EDIE ADAMS - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 270933

EDIE ADAMS
Black and white publicity still of Edie Adams in her role in Love With the Proper Stranger.
Photograph signed: "Edie Adams". B/w, 8x10. Publicity still for the 1963 drama, Love With the Proper Stranger, in which Adams provided comic relief as Barbie (Barbara of Seville). ©1963, Paramount Pictures Corporation. Captioned at lower margin. The film also starred Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen and Herschel Bernardi and introduced future TV star Tom Bosley. In the year she made this film, Adams was also seen on the big screen in It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Call Me Bwana and Under the Yum-Yum Tree. Singer and comedian Edie Adams, born Elizabeth Edith Enke in 1927, who appeared on TV's popular Ernie Kovacs Show in the early 1950s, married Kovacs in 1954 (the couple was married until his death in 1962). Known to television audiences for her commercials for Muriel Cigars, she also appeared in several feature films, including The Apartment (1960) and The Best Man (1964). Adams, who received a Tony Award as Daisy Mae in Li'l Abner (1955), portrayed Mae West in a TV biography of her late husband, Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (1984). Ink lightly smudged at the "Ad" of Adams. Lightly creased at blank margins and corners, worn at lower right corner. Minor surface creases, most not evident had on. Nicked at lower blank edge, black mark at upper left edge. Overall, fine condition.