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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 guest-starred in CBS's The DuPont Show with June Allyson, with James Best and Jack Mullaney, in the episode "Love on Credit" (1960). 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.

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). Jones also appeared on the CBS anthology series Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the episode "The Cheney Vase" (1955), as a secretary assisting her scheming boyfriend Darren McGavin in attempting an art theft, and opposite Ruta Lee. Jones gained the role of the power-driven political matriarch Myrna Clegg in the CBS daytime soap opera Capitol in 1981.She guest-starred on the 1960s TV series Batman, playing Marsha, the Queen of Diamonds, [5] and in 1976 appeared as the title character's mother, Hippolyta, in the Wonder Woman TV series. An eternal favourite among Halloween enthusiasts is the not-so-evil Morticia Addams, played by Angelica Houston in the fabulous film series. In July 1983, she fell into a coma at her home in West Hollywood, California, where she died on August 3, 1983. Jones 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 and aspired to become an actress. In 1964, she began playing the role of matriarch Morticia Addams in the original black and white television series The Addams Family.

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. 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. Jones converted to Judaism upon being married to television producer Aaron Spelling from 1953 until their 1964 separation and divorce. 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. Her body was cremated on August 4 and a memorial service was held at Glasband-Willen Mortuary in Altadena, California, on August 5, 1983.Carolyn Sue Jones [1] (April 28, 1930– August 3, 1983) [2] was an American actress of television and film. 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. 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).

In September 1982, realizing she was dying, Jones married her boyfriend of five years, actor Peter Bailey-Britton. In the epic Western How the West Was Won (1963), she played the role of Sheriff Jeb Rawlings' ( George Peppard) wife. Jones appeared in several episodes of Dragnet starring Jack Webb from 1953-1955, credited as ‘’Caroline Jones’’. The following year, shortly after Capitol debuted, she was diagnosed with colon cancer, and played many of her scenes in a wheelchair.

A bout of pneumonia forced her to withdraw; the role earned Donna Reed the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. 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).