Biography
Edie Adams was an American actress and singer. Born Edith Elizabeth Enke on 16 April 1927 in Kingston, Pennsylvania, she studied at the Juilliard School of Music and began her career in television and on Broadway.
She won a Tony Award for her role as Daisy Mae in the 1956 musical Li'l Abner. Adams appeared in films including The Apartment (1960) as Miss Olsen, Lover Come Back (1961), It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963) as Monica Crump, and Up in Smoke (1978) as Tempest Stoner. She was also known for television work such as The Carol Burnett Show and Murder, She Wrote.
Adams died on 15 October 2008 in Los Angeles.
