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Her last role was that of Myrna, the scheming matriarch of the Clegg clan, on the soap opera Capitol from the first episode in March 1982 until March 1983, though she already knew that she was dying of cancer. John Astin and Carolyn Jones as Gomez Addams and Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1964) Guest stars for the 1961 premiere episode of The Dick Powell Show, "Who Killed Julie Greer? Also in 1963 she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star - Female for portraying quadruplets—one the murder victim and the others suspects—in the Burke's Law episode "Who Killed Sweet Betsy?
In 1956 she appeared in Invasion of the Body Snatchers and in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Man Who Knew Too Much, a remake of one of the director's earlier films. In 1957 she had the lead in the episode "The Girl in the Grass" on CBS's Schlitz Playhouse, with once again Ray Milland and Nora Marlowe. In the epic Western How the West Was Won (1963), she played the role of Sheriff Jeb Rawlings' ( George Peppard) wife.Carolyn Sue Jones [1] (April 28, 1930– August 3, 1983) [2] was an American actress of television and film. In 1958, Jones was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957), and she also shared the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actress with Sandra Dee and Diane Varsi, and appeared with Elvis Presley in King Creole (1958). Our Morticia wig makes the ideal accessory to the popular costume with extra long, jet black hair in a poker straight and gloriously thick design. She donated her Morticia costume and wig to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, while a collection of The Addams Family scripts was donated by Bailey-Britton to UCLA. These instantly-recognisable characters all have perfect accessories to go with them, completing the look and making sure nobody has to ask who you’ve come as!
Even after being diagnosed with colon cancer, Jones continued to work, telling colleagues that she was being treated for ulcers. In the 1962–1963 season, Jones guest-starred on CBS's The Lloyd Bridges Show, which Spelling created. She appeared in two Rod Cameron syndicated series, City Detective and State Trooper, as Betty Fowler in the 1956 episode, "The Paperhanger of Pioche”.While studying at the Pasadena Playhouse, Jones married Don Donaldson, a 28-year-old fellow student.
Jones began her film career in the early 1950s, and by the end of the decade had achieved recognition with a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Bachelor Party (1957) and a Golden Globe Award as one of the most promising new actresses of 1959. Her body was cremated on August 4 and a memorial service was held at Glasband-Willen Mortuary in Altadena, California, on August 5, 1983. She guest-starred in CBS's The DuPont Show with June Allyson, with James Best and Jack Mullaney, in the episode "Love on Credit" (1960).
Jones played opposite Frank Sinatra in Frank Capra's A Hole in the Head, Dean Martin in Career, and Anthony Quinn and Kirk Douglas in Last Train from Gun Hill (all 1959).
Her third marriage, in 1968, was to Tony Award-winning Broadway musical director, vocal arranger and co-producer Herbert Greene (who was her vocal coach); she left him in 1977. The following year, shortly after Capitol debuted, she was diagnosed with colon cancer, and played many of her scenes in a wheelchair.In September 1982, realizing she was dying, Jones married her boyfriend of five years, actor Peter Bailey-Britton. After their father abandoned the family in 1934, Carolyn and her younger sister, Bette Rhea Jones, [3] moved with their mother into her maternal grandparents' Amarillo home. The 'TCM Classic Movie Trivia' book has more than 4,000 questions to test your knowledge", Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2011. Jones guest starred three times on the television series Wagon Train: in first-season episode "The John Cameron Story" (1957) and in later color episodes "The Jenna Douglas Story" (1961) and "The Molly Kincaid Story" (1963). In July 1983, she fell into a coma at her home in West Hollywood, California, where she died on August 3, 1983.
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