How was Cousin Itt's voice done?

Silla's instructions were simply to walk around on the set, as Itt's voice (provided by sound engineer Tony Magro) was dubbed in post-production, but he often had difficulty seeing through the costume.
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Does Cousin Itt talk backwards?

Cousin Itt's actual speech is simply Snoop Dogg's lines played backward, so though he is indeed responding to everything other characters are saying to him, his replies are in reverse.
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Is Cousin Itt male or female?

In the 1992 animated series, Itt (voiced by Pat Fraley) is depicted as a carefree bachelor who is often seen in the company of female companions. He is also a secret agent that is often targeted by the Spy Twins.
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Was Cousin Itt a midget?

In part due to his short stature of 1.19 m (3 ft 11 in), he often doubled for children in such movies as The Towering Inferno, The Hindenburg, and Battlestar Galactica.
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Did cousin it have a wife?

Cousin Itt drove a three-wheeled car: a Messerschmitt KR175. He was quite the playboy, even romancing Morticia's sister Ophelia Frump. He later fell in love with Margaret Alford and married her after her husband, Tully, was disposed of by the Addams children.
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Are Morticia and Gomez cousins?

Background. Morticia is the wife of Gomez Addams and mother of Wednesday, Pugsley and Pubert Addams. The character originated in the Charles Addams cartoons for The New Yorker magazine in the 1930s.
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What makes The Addams Family's Cousin Itt look different?

The character's heavy costume was first constructed with real hair but later changed to a fire-retardant synthetic, as smoking was common on-set and the real hair was therefore a fire hazard.
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Who died from The Addams Family?

Felix Silla, the actor best known for playing the hairy Cousin Itt on the sitcom “The Addams Family,” died on April 16. He was 84.
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What kind of hat does cousin it wear?

Cousin Itt is one of the extended family members who visit from time to time. He's a bit of a playboy and loves to show off his 3-wheeled car. He's entirely covered in hair and wears a bowler hat and sunglasses for a smart finish.
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Is Addams Family Based on a true story?

The Addams Family is a fictional family created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. They originally appeared in a series of 150 unrelated single-panel cartoons, about half of which were originally published in The New Yorker over a 50-year period since their inception in 1938.
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Who played cousin Cackle on The Addams Family?

Don Mcart (1922–2012)
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Who wore the cousin it costume?

Felix Silla, whose long career in Hollywood included the role of Cousin Itt on “The Addams Family,” gathers with friends for pizza in Las Vegas. A saucy redhead strolls into the pizzeria and spots the veteran actor who performed countless TV and film cameos throughout the 1960s and '70s. “Cousin Itt!” she shrieks.
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What is it saying in Addams Family 2?

Gomez Addams: Let's go, Wednesday. It's time for some family bonding. Whether you like it, or not.
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Who did Cousin Itt marry?

After her husband's presumed death, Margaret marries Cousin Itt, and is immediately accepted into the Addams clan as one of their own.
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Is Morticia Addams a vampire?

If anything supernatural is afoot, Morticia might be seen as a witch, but there's no real evidence she's a vampire. Rather, her black ensemble and pale characteristics are fashionable rather than signs she's moving beyond the grave.
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Why is Wednesday Addams called Wednesday?

Addams, by the way, didn't name any of the Addams Family characters until they were developed for television in the 1960s. He named Wednesday after the nursery rhyme “Monday's Child,” which includes the line “Wednesday's child is full of woe.”
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Is Gomez Addams still alive?

John Astin, as Gomez Addams (1964). He is still alive today, at age 90. - History | Addams family tv show, Addams family, John astin.
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How old is cousin It from The Addams Family?

Felix Silla, best known as the gibberish-spouting Cousin Itt on the 1960s TV sitcom The Addams Family, died today from pancreatic cancer. He was 84 and died in Las Vegas, according to a tweet from Gil Gerard, who costarred with him on the 1979-81 NBC series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.
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What happened to Pugsley on The Addams Family?

According to the coroner's office, he died of natural causes. His niece, Shanyn Vieira, posted on Facebook that he had a heart attack. Pugsley was the older of the two Addams children on the cheekily macabre comedy, based on Charles Addams' darkly humored New Yorker cartoons.
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Are The Addams Family inbreds?

Definitely not. It's the inbreeding thing. Though various versions of The Addams Family quite often show the Addams clan interacting with the people outside their relatively small social group, it's rarely in a way that suggests an eventual widening of the gene pool is possible.
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Is Gomez Addams Italian or Spanish?

Like the other members of the family, Gomez's personality became largely codified by the television series. He is depicted as being of Castilian extraction and Spanish ancestry, which was first brought up in "Art and the Addams Family" on December 18, 1964.
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Why is Morticia Addams eyes lit?

In Addams Family Values (1993), Morticia Addams is always lit by one beam of light across her eyes fading outward. This technique, used originally in classic noir films, accentuates Morticia's style by parodying original implementation of this technique and is used ironically (the film is a comedy).
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