Edie Adams
Birth name	Elizabeth Edith Enke
Born	April 16, 1927 (1927-04-16) (age 80) Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA
Other name(s)	Edith Adams
Spouse(s)	Ernie Kovacs (1954-1962) Marty Mills (1964) (divorced) Pete Candoli (1972-1989)

Edie Adams (born Elizabeth Edith Enke) is an American singer and light comedienne who was born on April 16, 1927, in Kingston, Pennsylvania. She is a graduate of both the Juilliard School of Music and the Columbia School of Drama. She was "Miss U.S. Television" in 1950. In those early television days, she was known as Edith Adams. April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Kingston is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River, opposite Wilkes Barre. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Pete Candoli is an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast of the US. He has played with the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, and many others. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... Year 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Kingston is a borough in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, on the Susquehanna River, opposite Wilkes Barre. ... The Juilliard School is one of the worlds premiere performing arts conservatory located in New York City, it is informally identified as simply Juilliard, and trains in the fields of Dance, Drama, and Music. ... Year 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She began her career in television working with comedian Ernie Kovacs. They married on September 12, 1954, and remained together until his death in a car accident on January 13, 1962. They had a daughter, Mia Susan, who was also killed in a car accident (in 1982) at the age of 22. Kovacs was a noted cigar smoker, and Edie did TV commercials for Muriel Cigars. She remained the pitch-lady for Muriel well after Kovacs' death, intoning in a Mae West style and sexy outfit, "Why don't you pick one up and smoke it sometime?" Another commercial showed the alluring Adams singing, "Hey, big spender, spend a little dime with me." A Muriel cigar then cost a dime. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... September 12 is the 255th day of the year (256th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... January 13 is the 13th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ...

Kovacs' network, ABC, gave Edie a chance with her own show, Here's Edie, but it was a one-season casualty. Edie made sporadic appearances through the decades on television, including on Designing Women. The American Broadcasting Company ( oftenly known as ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... Designing Women was an American television sitcom that centered around the working and personal lives of four women in an interior design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. ...

Edie Adams married actor Marty Mills in 1964. He was the father of her son, Josh Mills, her surviving child. However, the marriage ended in divorce. Her most recent marriage was to noted trumpet player Pete Candoli, which lasted from 1972 until their divorce in 1989. They toured and performed together, with Candoli serving as her music director. 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Pete Candoli is an American jazz trumpeter based on the West Coast of the US. He has played with the big bands of Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, and many others. ... Year 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar). ...

She starred on Broadway in Wonderful Town (1953) opposite Rosalind Russell, and in Li'l Abner (1956). She played "Miss Olsen" in the 1960 filmThe Apartment and is one of the few surviving headliners from the all-star movie, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963). Note on spelling: While most Americans use er (as per American spelling conventions), the majority of venues, performers and trade groups for live theatre use re. ... Logo for the 2003 Broadway revival of Wonderful Town Wonderful Town is a musical with lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green and music by Leonard Bernstein. ... Lil Abner is a musical theatre production based on the comic strip Lil Abner by Al Capp. ... The Apartment is a 1960 romantic comedy-drama directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray. ... Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is an American motion picture directed by Stanley Kramer about a madcap pursuit of $350,000 of stolen cash by a diverse group of strangers. ...

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Filmography

• Showdown at Ulcer Gulch (1956) (short subject)
• The Apartment (1960)
• Lover Come Back (1961)
• Call Me Bwana (1963)
• Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
• Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
• The Best Man (1964)
• Made in Paris (1966)
• The Oscar (1966)
• The Honey Pot (1967)
• Up in Smoke (1978)
• Racquet (1979)
• The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980)
• Boxoffice (1982)
• Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2003) (documentary)

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Television Work

• Ernie in Kovacsland (1951) (canceled after 2 months)
• The Ernie Kovacs Show (1952-1956)
• Cinderella (1957)
• Take a Good Look (panelist from 1960-1961)
• Here's Edie (1963-1964)
• Evil Roy Slade (1972)
• Cop on the Beat (1975)
• Superdome (1978)
• Fast Friends (1979)
• The Seekers (1979)
• Make Me an Offer (1980)
• Portrait of an Escort (1980)
• A Cry for Love (1980)
• The Haunting of Harrington House (1981)
• As the World Turns (cast member in 1982)
• Shooting Stars (1983)
• Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (1984)
• Adventures Beyond Belief (1987)
• Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989)
• Tales of the City (1993) (miniseries)

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External links

• Edie Adams at the Internet Movie Database
• erniekovacs.net an Ernie Kovacs Tribute Site
• Edie's patent for a cigar holder ring