Edie Adams
Edie Adams
Born Elizabeth Edith Enke, on April 16, 1927, in Kingston, PA, Edie Adams was a graduate of both the Juilliard School of Music and the Columbia School of Drama. She began her career in television, utilizing her singing and comedic talent as a regular on the popular Ernie Kovacs Show in the early '50s. Adams and Kovacs were married in 1955 and remained together until his death in 1962. Before appearing in films, she starred on Broadway in Wonderful Town (1953) and Li'l Abner (1956). Her first major film role was playing Miss Olsen in Billy Wilder's 1960 comedy The Apartment. The film work that followed cast Adams in mostly secondary roles that highlighted her talent for comedy and displayed her spirited presence. Other films include: Lover Come Back (1961), Call Me Bwana (1963), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963), Love With the Proper Stranger (1963), The Best Man (1964), Made in Paris, The Oscar (1966), The Honey Pot (1967), Up in Smoke (1978), and Raquet (1979). Adams also appeared in the documentary Kovacs in 1971. She spent her last few decades making periodic guest appearances on such television programs as Designing Women, Fantasy Island and The Love Boat, and died of pneumonia and cancer in 2008. ~ All Movie Guide
Filmography of Edie Adams:
- Broadway: The Golden Age with Bea Arthur , Elizabeth Ashley , Alec Baldwin , Kaye Ballard , Carol Burnett , Carol Channing , Hume Cronyn , Alan Cumming , Arlene Dahl , Nanette Fabray , Robert Goulet , Julie Harris , Rosemary Harris , Celeste Holm , Jeremy Irons , Cherry Jones , Martin Landau , Frank Langella , Angela Lansbury , Hal Linden , Shirley MacLaine , Karl Malden , Ann Miller , Patricia Neal , Jerry Orbach , Charles Nelson Reilly , Gena Rowlands , Eva Marie Saint , Liev Schreiber , Stephen Sondheim , Maureen Stapleton , Elaine Stritch , Gwyneth Verdon , Eli Wallach , Fay Wray
- Up in Smoke with Cheech Marin , Tommy Chong , Stacy Keach , Tom Skerritt , Strother Martin
- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with Spencer Tracy , Milton Berle , Sid Caesar , Buddy Hackett , Mickey Rooney , Ethel Merman , Phil Silvers , Dick Shawn , Jimmy Durante , Buster Keaton , Jonathan Winters , Dorothy Provine , Eddie "Rochester" Anderson , Ben Blue , William Demarest , Peter Falk , Paul Ford , Leo Gorcey , Edward Everett Horton , Don Knotts , Carl Reiner , Andy Devine , Sterling Holloway , Marvin Kaplan , Charles McGraw , ZaSu Pitts , Madlyn Rhue , Arnold Stang , Jesse White , Lloyd Corrigan , Norman Fell , Jim Backus , Joe E. Brown , Stanley Clements , Howard DaSilva , Larry Fine , Moe Howard , Allen Jenkins , Harry Lauter , Mike Mazurki , Roy Roberts , Terry-Thomas , Doodles Weaver , Jerry Lewis
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