Updated 05-May-2020.
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Carolyn Sue Jones (April 28, 1930 – August 3, 1983) was an actress of television and film . she began her film career in the early 1950s . in 1964, she began playing the role of Morticia Addams Jones suffered from severe asthma that often restricted her childhood activities . her condition prevented her from going to the movies . she became an avid reader of Hollywood fan magazines and aspired to become an actress . the role earned Donna Reed the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress . Jones made her television debut on the duMont series Gruen Playhouse in 1952 . she appeared on the CBS anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Present in 1957, she had the lead in the episode “The Girl in the Grass” on CBS’s Schlitz Playhouse . Jones guest starred three times on the television series Wagon Train . in 1958, Jones in 1964, using a long coal-black wig, the brunette Jones began playing Morticia Addams on tv series . in 1962–1963 season, she guest-starred on CBS’s The Lloyd in tobe hooper’s movie Eaten Alive, she played a madam running a rural whorehouse . her last role was that of myrna, the scheming matriarch of Jones landed the role of the power-driven political matriarch in the CBS daytime soap opera Capitol in 1981 . shortly after Capitol debuted, she was diagnosed with colon cancer . she played many of her scenes in a Jones converted to Judaism when she married television producer Aaron Spelling . her third marriage, in 1968, was to Tony Award-winning Broadway musical director Herbert Greene . in September 1982, realizing she was dying, after a period of apparent remission, the cancer returned in 1982 . in July 1983, she fell into a coma at her home in west Hollywood, California . she died on august 3, 1983 . Morticia’s Shadow: The Life & Career of Carolyn Jones. Jacobus Books. ISBN 978-0984185757. Trident Press. ISBN 978-0671270742.