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Oct 25, 2023 · Determined to make her daughter the entertainment star that she never was, Marie De Carlo took a teenage Margaret Middleton from Vancouver to Los Angeles in the 1930s. Looking to supplement her daughter's exhibited natural singing talent, Maria enrolled her daughter in a dance academy, which she attended in addition to a regular school.
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Her mother, Marie De Carlo, was born in France to a Sicilian father and a Scottish mother. Marie, a "wayward and rebellious" teenager, aspired to become a dancer and worked as a milliner's apprentice until she met Peggy's father, William Shelto Middleton. [1]
Yvonne De Carlo. Actress: The Ten Commandments. Yvonne De Carlo was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton on September 1, 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was three when her father abandoned the family.
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- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
Yvonne De Carlo was cast as Sephora opposite Charlton Heston’s Moses in the American biblical epic film ‘The Ten Commandments’. Released in October 1956, the film initially earned $122.7 million at the box-office and won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.
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Yvonne De Carlo was born Margaret Yvonne Middleton on September 1, 1922 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. She was three when her father abandoned the family. Her mother turned to waitressing in a restaurant to make ends meet--a rough beginning for an actress who would, one day, be one of Hollywood's elite. Yvonne's mother wanted her to be in ...
Although the film Harvard, Here I Come! (1941) was quite lame, Yvonne glowed in her brief appearance as a bathing beauty. The rest of 1942 and 1943 saw her in more uncredited roles in films that did not quite set Hollywood on fire. In The Deerslayer (1943), she played Wah-Tah. The role did not amount to much, but it was much better than the ones sh...
Her next film was the western comedy Frontier Gal (1945) as Lorena Dumont. After a year off the screen in 1946, she returned in 1947 as Cara de Talavera in Song of Scheherazade (1947), and many agreed that the only thing worth watching in the film was Yvonne. Her next film was the highly regarded Burt Lancaster prison film Brute Force (1947). Time ...
In 1956, she appeared in the film that would immortalize her best, The Ten Commandments (1956). She played Sephora, the wife of Moses (Charlton Heston). The film was, unquestionably, a super smash, and is still shown on television today. Her performance served as a springboard to another fine role, this time as Amantha Starr in Band of Angels (1957...
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- January 8, 2007
Oct 31, 2021 · English: Canadian-born American actress Yvonne De Carlo and her mother, Marie De Carlo Middleton, at the Florentine Gardens.
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May 2, 2024 · Abandoned by her father when she was very young, she was raised by her mother, Marie De Carlo, who was the one who first encouraged her to become a dancer and later supported her transition into acting.
