Name
Edie Adams
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1927-04-16
Deathday
2008-10-15 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA
Biography
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.
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Known For
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Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a qui...
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Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each...
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A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them a...
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An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict p...
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The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No on...
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Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American fa...
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In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy exes into thinking ...
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A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him ...
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Julie Andrews was nominated for an Emmy for portraying the titular scullery maid who finds...
- 1960 The Apartment as Miss Olsen
- 1963 It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World as Monica Crump
- 1978 Up in Smoke as Tempest Stoner
- 1961 Lover Come Back as Rebel Davis
- 1964 The Best Man as Mabel Cantwell
- 1967 The Honey Pot as Merle McGill
- 1957 Cinderella as Fairy Godmother
- 1963 Under the Yum Yum Tree as Dr. Irene Wilson
- 1963 Love with the Proper Stranger as Barbie
- 1959 Kovacs on Music as Self
- 1966 The Oscar as Trina Yale
- 2003 Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There as Self
- 1963 Call Me Bwana as Frederica
- 1998 Doris Day: It's Magic as Self
- 1984 Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter as Mae West
- 1966 Made in Paris as Irene Chase
- 1961 The Spiral Staircase as Blanche
- 1956 Showdown at Ulcer Gulch as Wife of man in bar
- 1978 Superdome as Joyce
- 1981 The Haunting of Harrington House as Madame Zenia
- 1979 Racquet as Leslie Sargent
- 1980 Make Me an Offer as Francine Sherman
- 1975 Cop on the Beat as Massage Parlor Owner
- 1972 Evil Roy Slade as Flossie
- 1983 Shooting Stars as Hazel
- 1989 Hoodwinked as Senior Club Member
- 1978 Tarzana as Hooker
- 1980 Portrait of an Escort as Mrs. Kennedy
- 1980 A Cry for Love as Tessie
- 1980 The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood as Rita Beater
- 1991 Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' as Self
- 2008 Inside 'The Apartment' as Self
- 1979 Fast Friends as Connie Burton
- 2000 Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy as Self
- 1982 Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius as Self
- 1950 The Colgate Comedy Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1962 The Lucy Show ( 1 episode ) as Nanette Johnson
- 1980 Bosom Buddies ( 1 episode )
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1948 The Ed Sullivan Show ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1953 General Electric Theater ( 1 episode ) as Sue Ellen
- 1974 Harry O ( 1 episode )
- 1974 Police Woman ( 1 episode )
- 1964 The Hollywood Palace ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1956 The Dinah Shore Chevy Show ( 8 episodes ) as Self
- 1949 Suspense ( 1 episode )
- 1951 The Ernie Kovacs Show ( 36 episodes )
- 1976 The Practice ( 1 episode )
- 1978 The Eddie Capra Mysteries ( 1 episode )
- 1957 Tonight Starring Jack Paar ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1967 The Carol Burnett Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1977 The Love Boat ( 2 episodes ) as Maureen Buell
- 1993 Tales of the City ( 1 episode ) as Ruby Miller
- 1957 The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour ( 1 episode ) as Edie Adams
- 1959 The Bell Telephone Hour ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 5 episodes ) as Self
- 1950 What's My Line? ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1957 Suspicion ( 1 episode ) as Gloria Chrystie
- 1963 The Danny Kaye Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1984 Murder, She Wrote ( 1 episode ) as Kaye Sheppard
- 1958 Kraft Music Hall ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1969 Love, American Style ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Winslow
- 1979 Mrs. Columbo ( 1 episode ) as Joanne Huston
- 1950 The Bob Hope Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1978 Vega$ ( 1 episode ) as Angela
- 1973 Police Story ( 1 episode ) as Woman Manager
- 1979 The Seekers ( 2 episodes ) as Flora Cato
- 1956 Tony Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Performer
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Ruby Miller
