Morticia Addams is one of the main characters from The Addams Family. Morticia is the wife of Gomez Addams and mother of Wednesday and Pugsley. She is the real head of the family. She is low-voiced, incisive and subtle. Her smiles are rare. A ruined beauty, Morticia is contemptuous and original; with fierce family loyalty. She is even in disposition, muted, witty, and sometimes deadly.
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Morticia is slim, with extremely pale skin and long flowing straight black hair. She commonly wears black hobble dressesto match her hair, tightly form fitting, with a fringe of octopus-like cloth "tentacles" at the lower hem. The character originated in the Charles Addams cartoons for The New Yorkermagazine in the 1930s. In the cartoons, none of the family members had names. When the characters were adapted to the 1964 television series, Charles Addams' selection of her name was inspired by "mortician". Morticia's maiden name is "Frump" and she has an older sister named Ophelia. In the television series, her mother is Granny Frump and her uncle is Fester. Her mother-in-law is Grandmama Addams. In the 1990s Addams Family films, familial relationships are changed for the characters of Grandmama and Fester. Grandmama is actually Morticia's mother, not Gomez's, while Fester is Gomez's brother, not Morticia's uncle.