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Edie Adams

Highest Rated: 100% The Best Man (1964)

Lowest Rated: 12% The Oscar (1966)

Birthday: Apr 16, 1927

Birthplace: Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA

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 1954. 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 1962, 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 helped etch Adams in the American psyche as a whip-smart, brash, talented screen presence; she was particularly famous for her impressions of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Marilyn Monroe. After Kovacs' untimely death, Adams was beset with legal problems over her stepchildren and paying off Kovacs's tax debt, but her story is one of perseverance. In the 1960s she launched Edie Adams Cosmetics and Edie Adams Cut 'n' Curl beauty salons and, through tireless work, she bounced back. Her screen career from the 1970s onward consisted of TV appearances and cameos. From "McMillan & Wife" to "Designing Women," Adams was always a delightful scene-stealer until retiring from acting in the early '90s.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 90% The Best Man
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93% 94% The Apartment
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92% 77% Lover Come Back
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83% 92% Broadway: The Golden Age
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82% 86% Love With the Proper Stranger
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69% 83% It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
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57% 61% The Honey Pot
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47% 82% Up in Smoke
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17% 56% Under the Yum Yum Tree
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12% 29% The Oscar
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Broadway: The Golden Age 83% 92% 2004 Self Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter 1984 Mae West Actor Shooting Stars 1983 Hazel Actor Boxoffice 1982 Carolyn Actor The Seekers 1979 Flora Cato Actor Racquet 1979 Leslie Sargent Actor Fast Friends 1979 Connie Burton Actor Mrs. Columbo: Word Games 1979 Joanne Huston Actor Superdome 1978 Joyce Actor Up in Smoke 47% 82% 1978 Mrs. Tempest Stillman Actor The Return of Joe Forrester 1975 Massage Parlor Owner Actor Evil Roy Slade 77% 1972 Flossie Actor Kovacs! 1971 Actor The Honey Pot 57% 61% 1967 Merle McGill Actor The Oscar 12% 29% 1966 Trina Yale Actor Made in Paris 42% 1966 Irene Chase Actor The Best Man 100% 90% 1964 Mabel Cantwell Actor Love With the Proper Stranger 82% 86% 1963 Barbie Actor Call Me Bwana 50% 1963 Frederica Actor Under the Yum Yum Tree 17% 56% 1963 Dr. Irene Wilson Actor It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 69% 83% 1963 Monica Crump Actor Lover Come Back 92% 77% 1961 Rebel Davis Actor The Apartment 93% 94% 1960 Miss Olsen Actor Cinderella 87% 1957 Fairy Godmother Actor
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