Edie Adams
Also Known As: Edith Adams, Edith Elizabeth Enke
Biography: Edie Adams (April 16, 1927 – October 15, 2008) was an American singer, Broadway, television and film actress and comedienne. Adams, a Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde." She was well-known for her impersonations of female stars on stage and television, most particularly, Marilyn Monroe. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edie Adams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kingston, Pennsylvania, USA
Adult: No
Birthday: April 16, 1927
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 15, 2008
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The Apartment
Overview: Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-21
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Overview: A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-07
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Up in Smoke
Overview: An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye."
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-05-16
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Lover Come Back
Overview: Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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Dreams with Sharp Teeth
Overview: The documentary story of Harlan Ellison
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-06-04
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The Best Man
Overview: The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-05
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The Honey Pot
Overview: A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-21
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Cinderella
Overview: Julie Andrews was nominated for an Emmy for portraying the titular scullery maid who finds true love with a prince in this legendary adaptation of one of the most famous fairy tales of all time. A musical, made-for-television, with music by Richard Rodgers and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, it is the only of the legendary composing team's musicals created specifically for that medium. It was originally broadcast live on CBS on March 31, 1957, and was a phenomenal success, viewed by more than 107 million people. Though it originally aired in full color, only a black & white kinescope of the production has survived.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-31
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Under the Yum-Yum Tree
Overview: A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-23
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Love with the Proper Stranger
Overview: Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Kovacs on Music
Overview: An NBC special starring Ernie Kovacs in a variety of music-themed sketches, performances, and gags.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-22
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The Oscar
Overview: An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-04
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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There
Overview: Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kept in print - but historic Broadway performances of the past are the most endangered. They leave only memories that, while more vivid, are more difficult to preserve. In their own words — and not a moment too soon — Broadway: The Golden Age tells the stories of our theatrical legends, how they came to New York, and how they created this legendary century in American theatre. This is the largest cast of legends ever in one film.
Genres: Music Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-04-03
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Call Me Bwana
Overview: A returning moon capsule goes off course and lands in Africa where a little-known tribe finds it. Washington sends Matthew Merriwether to recover it—thinking he's an expert on the region—when in fact he's no such thing. However, a foreign power sends Secret Agent Luba to try and acquire the capsule for itself and, when Matthew and Luba reach their destination, they find that the tribe believes the capsule to be sacred and won't give it up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-14
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Doris Day: It's Magic
Overview: When the cameras rolled, Doris Day wore a happy face, never hinting at the pain she endured in her personal life. This documentary brings viewers close to the real Doris Day through the eyes of her friends and family members and with the help of film footage, newsreels and photographs. What surfaces is a complex picture of an equally complicated woman who faced problems far more formidable than her cinematic image revealed.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-10-18
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Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
Overview: This is a splendid little sleeper of a movie. Ernie Kovacs was one of the giants of early television. I think he would be pleased with the way Jeff Goldbloom captures his wonky personality. Melody Anderson also distills that of Edie Adams. There is a very basic heart tugging story about the search for Kovacs' two abducted daughters. But at the same time the film is funny --- Cloris Leachman is a hoot as Kovacs impossible mom --- and has many of the offbeat and innovative qualities of the old Kovacs show itself.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-14
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Made in Paris
Overview: A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 1966 romantic comedy stars Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna, Chad Everett, Edie Adams, John McGiver, Reta Shaw and Count Basie.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-09
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The Spiral Staircase
Overview: Based on the screenplay by Mel Dinelli, this story revolves around Helen Warren, a beautiful mute girl, who becomes the target of a mysterious killer who preys on young handicapped women.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-04
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Showdown at Ulcer Gulch
Overview: Short promotional film for a Saturday Evening Post sales convention.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Superdome
Overview: It's the biggest event of the year — the Super Bowl! But the star players for the Cougars, gathered in New Orleans for the big game, are preoccupied with some serious off-the-field issues. Dave Walecki's marriage to his wife Nancy is falling apart, while Jim McCauley is involved in a shady deal with a management firm that could destroy his career. But that's nothing compared to the real drama. There's an assassin killing off many of the team's personnel (as well as their chances of winning)!
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-09
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The Haunting of Harrington House
Overview: A young woman who lives in a supposedly haunted house finds that her camera is picking up images of ghosts, and soon strange spirits begin to appear to her.
Genres: Family Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-08
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Racquet
Overview: Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the rich and famous while set on owning his own tennis court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-30
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Make Me an Offer
Overview: Joyce Windsor is a woman who gets involved in the real estate game after the husband she helped put through law school dumps her. But she has to deal with Pete Strickland, the "King" of Beverly Hills real estate, who wants more than she cares to give for teaching her the ins and outs of the business.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-11
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Cop on the Beat
Overview: An aging street cop goes after a gang of toughs involved in several robbery-rapes on his beat in this pilot (a spin-off from "Police Story") for the 1975-76 series. The veteran cop concept also was the basis for "The Blue Knight" series at the same time — and that, too, was based on a Joseph Wambaugh creation. Also known as "The Return of Joe Forrester."
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-06
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Evil Roy Slade
Overview: Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West"—so he's thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). There's also Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Rooney), a railroad tycoon, who, along with his dimwitted nephew Clifford (Henry Gibson), is trying to get revenge on Evil Roy Slade for robbing him.
Genres: TV Movie Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-18
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Shooting Stars
Overview: Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.
Genres: Comedy Action TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-07-28
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Hoodwinked
Overview: Burnt-out private dick Jacob Aloysius Spanner teams up with his brother to help an old adversary track down his one remaining loved one, his kidnapped granddaughter. But who's the hood and who's being hoodwinked?
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-15
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Portrait of an Escort
Overview: Jordan West is a divorcée who moonlights at a professional dating service to make ends meet. But her secret job causes gossip among her neighbors and trouble at the real estate office where she works in the daytime, while her teenage daughter is the only one who remains oblivious to her mother's night job. When Jordan tries to quit her escort profession, she finds herself harassed by her boss/madam, Mrs. Kennedy, and then stalked by an unknown former client.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-08
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Tarzana
Overview: A private detective takes on a strange case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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A Cry for Love
Overview: Divorcee Susan Blakely, with no alimony and two kids to support, begins turning to amphetamines. While at her lowest ebb, she meets an alcoholic and three-time loser in marriage -- who, incredibly, turns out to be the ideal man!
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-20
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The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood
Overview: Xaviera Hollander has to navigate some sleazy studio politics to see the production of the film version of her memoirs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-04
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Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Overview: A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Seekers
Overview: This follow-up to "The Bastard" and "The Rebels" continues the account of Philip Kent's life and career from his emigration to colonial Massachusetts through the American Revolutionary War and concludes the family saga with the story of his two sons and their children as they arrive in the unexplored Northwest Territory. (Episodes 5 and 6 of the Kent Chronicles miniseries.)
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-03
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Inside 'The Apartment'
Overview: A 2007 documentary on the making of "The Apartment."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-01-06
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Fast Friends
Overview: A young divorcee struggles to provide for her young son and make a new life for herself in the backstage jungle of a TV talk show, becoming fast friends with its head writer whose job it is to see that its host, a woman-chasing egomaniac, stays at the top of the ratings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-19
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Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
Overview: For more than 30 years, Lucille Ball was one of the most recognized and loved entertainers in the world. Known to all simply as Lucy, she portrayed a scatterbrained housewife with the ability to turn simple chores into humorous disasters.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-03
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