Editing Charles Addams (section)

==Personal life==
Addams met first wife [[Barbara Jean Day]] in late 1943, who purportedly resembled his cartoon character Morticia Addams.<ref name="maslin" /> The marriage ended eight years later after Addams declined to have children (she later married ''New Yorker'' colleague [[John Hersey]], author of the book ''[[Hiroshima (book)|Hiroshima]]'').{{sfn|Davis|2006|p=106}}

Addams married second wife Barbara Barb ([[Estelle B. Barb]]) in 1954. A practicing lawyer, she "combined Morticia-like looks with diabolical legal scheming," by which she wound up controlling the ''Addams Family'' television and film franchises and persuaded her husband to give away other legal rights.<ref name="maslin" /> At one point, she got her husband to take out a US$100,000 insurance policy. Addams consulted a lawyer on the sly, who later humorously wrote: "I told him the last time I had word of such a move was in a picture called ''[[Double Indemnity]]'' starring [[Barbara Stanwyck]], which I called to his attention." In the movie, Stanwyck's character plotted her husband's murder.<ref name="maslin" /> The couple divorced in 1956.{{sfn|Davis|2006|p=136}}

Addams was "sociable and debonair". A biographer described him as being "a well-dressed, courtly man with silvery back-combed hair and a gentle manner, he bore no resemblance to a fiend". Figuratively a "[[wikt:lady-killer|ladykiller]]", Addams accompanied women such as [[Greta Garbo]], [[Joan Fontaine]], and [[Jacqueline Kennedy]] on social occasions.<ref name="maslin" /> For about a year after the death of [[Nelson Rockefeller]], Addams dated [[Megan Marshack]], the aide who was with the former US vice president when he died.

Addams married his third and final wife Marilyn Matthews Miller, best known as "Tee" (1926&ndash;2002), in a pet cemetery.<ref name="nytimespace" /> The Addamses moved to [[Sagaponack, New York]] in 1985, where they named their estate "The Swamp".<ref>{{cite book |title=The Addams Family: An Evilution |title-link=The Addams Family: An Evilution |date=2010 |publisher=Pomegranate Communications, Incorporated |editor-first=H. Kevin |editor-last=Miserocchi |isbn=978-0-7649-5388-0}}</ref>

===Death===
Addams died on September 29, 1988, at the age of 76, at [[Saint Clare's Hospital (Manhattan)|St. Clare's Hospital and Health Center]] in New York City, having suffered a heart attack after parking his automobile. An ambulance took him from his apartment to the hospital, where he died in the emergency room.<ref name="nytimespace">{{cite news | last=Pace | first=Eric | date=September 30, 1988 | title=Charles Addams Dead at 76; Found Humor in the Macabre | work=The New York Times | access-date=October 11, 2009 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/09/30/obituaries/charles-addams-dead-at-76-found-humor-in-the-macabre.html}}</ref> As he had requested, a [[Wake (ceremony)|wake]] was held rather than a funeral; he had wished to be remembered as a "good cartoonist". In accordance with Addams's wishes, he was cremated, and his ashes were interred in the pet cemetery of "The Swamp" estate.{{sfn|Davis|2006|p=318}}