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! 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. Jones gained the role of the power-driven political matriarch Myrna Clegg in the CBS daytime soap opera Capitol in 1981. In 1964, she began playing the role of matriarch Morticia Addams in the original black and white television series The Addams Family.

She appeared in two Rod Cameron syndicated series, City Detective and State Trooper, as Betty Fowler in the 1956 episode, "The Paperhanger of Pioche”. 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 converted to Judaism upon being married to television producer Aaron Spelling from 1953 until their 1964 separation and divorce. 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.

Even after being diagnosed with colon cancer, Jones continued to work, telling colleagues that she was being treated for ulcers. 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. 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. Jones appeared in several episodes of Dragnet starring Jack Webb from 1953-1955, credited as ‘’Caroline Jones’’. 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?

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. 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.The 'TCM Classic Movie Trivia' book has more than 4,000 questions to test your knowledge", Los Angeles Times, September 19, 2011.

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. 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.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). In the 1962–1963 season, Jones guest-starred on CBS's The Lloyd Bridges Show, which Spelling created.