Morticia Addams

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Morticia Frump Addams is the fictional matriarch of The Addams Family created by cartoonist Charles Addams.

Morticia is the wife of Gomez Addams and mother to Wednesday and Pugsley. The character originated in the Charles Addams comics for The New Yorker magazine in the 1930s. In the comics, none of the family members had names. When the characters were adapted to the television series The Addams Family (1964) Charles Addams gave her the name "Morticia", implying "death" (derived from "mors mortis", the Latin word for "death"). Morticia's maiden name is "Frump" and she has an opposite sister named Ophelia. In the television series, she had a mother named Hester Frump (played by Margaret Hamilton). Her mother-in-law is Grandmama Addams.

Morticia serves as the heart and soul of the Addams Family. She is described as a vamp. She has pale skin and long, flowing black hair, and she commonly wears long, black gothic dresses to match her hair. She is a glamorous and exotic seductress who easily allures her husband Gomez simply by speaking French (or any other foreign language for that matter). Morticia is elegant, artistic and musically inclined. She sings opera, dances the tango and plays numerous musical instruments. She frequently enjoys cutting the buds off of roses which she discards, keeping only the stems. She also has a carnivorous plant named Cleopatra which she enjoys feeding.

Morticia was portrayed by Carolyn Jones in the TV series of the 1960s and by Anjelica Houston in The Addams Family film (1991) and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993). Daryl Hannah played Morticia in the 1998 film Addams Family Reunion.

[edit] Trivia

• Morticia, along with a bearded Lurch, appeared in the very first Addams Family cartoon for The New Yorker magazine

The Addams Family
Characters
Gomez Addams | Morticia Addams | Pugsley Addams | Wednesday Addams | Uncle Fester | Grandmama | Lurch | Thing | Cousin Itt
TV
The Addams Family | The New Addams Family
Films
The Addams Family (1991) | Addams Family Values (1993) | Addams Family Reunion (1998)
Games
Fester's Quest (1989) | The Addams Family (pinball) (1991) | Addams Family (1992) | The Addams Family: Pugsley's Scavenger Hunt (1993) | Addams Family Values (1994) | Addams Family (1994)