Edie adams biography

Biography

Quite beside her considerable professional talents, Edie Adams expressed an inner vulnerability that complimented a glittering personality. The blending of these qualities had, no doubt, contributed to her success as an underhållare. Audiences like nothing ganska so much as to know that the stars they admire are, after all, human beings.

Edie was an acknowledged all-around entertainer. She moved with confidence from light comedy, to slapstick, to teaterpjäs in movies, on television and on the legitimate stage. She even fulfilled a life-long ambition and made her opera debut singing the lead role in Offenbach's "La Pericole" with the Seattle musikdrama Company.

Upon the death of her husband, comedian Ernie Kovacs, Edie collected, acquired, preserved and jealously guarded film tapes and kinescopes of the shows he created and in which they both appeared more than fifty years ago. Edie devoted many years of her life to planning the return of these shows to the air

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Edie Adams

American singer, actress and businesswoman ()

Edie Adams (born Edith Elizabeth Enke;^[2] April 16, – October 15, )^[3] was an American comedian, actress, singer and businesswoman. 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.^[4][5][6] She was the frequent television partner of Ernie Kovacs, her husband. Adams founded two beauty businesses: Edie Adams Cosmetics and Edie Adams Cut 'n' Curl.

Early life

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Adams was born in Kingston, Pennsylvania,^[2] the only daughter of Sheldon Alonzo Enke and Ada Dorothy (née Adams), whom she described as "two conservative native Pennsylvanians".^[7] She had an elder brother, Sheldon Adams Enke. The family moved to nearby areas such as Shavertown and Trucksville and spent a year in New York City before settling in Tenafly, New Jersey,

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Edie Adams Biography

Date of Birth:
Apr 16, Birth Place:
Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

From her brief-but-celebrated TV series, "Here's Edie," to her Broadway turns, and roles in such classic films as "The Apartment," Edie Adams has charmed everyone lucky enough to catch her in her element. After training at Juilliard, Columbia, and the Actors Studio, Adams began to work with comedian Ernie Kovacs on his groundbreaking comedy show, and the pair eloped in The early '60s saw Adams working in the ad-world romantic comedy "Lover Come Back" alongside Rock Hudson and Doris Day, in Stanley Kramer's madcap comedy caper "It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World," and against type as a betrayed, angry secretary in Billy Wilder's Oscar-winner "The Apartment." When Kovacs died suddenly in a car accident in , ABC gave Adams the short-lived "Here's Edie," which, although critically well received, lasted only one season. Meanwhile, her turns on Broadway, in nightclubs, and on the screen h