A five-year-old Loring played the original pigtailed oddball and she’s been adored ever since by horror nerds, comedy fans and generations of women who felt empowered by her
Loring’s spell on the sitcom would end with its cancellation in 1966, but she returned in Technicolor alongside the original cast for a 1977 Halloween special TV film. Now a teenager, but still in the same pigtails and black dress, she brought a surly new monotone to Wednesday, while still making her innately lovable.
In the decades that followed, Loring appeared in a series of sitcoms, soaps and the occasional slasher film but never secured another part as iconic as Wednesday Addams. While no longer in the limelight, she raised two daughters who were by her bedside this week after a stroke that proved fatal.
Now, after her death at the age of 64, the only living member of that Addams family is John Astin, who played her father, Gomez Addams. But the legacy of the show about lovable outsiders continues, and the reruns show they have not lost their charm. The finger snaps in the theme tune, the Groucho Marx-esque wit and the subversive look at US family values have not dulled with time.
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