What is Edie Adams?
[[Image:Edie_Adams_1958.JPG|thumb|upright|Edie Adams 1958]] '''Edith Elizabeth Enke''', also known as '''Edie Adams''' (April 16, 1927 – October 15, 2008<ref name=EBYB76>''Encyclopaedia Britannica Almanac 2010'' (), p. 76 Obituaries</ref>), was an [[Americans|American]] [[business]] [[woman]], [[singer]], [[actress]] and [[comedienne]]. She won several [[Tony Awards|Tony]] and [[Emmy Award]]s for her acting. She played Eileen Sherwood in the [[Broadway]] play ''Wonderful Town''.<ref>William A. Everett; Paul R. Laird, ''The A to Z of the Broadway Musical'' (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Group, 2009), p. 2</ref> She also played Miss Olsen in the movie ''[[The Apartment]]''. Adams was born in [[Kingston, Pennsylvania]].<ref name=NYTObit>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/movies/16adams.html?_r=0 |title=Edie Adams, Actress and Singer (and Flirt With a Cigar), Dies at 81 |author=Bruce Weber |date=16 October 2008 |website= |publisher=New York Times |accessdate=16 November 2014}}</ref> She was married to [[Ernie Kovacs]] from 1954 until his death in 1962. She died from [[pneumonia]] and [[cancer]] at age 81 in [[Los Angeles]].<ref name=NYTObit/> == References == {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Adams, Edie}} [[Category:American television actors]] [[Category:American stage actors]] [[Category:American movie actors]] [[Category:Comedians from Pennsylvania]] [[Category:Actors from Pennsylvania]] [[Category:1927 births]] [[Category:2008 deaths]] [[Category:Emmy Award winning actors]] [[Category:Tony Award winning actors]] {{us-actor-stub}}