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An actress who earned an Academy Award nomination for The Bachelor Party (1957) and a Golden Globe the same year for Marjorie Morningstar, before becoming permanently associated with a very different role: Morticia Addams on the original The Addams Family sitcom from 1964. She converted to Judaism upon her 1953 marriage to television producer Aaron Spelling, a union that lasted until their 1964 divorce.