Edie Adams Net Worth is
$400,000

Mini Biography

The scintillating, sultry-eyed blonde (formerly a redhead) star of screen, TV and award-winning stage continued to become most widely known, however, on her behalf sensual delivery pitching cigars in taunting 60s ads and commercials with her Mae Westian come-on line, “The trend is to pick one up and smoke it sometime?” This, obviously, was at the same time when smoking cigarettes was regarded as quite sexy and stylish, and Edie Adams proceeded to go far beyond the decision of duty to make these ads famous. Edie had her hands dipped in every swimming pools of entertainment — she was a performing siren, an award-winning Broadway music entertainer, a deft impressionist and comedienne, a significant dramatic celebrity, a business saleswoman and a viable Television superstar. Off-stage, she demonstrated amazing poise and resourcefulness, when her popular first spouse, landmark Television comic Ernie Kovacs, was tragically wiped out within a January 1962 motor vehicle accident in LA and she discovered her family budget in dire straits. She was created Edith Elizabeth Enke on Apr 16, 1927, in the relatively small town of Kingston, Pa, but moved while fairly young to Grove Town. Her family members relocated again, this time around to Tenafly, NJ, where she was raised. Pursuing her graduation from senior high school, Edie aspired to be an opera vocalist and studied tone of voice and piano at New York’s Juilliard College of Music. She after that went on to consider acting classes on the Columbia College of Drama. Her theatrical debut occurred using a 1947 creation of “Blithe Spirit” and, a season afterwards, she appeared in the stage present “Goodnight Females”. Gradually accumulating her singing status via the nightclub circuit, her big break arrived when Arthur Godfrey booked her on his “Talent Scouts” display. She didn’t turn out the champion, but a Television director who captured view of her overall performance visioned in her a seductive “right guy” who could mesh well with a particular zany comedian. In 1951, Edie (after that referred to as Edith Adams) was registered as a presented vocalist on Ernie Kovacs’s humor show that started in Philadelphia. The display, live and unrehearsed, became a forward thinking, groundbreaking work in the fairly new moderate. Outrageous as well as incomprehensible sometimes, his humor was deemed method before its period, and, because of this, had problems achieving mainstream viewers who didn’t “obtain it”, as well as the applications were short-lived. Several Kovacs’ systems that included Edie had been Ernie in Kovacsland (1951), “Kovacs in the Korner” (1952), and, obviously, The Ernie Kovacs Present (1952). She and Kovacs eloped to Mexico Town in 1954 and their union created a little girl, Mia Kovacs. The duo had been a popular few in the Hollywood public circuit (shifting there from NY in the past due 50s) as well as the contacts she created out there have been quite important in furthering her profession. Early 50s TV opened up many doors for Edie and she waltzed through them. Her NY stage debut in the favorite musical “Fantastic City” in 1952 experienced her walking aside with the Theater Globe Award for “Greatest Newcomer”. A couple of years later on, she slithered aside with a assisting Tony Award on her behalf bodacious undertake the “Daisy Mae” personality in the musical “Li’l Abner” (1956). Pursuing that were even more musical and dramatic projects over the stage including “The Merry Widow” (1957), a present she would go back to more often than once, “Special Parrot of Youngsters” (1960) and “Totally free being a Parrot” (1960). On film, Edie demonstrated the general public that she wasn’t only a fairly encounter with her sharply unsympathetic assisting efficiency in Billy Wilder’s The House (1960) and a funny, sexier one in the next of Rock and roll Hudson and Doris Day’s three battle-of-the-sex romps, Enthusiast KEEP COMING BACK (1961). Remarkably, Edie and Ernie under no circumstances appeared together within a film. Edie continued to be primarily a Television fixture and, beyond her Emmy-nominated coupling with Kovacs, winningly performed the Fairy Godmother in Julie Andrews’ well-known TV edition of Cinderella (1957), made an appearance regularly with Jack port Paar and Dinah Shoreline in their particular variety displays, acted on several prime-time displays, and graced several celebrity video game and talk display panels. Among Edie’s last pairings with Kovacs is at 1960 if they appeared while guests on the last bout of The Lucy-Desi Humor Hour (1957). The set made an appearance as themselves with among the shows having Edie crooning the beautiful ballad “That’s All”. Kovacs’ unexpected 1962 loss of life was an awful reversal of fortunes for Edie. An inveterate gambler, he still left her owing very much money towards the IRS. Rather than filing bankruptcy, nevertheless, she proved helpful her way to avoid it of debt. Along the way, her profession received another wind. Probably it didn’t harm that the general public adored Edie which she was a really sympathetic shape in the wake of her personal tragedy. She returned towards the nightclub circuit from whence she came, recorded albums, and in addition toured the united states in a variety of dramatic and musical comedy vehicles including “Rainfall” (as Sadie Thompson), “Bell’s Are Calling”, “Annie GET A Weapon” (as Annie Oakley), “I REALLY DO! I REALLY DO!”, “Anything Goes” and “Bus End”. She also received exceptional notices in some of her movies, whether drama (Like with the correct Stranger (1963), THE VERY BEST Guy (1964)) or frivolous humor (Contact Me Bwana (1963), It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Globe (1963), Beneath the Yum Yum Tree (1963), The Honey Container (1967)). Furthermore, she was handed her very own musical variety present Here’s Edie (1963) (aka “The Edie Adams Present”) and received several Emmy nominations on her behalf initiatives. She also had taken benefit of her well-known impressions of Zsa Zsa Gabor among others, appearing on several TV comedy platforms. A lot more than anything, nevertheless, it had been her come-hither temptress pitching Muriel cigars that had Television audiences’s tongues wagging. It had been a smashingly effective and highly rewarding coup for Edie appropriately. Her late hubby, a notorious cigar cigarette smoker, at onetime sold Dutch Get better at cigars on Television. The idea after that for Edie to pitch a contending thinner cigar on Television was only organic. She had very much regarding the direction from the advertisements, which ran through the entire 1960s, offering them with an ideal blend of course, glamour and sensuality. While developing noticeably heavier in old age, she by no means lost her brand laughter and sex appeal. Edie could be seen every once in awhile around the stage in such displays as “THE VERY BEST Small Whorehouse in Tx”, the feminine edition of “The Unusual Few”, “Hello, Dolly!” and “Nunsense”. She continued to be committed to the finish to repairing/conserving her past due husband’s videotapes and kinescopes of his ground-breaking 50s Television function. She also recalled her offbeat existence with Kovacs in the publication “Sing a fairly Song”, that was released in 1990. Edie remarried in 1964 to professional photographer Marty Mills, with whom she had a boy, Josh Mills. That union finished in divorce in 1971. The next year, Edie wedded jazz trumpeter Pete Candoli. She and Candoli, who passed away in January of 2008, divorced in 1989. In another eerie, tragic situation, girl Mia Kovacs was wiped out within a 1982 LA car crash at age group 22 — twenty years after her father’s equivalent demise. Experiencing cancer and slimming down lately, the beloved Edie passed away of problems from pneumonia at age group 81 in LA.

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Quick Facts

Full Name	Edie Adams
Died	October 15, 2008, Los Angeles, California, United States
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
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 Roy Slade, The Seekers, Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter, The Oscar, Superdome, Jake Spanner, Private Eye, Racquet, A Cry for Love, Fast Friends, Shooting Stars, Mrs. Columbo: Word Games, Kovacs!, Boxoffice, The Return of Joe Forrester
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)