Edie Adams
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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Edie Adams
Filmography
Movies
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83% |
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Broadway: The Golden Age | Self | - | 2004 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter | Mae West (Character) | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Shooting Stars | Hazel (Character) | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Boxoffice | Carolyn (Character) | - | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Seekers | Flora Cato (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Racquet | Leslie Sargent (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fast Friends | Connie Burton (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mrs. Columbo: Word Games | Joanne Huston (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Superdome | Joyce (Character) | - | 1978 |
47% |
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Up in Smoke | Mrs. Tempest Stillman (Character) | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Return of Joe Forrester | Massage Parlor Owner (Character) | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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Evil Roy Slade | Flossie (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Kovacs! | Unknown (Character) | - | 1971 |
57% |
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The Honey Pot | Merle McGill (Character) | - | 1967 |
12% |
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The Oscar | Trina Yale (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet |
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Made in Paris | Irene Chase (Character) | - | 1966 |
100% |
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The Best Man | Mabel Cantwell (Character) | - | 1964 |
82% |
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Love With the Proper Stranger | Barbie (Character) | - | 1963 |
No Score Yet |
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Call Me Bwana | Frederica (Character) | - | 1963 |
17% |
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Under the Yum Yum Tree | Dr. Irene Wilson (Character) | - | 1963 |
69% |
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Monica Crump (Character) | - | 1963 |
92% |
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Lover Come Back | Rebel Davis (Character) | - | 1961 |
93% |
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The Apartment | Miss Olsen (Character) | - | 1960 |
No Score Yet |
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Cinderella | Fairy Godmother (Character) | - | 1957 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Designing Women | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Trapper John, M.D. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | 89% | Murder, She Wrote | Kaye Sheppard (Guest Star) | 1985 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Fantasy Island | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1981 |
80% | 60% | Bosom Buddies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Police Woman | Lorenza (Guest Star) | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Practice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Blue Knight | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Harry O | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | McMillan and Wife | Louise Montgomery (Guest Star) | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1956-1957 1963-1964 1970 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Carol Burnett Show | Guest | 1968-1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucy Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I've Got a Secret | Guest | 1956 1961 1964-1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Danny Kaye Show | Guest | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | We Love Lucy | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Suspense | Unknown (Character) | 1954 |