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). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/e3383e36-aace-4b9d-adb7-bc1f9addaad3n%40googlegroups.com.
