Edie Adams

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/14/04 at 10:41pm

I like her.
She's a good Fairy Godmother.

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/14/04 at 10:50pm

Kaye Ballard is killing me! LOL!!

[broadwayguy2]

Posted: 12/15/04 at 12:49am

Isn't it wonderful to see?

[Glebb]

Posted: 12/15/04 at 7:49am

Loving it this time around.
Edie and her twirling baton, the sparkler, the stepsisters (both of them). It's real good.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/15/04 at 8:12am

Don't forget she was married to Ernie Kovacs and appeared on his show, and she was Eileen on the OCR of the Roz Russell Wonderful Town. Her "Little Bit in Love" is still unsurpassed.

And those of us "of a certain age," remember her sexy, sultry TV commercials for Muriel 10-cent cigars (back when cigars could be advertised on television).

She sang these lyrics to the tune of "Hey, Big Spender":

The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of distinction
A real big spender,
Good looking, so refined.
I figured that you're the Muriel cigar-smoking kind.

[jump to last 8 bars]

So let me get right to the point
You're right in style
When you're in Muriel's company.
Hey! Big spender!
Hey! Big spender!
Spend a little dime with me.

[spoken] Join the Muriel mild crowd. Why don't you pick one up...and smoke it some time?

[Marquise]

Posted: 12/15/04 at 3:19pm

Wasn't she also "Daisy Mae" in the OBC of "Lil Abner"? She didn't do the movie though....that was Leslie Parrish.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 12/15/04 at 3:25pm

Ooohh, Marquise, when you're good, you're GOOD.

[Marquise]

Posted: 12/15/04 at 3:29pm

I try, I try. . .LOL

[MasterLcZ]

Posted: 12/15/04 at 3:35pm

So when is Seth gonna get her for CHATTERBOX?

[cturtle]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 12:01am

the first professionally performed musical i ever saw was I DO! I DO! starring EDIE and JACK CASSIDY. and i've been hooked ever since!!

[Mamie]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 12:11am

I always thought Edie and Ernie were one of the greatest and FUNNIEST couples in entertainment. I really thought she was just as funny as he was.

She took over those cigar commercials when Ernie died and left her a large debt to pay. Those commercials were enormously popular and I think she was always grateful to Dutch Masters for giving her the opportunity to do them.

[WOSQ]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 11:58am

Indeed Kovacs was $500,000 in debt (real money in the early 60s) when he died, and Edie said she took every job she could to pay it off as quickly as she could whether it was a commercial, tv, stock or nightclubs. She paid it off in about two years.

She is interviewed in Broadway, The Golden Age by the way. My guess she is nearing 80.

She also sang with regional opera companies in warhorse roles like Boheme in the late 60s.

The kid was a trouper.

[robbiej]

Posted: 12/16/04 at 12:02pm

And she is SPECTACULAR (as is the rest of the cast, particularly the Merm) in one of my favorite, all-time, overblown movies...IT'S A MAD MAD MAD MAD WORLD.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 12/17/04 at 1:26am

The Kovacks/Adams team appeared in THE VERY LAST I Love Lucy episode, "Lucy Meets The Moustache."