Original cast of the ''Addams Family'' The dad, Gomez, was a loony millionaire who loved losing money in the stock market. Morticia, the mom, grew a man- eating plant called Cleopatra.

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Son Pugsley blew up dynamite caps, and daughter Wednesday played with a headless doll named Marie Antoinette. Based on Charles Addams’ cartoons in The New Yorker, the show aired on ABC from September 1. September 1. 96. 6, finishing in 2. CBS’ similarly ghoulish sitcom The Munsters.

But the years have been kind to Gomez, Morticia, and their brood (Addams gave them their monikers for the TV show; they had no names in his cartoons). Today, 2. 5 years after its debut, the show is still being shown in more than 3.

Watch Freeform (formerly ABC Family) TV shows online like Pretty Little Liars, Shadowhunters and more! The "Addams Groove" music video played before the film during its first few weeks in theaters. The final track on Too Legit to Quit would end up being MC Hammer's. THE ADDAMS FAMILY A NEW MUSICAL. Book by MARSHALL BRICKMAN and RICK ELICE Music and Lyrics by ANDREW LIPPA Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams.

Time, however, has been less gracious to the cast. Only four of the original eight members are still alive.

Blossom Rock, who played Grandmama Addams, died in 1. Lumbering Ted Cassidy, who played Lurch and Thing (the hand), died after open- heart surgery in 1. Former leading lady Carolyn Jones (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), who starred as Morticia, died of cancer in 1.

He was also frequent tabloid fodder from 1. TV star Patty Duke. Lisa Loring, 3. 3, who played Wednesday, has kept busy too: She married and had a baby at 1. TV comeback at 2. Cricket Montgomery on As the World Turns. Today she lives in L. A. Silla was last seen in the early ’8.

Buck Rodgers in the 2. Century, starring as the pint- size robot, Twiki. In short, don’t expect an Addams Family TV reunion anytime soon.

Creepy, Kooky Facts About 'The Addams Family'Starting in 1. Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Grandmama, Wednesday, Pugsley, and Thing appeared in The New Yorker in a series of cartoons by Charles Addams. After two seasons in the mid- '6.

Saturday morning cartoon in the '7. Addams family seemed destined to solely exist in illustration form. Then, after Charles Addams' passing in 1. The Addams Family movie brought the pale gang to the cinema. Here are a few things you might not have known about the film. THE IDEA TO BRING BACK THE ADDAMS FAMILY CAME FROM A CAR RIDE. Scott Rudin, head of production at 2. Big Fat Liar 2 Full Movie In English.

Century Fox, was riding in a van with other company executives one day after a movie screening. MC HAMMER WROTE AN AWARD- WINNING SONG FOR THE MOVIE. The final track on Too Legit to Quit would end up being MC Hammer's last visit to the top 1. Billboard singles charts in the U.

S. It also won the 1. Golden Raspberry for Worst Original Song, beating out fellow nominees . ANTHONY HOPKINS TURNED DOWN THE ROLE OF FESTER. Hopkins instead opted to play Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs (he got the role after Sean Connery was initially approached). Hopkins would win the Best Actor Oscar for his performance. TIM BURTON WAS INITIALLY SET TO DIRECT. Burton had worked with Addams Family screenwriters Caroline Thompson and Larry Wilson on previous projects, but ended up not taking the job.

Almost 2. 0 years later, Burton was rumored to be developing a 3. D stop- motion animated Addams Family movie, but it was announced last year that he was off the project. IT WAS BARRY SONNENFELD'S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT. The Addams Family was Barry Sonnenfeld's directorial debut, but he had experience as a cinematographer on films like Blood Simple, Big, Raising Arizona, Misery, When Harry Met Sally.., and Miller's Crossing.

After his agent told him that he would lick a carpet if he couldn't find him a directing job within one year, he found Sonnenfeld a seemingly plum first time assignment helming a high profile movie (in less than a year). As a joke, Scott Rudin let it be known to Sonnenfeld that he wasn't his first choice by putting a different director's name on the back of the director's chair every morning on set. Some of the names that replaced Sonnenfeld's were Joe Dante, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, and Rudin's first choice, Tim Burton. SONNENFELD FAINTED DURING SHOOTING. Three weeks into directing, Sonnenfeld was talking to a studio executive who was concerned about the budget for the film when he felt a . He also dealt with sciatica during filming, and had to shut down the Los Angeles production for several days when his wife needed major surgery in New York.

THERE WAS A . His replacement, Gayl Tattersoll, stopped production for a couple of days when he needed to be hospitalized for a sinus infection, and never returned. Sonnenfeld ended up doing the job himself. In front of the camera, a blood vessel burst in the eye of Raul Julia, the actor who played Gomez. These incidents led the future Get Shorty and Men In Black director to say that he felt like there was a . THERE WAS AN ACTOR REBELLION, LED BY 1.

YEAR- OLD CHRISTINA RICCI. The actors were concerned about the ambiguity of the big Fester storyline in the script. Initially, it was going to be unknown if Gordon, the man suffering from memory loss that looked just like Uncle Fester, was actually Fester. The actors nominated Wednesday Addams herself, Christina Ricci, to give an impassioned plea to Rudin and Sonnenfeld two weeks before shooting that Fester should not be an imposter. Sonnenfeld remembered that the only actor to not care was Christopher Lloyd, the man playing Fester.

ANJELICA HUSTON WATCHED . Huston, who grew up in Ireland, was more familiar with the Charles Addams drawings than the old TV show, and decided it would be pointless to try and replicate actress Carolyn Jones' . The future Academy Award winner turned to the 1. Grey Gardens—a movie about the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy who lived in a deteriorating mansion filled with garbage and animal waste—for inspiration instead. HUSTON HAD TO GO THROUGH A LOT TO GET INTO CHARACTER.''Morticia has a shape only a cartoonist can draw,'' Sonnenfeld told Entertainment Weekly, ''so we lashed Anjelica into a metal corset that created this hips- and- waist thing I've never seen any woman have in reality.'' The role also required Huston to get gauze eye lifts, neck tucks, and fake nails daily. THE COMPANY FINANCING THE MOVIE SOLD IT WHILE IT WAS BEING FILMED.

Because Orion Pictures had the rights to The Addams Family, they were the ones responsible for financing and potentially releasing the movie. Even though there were some budget concerns, selling the movie to another company was something Rudin and Sonnenfeld had not even considered.

But three- quarters of the way through filming, Rudin was informed that Orion had sold the movie to Paramount by Hollywood Reporter writer Andrea King. Even though Rudin was also working on a movie at the time with Paramount, in addition with having phone conversations daily with Orion over The Addams Family, he had absolutely no idea. Even though Broadway veterans were hired to write the traditional Addams clan number, most of the scene was cut because a California test audience mostly composed of 1. THE STUDIOS WERE SUED AS SOON AS THE MOVIE CAME OUT.

David Levy, the executive producer of the old Addams Family TV series, sued Paramount and Orion after the movie was released to surprising commercial success. Levy claimed that too many of his ideas, which were originally from his show and not from the Charles Addams cartoons, were used in the movie. Levy, who still owned the rights to the TV show, created specific character quirks and concepts that were used in the movie, such as Gomez' love of blowing up toy trains, and Thing being a disembodied hand, as opposed to being a normal background character in the cartoons. Paramount and Levy ultimately settled out of court.