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Adams was to play Daisy Mae in the film version of Li'l Abner but was unable due to the late arrival of her daughter, Mia Susan Kovacs. After Kovacs's death, his network, ABC, gave Adams a chance with her own show, Here's Edie, which received five Emmy nominations but lasted one season, in 1963.
Oct 16, 2008 · Though not as spectacularly curvy as Marilyn Monroe, Ms. Adams bore some resemblance to her and was known to do a wicked Monroe impersonation. So the part of the voluptuous and loyal Daisy Mae...
Oct 16, 2008 · LOS ANGELES (AP) - 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...
Dec 5, 1999 · Still later, before Miss Piggy stole her cleavage, long eyelashes and penchant for self-celebration, Disney used her as the model for the top-heavy Jenny Wren, and Edie Adams pitched cigars by...
Oct 15, 2008 · (A 1984 documentary, Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter, in which Adams plays Mae West, chronicles Adams’s victory.) His mother, too, wanted money, and took Edie to court, accusing her of mismanagement of Kovacs’s estate and petitioning for the custody of all three granddaughters.
Central to the broadly drawn tale were the handsome, strong and dim Abner, and Daisy Mae, the hourglass blonde in the skimpy costume of black micro-shorts and yellow polka-dot blouse who can't ...
She also became a regular on Ernie Kovac's CBS-TV show until she was signed to star in her second Broadway show as Daisy Mae in the musical version of Al Capp's "Li'l Abner." She received the coveted Tony Award for her performance.
