Yvonne De Carlo, vamp and Munster

LOS ANGELES - Yvonne De Carlo, 84, the beautiful star who played Moses' wife in

The Ten Commandments

but achieved her greatest popularity on TV's

The Munsters

, has died.

She died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility outside Los Angeles, Kevin Burns, a friend and television producer, said yesterday.

The actress, whose figure helped launch her career in B-movie westerns, rose to more important roles in the 1950s.

Later, she had a key role in a landmark Broadway musical, Stephen Sondheim's Follies.

But for TV viewers, she will always be known as Lily Munster in the 1964-66 slapstick horror-movie spoof The Munsters.

Ms. De Carlo was able to sustain a long career by repeatedly reinventing herself. A longtime student of voice, she sang opera at the Hollywood Bowl. When movie roles became scarce, she ventured into stage musicals.

Her greatest stage triumph came on Broadway in 1971 with Follies, which won the 1972 Tony for best original musical score. She belted out Sondheim's showstopper, "I'm Still Here," a former star's defiant recounting of her life.

Ms. De Carlo, a native of Canada, began her career with a parade of bit parts in films of the early 1940s.

In 1956, Cecil B. DeMille chose her to play Sephora, wife to Charlton Heston's Moses in The Ten Commandments.

In 1955, she married Bob Morgan, a stunt man, and the marriage produced two sons, Bruce and Michael. The couple eventually divorced.