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From All Movie Guide: Born Elizabeth Edith Enke, on April 16, 1927, in Kingston, PA, Edie Adams was a graduate of both the Juilliard School of Music and the Columbia School of Drama. She began her career in television, utilizing her singing and comedic talent as a regular on the popular Ernie Kovacs Show in the early '50s. Adams and Kovacs were married in 1955 and remained together until his death in 1962. Before appearing in films, she starred on Broadway in Wonderful Town (1953) and Li'l Abner (1956). Her first major film role was playing Miss Olsen in Billy Wilder's 1960 comedy The Apartment. The film work that followed cast Adams in mostly secondary roles that highlighted her talent for comedy and displayed her spirited presence.
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Edie Adams (born Elizabeth Edith Enke) is an American singer and light comedienne who was born on April 16, 1927, in Kingston, Pennsylvania. She was a graduate of both the Juilliard School of Music and the Columbia School of Drama. She was "Miss U.S. Television" in 1950. In those early television days, she was known as Edith Adams. She began her career in television working with comedian Ernie Kovacs. They married on September 12, 1954, and remained together until his sudden death in a car accident on January 13, 1962.
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Edie Adams married actor Marty Mills in 1964. He was the father of her son, Josh Mills, her surviving child. However, the marriage ended in divorce. Her most recent marriage was to noted trumpet player Pete Candoli, which lasted from 1972 until their divorce in 1989. They toured and performed together, with Candoli serving as her music director.
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Edie Adams -- Tony-winner, classically trained as a singer, and a gifted comedienne -- is probably best known for being Ernie Kovacs's widow. Adams was crowned Miss U.S. Television in 1950, winning a talent competition on the DuMont Television Network. In the early 1950s, she appeared on Ernie in Kovacsland and The Ernie Kovacs Show, while he was married to a troubled woman who had kidnapped their two children. Kovacs and Adams and married after his divorce, in 1954.
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Edie Adams is primarily known for her prolific work on television, but she ... made a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s. Adams is a gifted comedienne who demonstrated her skills in The Apartment (1960; with Jack Lemmon), Lover Come Back (1961; with Rock Hudson and Doris Day), and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963). But TV viewers will always associate Adams with her husband Ernie Kovacs; the couple married in 1954 and worked together on The Ernie Kovacs Show. Kovacs died in an auto accident in early 1962. Adams remarried in 1964 and cooled her acting career somewhat in the late 1960s. Adams is now retired.
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In many ways, Edie Adams is now best remembered for saving Kovacs' legacy. After the government was paid off, she started using the big paydays to buy up all tapes and films of the old Kovacs shows. Networks live in the eternal present, and some fools were recording over the old Kovacs tapes. Edie's music was old music. She was classically trained and she still shakes with horror at the memory of having to sing "Stony End" during one of her Vegas shows.
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