Posted on 10/16/2008 12:56:51 PM PDT by martin_fierro
Tony-winning actress, TV star Edie Adams dies
By BOB THOMAS
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
LOS ANGELES -- Actress and singer Edie Adams, the blonde beauty who won a Tony Award for bringing Daisy Mae to life on Broadway and who played the television foil to her husband, comedian Ernie Kovacs, has died. She was 81.
Adams died Wednesday in a Los Angeles hospital from pneumonia and cancer, publicist Henri Bollinger said.
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.
For nearly two decades, she also was the sexy spokeswoman for Muriel cigars, singing and breathily cooing in TV commercials: "Why don't you pick one up and smoke it sometime?"
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Rest in Peace.
WE all lost one of the best.
Type "Nairobi Trio Video" on Yahoo search for some old-fashioned yuks.
RIP, Edie.
Leni
Rest in peace, Edie.
Leni
“Why don’t you come up and see me sometime”.....my gosh I remember that line from 50 years ago!
Yep, it’s been a long time since that fateful night in LA, January, 1962. I remember my Dad telling me news about Ernie. Recently I was reading alot about him on the internet, what a talented guy.
She was a true Lady in every sense of the word and a talented performer.
I have a feeling that Ernie was there waiting for her, with the song “Mack The Knife”, being sung in the original German, playing in the background...
Just last week I saw her with Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall and Donna Douglas in “Lover Come Back”, she played the VIP girl. My favorite of all the Doris Day-Rock Hudson movies. Though I practically know it by heart I saw that it was still funny and well done. Them days is gone.
There will be laughter in heaven tonight when Ernie and Eddie are united again to perform before the thrown of G-d. May they hear the thunderous applause of the heavenly host. Rest in peace knowing you gave the sad world the gift of laughter.
Some interesting details about her can be found here.
Always enjoyed her and Ernie. Rest in Peace.
"Why don't you light up...
A Muriel Coronela ?
New exclusive small cigar,
--- taste by far... (forgot the words to the jingle)
She was so incredibly sexy.
In the Seventies, she expanded into opera. I saw her in Seattle in “Cosi fan tutte” and “La perichole”.
She worked hard to clear Kovac’s trouble with the IRS and to save as much of the tapes and kinescopes that she could.
Thanks for the ping...very sorry to hear this. I think she was the first one to arouse my male hormones.
Yep, she was hot. RIP, Edie.
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