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Published: Thu, October 16, 2008 - 10:56 am
Last Updated: Thu, October 16, 2008 - 11:04 am
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actress and singer Edie Adams, the blondebeauty who won a Tony Award for bringing Daisy Mae to life on
Broadway and played television foil to husband Ernie Kovacs, has
died. She was 81.
Publicist Henri Bollinger says Adams died in Los Angeles
Wednesday from cancer and pneumonia.
Adams was a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and hoped
to become an opera singer. Instead, she gained fame for her
sketches with Kovacs and her pivotal roles in Broadway musicals.
She also had a long stage and film career.
Adams also was known as the sexy spokeswoman for Muriel cigars
in the 1950s and 1960s. In TV ads, she famously purred: "Why don't
you pick one up and smoke it sometime?"
Adams is survived by a son, Joshua Mills.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
See more of Edie Adams career on IMDb.
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