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Edie Adams
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Film & TV
Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA
Edie Adams (April 16, 1927 – October 15, 2008) was an American singer, Broadway, television and film actress and comedienne. Adams, a Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde." She was well-known for her impersonations of female stars on stage and television, most particularly, Marilyn Monroe. Description above from the Wikipedia…
Known for
- Inside 'The Apartment' — Self2008
- Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There — Self2003
- Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy — Self2000
- Doris Day: It's Magic — Self1998
- Tales of the City — Ruby Miller1993
- Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' — Self1991
- Hoodwinked — Senior Club Member1989
- Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter — Mae West1984
- Murder, She Wrote — Kaye Sheppard1984
- Shooting Stars — Hazel1983
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Key facts
- Born
- Edith Elizabeth Enke , ( 1927-04-16 ) April 16, 1927, Kingston, Pennsylvania , U.S.
- Died
- October 15, 2008 (2008-10-15) (aged 81), Los Angeles, California, U.S.
- Resting place
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills
- Other names
- Edythe Adams, Edith Adams, Edith Candoli
- Education
- Juilliard School ( BM ), Columbia University ( BA ), Actors Studio
- Occupations
- Comedian actress singer businesswoman
- Years active
- 1950–2004
- Spouses
- Ernie Kovacs ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1954 ; died 1962 ) Martin Mills ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1971 ) Pete Candoli ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1972 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1988 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edie
- Family name
- Adams
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Kingston
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Spouse
- Ernie Kovacs
- Occupation
- comedian
- Languages spoken
- French
- Instrument
- voice
- Image
- Edie adams 1957 publicity photo.JPG
- Number of children
- 2
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- described at URL
- www.masterworksbroadway.com/artist/edith-adams
- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Commons category
- Edie Adams
- date of birth
- 1927-04-16
- date of death
- 2008-10-15
- cause of death
- pneumonia
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- Edith Elizabeth Enke
- start of work period
- 1951-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Edie Adams (born Edith Elizabeth Enke; April 16, 1927 – October 15, 2008) was an American comedian, actress, singer and businesswoman who was prominent in the second half of the 1900s. She earned a Tony Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award.
Adams was well known for her impersonations of sexy stars on stage and television, especially Marilyn Monroe. She was the frequent television partner of Ernie Kovacs, her husband, whose death in 1962 left Adams deeply in debt. Paying off the financial burden, she continued her successful show business career for over four more decades on stage, television and in films including It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, and was the pitchlady for Muriel Cigars for 20 years. Adams also founded two beauty businesses: Edie Adams Cosmetics and Edie Adams Cut 'n' Curl.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edie Adams” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.