Morticia Addams but smoke instead emanates from below her. In 2009, she was included in Yahoo!'s Top 10 TV Moms from Six Decades of Television for the time period 1964–1966. AOL named her one of the 100 Most Memorable Female TV Characters. Morticia was portrayed by Carolyn Jones in the television series of the 1960s and by Anjelica Huston in "The Addams Family" (1991) and its sequel "Addams Family Values" (1993). Huston's portrayal of Morticia was always illuminated by a ghostly glow around the eyes, which became most noticeable when she was standing or lying in dim light. Daryl Hannah played Morticia
Grandmama (The Addams Family) she was regularly illustrated with shoulder-length frizzy hair and a fringed shawl. Addams described Grandmama in a 1963 character synopsis as "a disrespectful old hag" and "foolishly good-natured ... a weak character [who] is easily led." In Charles Addams' original "The New Yorker" cartoon strips, the character was referred to as Grandma Frump, therefore making her Morticia's mother. For the original television series — as well as "The New Addams Family", in which she is named Eudora Addams — her relationship to the family is retconned and she becomes Gomez's mother. However, both the feature films and animated television series