Edie Adams Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
Edie Adams (April 16, 1927 in Kingston, Pennsylvania – October 15, 2008 in Los Angeles) was an American businesswoman, singer, Broadway, television and film actress, and comedienne. Adams, an Emmy and Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde".She was well known for her impersonations of sexy stars on stage and television, especially Marilyn Monroe. She was the wife and frequent television partner of Ernie Kovacs until his death in a 1962 car accident.
Full Name
Edie Adams
Net Worth
$5 Million
Date Of Birth
April 16, 1927
Died
October 15, 2008, Los Angeles, California, United States
Death Cause
Cancer and pneumonia.
Place Of Birth
Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA
Height
1.68 m
Profession
Actor, Singer, Comedian, Businessperson
Education
Juilliard School, Actors Studio, Columbia University
Nationality
American
Spouse
Pete Candoli, Martin Mills, Ernie Kovacs
Children
Mia Susan Kovacs, Joshua Mills
Parents
Sheldon Alonzo Enke, Ada Dorothy Adams
Siblings
Sheldon Adams Enke
Nicknames
Edie Adams, Adams, Edie
IMDB
Awards
Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
Nominations
Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance - Variety Or Music Program, Primetime Emmy Award for Best Continuing Performance - Comedienne In A Series
Movies
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Apartment, Up in Smoke, Lover Come Back, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Love with the Proper Stranger, The Honey Pot, Call Me Bwana, The Best Man, Cinderella, Made in Paris, Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There, The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood, Evil R...
TV Shows
Here's Edie, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Ernie In Kovacsland, The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, The Chevy Show (1958), Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad, Tales of the City (UK)
Star Sign
Aries
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Quote
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(on falling in love with Ernie Kovacs) Here was this guy with the big moustache, the big cigar, and the silly hat. I thought, "I don't know what this is, but it's for me.".
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(on her audition for the Arthur Godfrey Show, which she knew only three pop songs) I sang them all during the audition, and if they had asked to hear another, I never would have made it.
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Fact
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Ex-stepmother of Tara Candoli and Carolyn Candoli.
2
Following her death, she was interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los Angeles, California.
Won a custody battle over Kovacs' daughters, Betty and Kippie (from Kovacs' first marriage) after his death in 1962.
5
Patented a cigar holder-ring which she used in TV ads for Muriel Cigars in the 1960s. It was designed to show women that it was "ladylike" to smoke cigars.
6
At age 15, Edie was the baton-twirling champion of Tenafly, New Jersey.
7
Was the celebrity spokeswoman for Muriel Cigars for 19 years.
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Studied at both the Juilliard School of Music and the Columbia School of Drama.
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Has one son with husband Marty Mills: Josh Mills.
10
Won Broadway's 1957 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actress (Musical) for her performance as Daisy Mae in "Li'l Abner".
11
Married Ernie Kovacs in Mexico City. The ceremony was presided over by former New York City mayor William O'Dwyer, and performed in Spanish, which neither Kovacs or Adams understood; O'Dwyer had to prompt each to say "Si" at the "I do" portion of the vows.
12
When her husband, Ernie Kovacs, died in a car accident, he owed the IRS several hundred thousand dollars in back taxes (he felt that the tax system was unfair, and simply refused to pay it). Edie Adams took it upon herself to pay the back taxes, refusing help from her celebrity friends, and appeared in television commercials and other television work to raise the money. After several years, the back taxes were fully paid off.
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Lost both her husband and her daughter to separate car accidents.
14
Her daughter, Mia Kovacs, was killed in a car crash in 1982.
TV Movie performer: "Bilbao", "My Ship", "When My Sugar Walks Down the Street", "On the Good Ship Lollipop", "Italian Street Song", "Forty-Second Street", "'S Wonderful" - uncredited
The Frank Sinatra Show
1958
TV Series performer - 1 episode
Cinderella
1957
TV Special performer: "Impossible; It's Possible", "The Wedding"
Miscellaneous
Title
Year
Status
Character
Biography
1999
TV Series documentary photos - 1 episode
Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
1984
TV Movie technical advisor
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Biography
1999
TV Series documentary special thanks - 1 episode
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Here's Edie: The Edie Adams Television Collection
2013
TV Series
Herself - Host (2013)
Inside 'The Apartment'
2008
Video documentary short
Herself
A Lovely Night: The Making of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Television Classic
2005
Short
Herself
The Desilu Story
2003
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
2003
Documentary
Herself
Biography
1998-2001
TV Series documentary
Herself
American Masters
2000
TV Series documentary
Herself
NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II
1998
TV Movie documentary
Herself
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
