Talk:Carolyn Jones

Perspective and 'Tone'
This article needs some help in spots.

Examples: In "Early Life" "Carolyn suffered from severe asthma that often restricted her from childhood activities" This needs attribution/verification. "Often"? which "Activities"?

In "Death" "Carolyn continued on the best she could. She told friends that she was having treatments for ulcers.... In the meantime, Carolyn quietly went through treatment. She worked during the day, and went to the hospital for chemotherapy at night. No one knew. She kept her illness a complete secret. It seemed that the cancer had gone into remission, but in late 1982 it returned and spread. Treatments were ineffective.

Quietly? NO ONE knew? A COMPLETE Secret? That's all very hard to believe. How do we know any of this...? It "seemed"...? This is fraught with problems and reads like the National Inquirer (Enquirer?) - full of conjecture and unsubstantiated statements.

And then.. Seeing that the end was near, in Sept 1982 Carolyn wed her boyfriend of five years, actor Peter Bailey-Britton. She wore a lace and ribbon cap to hide the fact that she lost her hair to chemotherapy.

"Seeing" the end..? Should be "sensing" as this is not something you can literally "see". The statement about the lace cap etc. may well be the case, but again, there is no documentation as to why she would have worn that, nor that she had lost her hair at that point. It may well be true but it needs the proper attribution in Wikipedia.

The article should be generally cleaned-up to Wikipedia standards IMO. I am not involved enough with the Wikipedia community to attempt this - every time I do my changes are instantly reversed, so I leave it to the more accepted editors to take care of. Thank you... Moucon (talk) 19:18, 17 November 2012 (UTC)


 * It’s still got some confusing bits in - the run down of her post-Addams career is in the “Career” section - but then re-starts in the “Personal Life &Illness” section, with a different tone, and a mention of a notable part which would be contiguous with (but isn’t included in) the parts in the main section, as well as duplicating her soap opera role, but with different information. Jock123 (talk) 10:53, 7 November 2018 (UTC)

Birth year
Jones once reported her birthyear as 1933 and said she added 3 years to her age to enter the Pasadena Playhouse. In fact, she was born in 1930.
 * Most sources I know give her birthdate as April 28 1929....

Cancer
I'm confused: If Jone's colon cancer was diagnosed in 1982, how was Jacqueline Susann inquiring about her health when Susann died in 1974?

Didn't she also develop breast cancer at some point? Sage Sophia (talk) 14:46, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

Third Marriage
Spouse(s) Peter Bailey-Britton (1982–1983)

is inconsistent with

"and she died in 1983 at her home in West Hollywood, California, a month after her marriage to her long-time boyfriend,"

given that she died in August.--Nickpheas (talk) 22:24, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

Caroline and Comic Book Adaptations
I added notations concerning her appearances in TV shows based on comic book characters: on BATMAN she played Marsha the Queen of Diamonds, an ally of The Penguin and on Wonder Woman, she was one of the three(?) actresses who played WW's mother Hypolyte.MARK VENTURE (talk) 05:49, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

You Rang?
I seem to remember having read that she would often answer the phone with he co-star Ted Cassidys star phrase. Does anyone know of this is true, and if so, should it be added? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.230.40.210 (talk) 00:09, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't remember that at all. Generally, she just said, "Hello?... Yes, this is Mrs. Addams." (Insofar as she had a catchphrase on the show, it was probably, "Thank you, Thing.") But I would agree that the section on her "Addams Family" work ought to be expanded; the impression left by the article as it stands is that the show was just one of many projects in a distinguished career, when in reality three-quarters of the people who visit this page probably know her best or only as Morticia Addams. -Agur bar Jacé (talk) 21:00, 13 October 2011 (UTC)

MONEY
Was she rich? How much money did she have? Did she squander it all? --68.118.188.188 (talk) 17:38, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia isn't ET. Dennis Brown &#124; 2¢ &#124;  WER  17:49, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Wonder Woman not The New Adventures of Wonder Woman
Television career lists her as starring in The New Adventures of Wonder Woman. This was the title of the television series from its second season onwards because it was set in the present day not WWII as per the original comic. Carolyn only appeared in the first season which used the simple title Wonder Woman. Mcnaugha (talk) 17:00, 17 August 2014 (UTC)

Whose home?
This sentence from the article - 'After her father abandoned the family in 1934, Carolyn and her younger sister, Bette Rhea Jones,[3] moved with their mother into her parents' Amarillo home.' - is somewhat confusing. It implies she and her sister were not living with her parents prior to that time and moved into her parents house after her father left. I'll try to track down the 'facts' on the matter unless another editor, perhaps one who worked on this article, has the info already in hand. Thanks! THX1136 (talk) 21:44, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
 * They moved into their mother's parents (Carolyn and her sister's grandparents) home. The last "her" is referring to the sisters' mother. oknazevad (talk) 03:45, 12 June 2022 (UTC)