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- Although she studied and sang serious music at Juilliard, summer jobs (including performing in a production of The Pirates of Penzance) and her New York social life introduced her to lighter, more popular performance styles, as well as to New York's café society and the Brill Building crowd.
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Edie was an acknowledged all-around entertainer. She moved with confidence from light comedy, to slapstick, to drama 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 Opera Company.
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Oct 18, 2008 · Edie Adams, an actress, comedian and singer whose career spanned nightclubs, stage, film, television and a series of dynamic commercials for Muriel cigars, died October 15 in the West Hills area of Los Angeles. She was 81. She succombed to complications from pneumonia and cancer.
Oct 17, 2008 · Edie Adams, the Tony award-winning actress and singer who was perhaps best known to a generation of television viewers as the seductive commercial spokeswoman for Muriel Cigars, has died. She...
Oct 16, 2008 · A graduate of Juilliard School of Music, Adams hoped to become an opera singer but instead went on to gain fame for her sketches with Kovacs and her pivotal roles in two top Broadway musicals.
Edie Adams (born Edith Elizabeth Enke; [2] April 16, 1927 – October 15, 2008) [3] was an American comedian, actress, singer and businesswoman. She earned a Tony Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award.
Adams had a successful career in both television and film, appearing in movies such as “The Apartment” (1960) and “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” (1963). She was also a prominent figure on Broadway, earning a Tony Award for her performance in “Li’l Abner” in 1957.
Oct 16, 2008 · A graduate of Juilliard School of Music, Adams hoped to become an opera singer but instead went on to gain fame for her sketches with Kovacs and her pivotal roles in two top Broadway musicals....
