Death of actress Lisa Loring, the Wednesday of the series “The Addams Family” in the 1960s
She was the first to play Wednesday, the little girl of the Addams family, on screen. Long before Jenna Ortega and Christina Ricci. American actress Lisa Loring died last Saturday of a heart attack at the age of 64. She was best known for playing the reckless Wednesday, in the first television adaptation of the Charles Addams comics, which aired in the 1960s.
“It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of our friend, Lisa Loring,” producer Laurie Jacobson said on Facebook. She allegedly suffered a massive stroke brought on by smoking and high blood pressure, according to the post. While she had been on artificial respiration for three days, her family took the decision on Saturday to stop medical assistance. Lisa Loring died overnight. “She will remain etched in the pop culture mural and in our hearts forever as Wednesday Addams. »
A role she held in this black and white series, from 1964 to 1966. In December, Jenna Ortega, the interpreter of Wednesday in the eponymous series by Tim Burton which is a hit on Netflixsaid that she was inspired by Lisa Loring for her famous dance scene: “I knew there were certain things I absolutely wanted to do. I paid tribute to Lisa Loring, the first Wednesday Addams. I redid his shuffle a bit, his famous dance… It was cut, but it’s there somewhere…”
Lisa Loring subsequently had a very meager career, recalls the AlloCiné site. In 1966, she played the daughter of a wealthy family living in Long Island in “The Pruitts of Southampton”, a series which lasted only one season, then a role in “Annie, very special agent”. Then she disappeared from the screens for a decade and returned for the TV movie “The Addams Family: Party Time”, broadcast in 1977.
