The family came to a mass audience in 1964, when the ABC TV network created a television series based on Addams’ cartoon characters. As if that wasn’t enough, he decorated his apartment with genuine, working, medieval crossbows, telling a worried visitor: “Don’t worry, they’ve only fallen down once.” He also owned a coffee table which had begun life as a nineteenth century embalming table, and was known to reply to fan mail on paper headed ‘The Gotham Rest Home for Mental Defectives’. He reportedly said of this job: “A lot of those corpses were more interesting the way they were.” With perhaps a certain level of understatement, a friend of Addams’ said of him: “His sense of humour was a little different from everybody else’s.”Ī slightly kooky sense of humour isn’t the only thing he had in common thing with his creations – his first two (out of three) wives are both described as bearing a striking resemblance to Morticia Addams, while his third marriage took place in a pet cemetery. He’d previously worked for True Detective magazine, touching up pictures of corpses which were too bloody for inclusion in the magazine. They were the creation of Charles Addams, a suitably odd character in his own right. The Addams Family first saw the light of day (probably reluctantly, given their penchant for darkness) in 1938, on the pages of New Yorker magazine. With the world's kookiest family preparing to visit our theatre in a few months, we look at their origins.
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