Original Wednesday Addams Dead at 64

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Mark Jeffries

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Jan 30, 2023, 3:05:25 PM1/30/23

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Lisa Loring played the Addams' daughter in the original 60s series at the age of 5 1/2 (memorizing lines before she could read) and then appeared with most of the original cast in the 1977 made-for "Halloween With the New Addams Family"--after the original show ended its run, she went on to the Phyllis Diller bomb "The Pruitts of Southampton" (which was renamed mid-run "The Phyllis Diller Show"--didn't help) and had a good run playing Cricket Montgomery on "As the World Turns"--of a stroke in Burbank with her daughters at her bedside:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/lisa-loring-wednesday-actress-addams-family-dead-at-64-1235312488/

Correcting the THR obit, MGM, which owns the Addams IP today (including the Netflix hit "Wednesday"), did not produce the original series--it was a Filmways presentation, dahlinks (bought by Orion Pictures in 1981, which was acquired by MGM in the late 90s).

Kevin M.

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Jan 30, 2023, 5:08:35 PM1/30/23

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Her dance with Lurch was measurably better than the present-day so-called Wednesday dance that has gone viral on the intertubes.

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