Spelling. In How the West Was Won (1963), a Western, she played the wife of Sheriff Jeb Rawlings (George Peppard). Carolyn suffered from severe asthma that often restricted her childhood activities, and when her condition prevented her from going to the movies, she became an avid reader of Hollywood fan magazines.
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