Edie Adams

Edie Adams was an American businesswoman, singer, Broadway, television and film actress, and comedian. Adams, an Emmy and Tony Award winner, both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde.

Adams was born as Edith Elizabeth Enke in Kingston, Pennsylvania, the only daughter of Sheldon Alonzo Enke and his wife, Ada Dorothy . She had an elder brother, Sheldon Adams Enke . The family moved to nearby areas such as Shavertown, Grove City and Trucksville and spent a year in New York City before settling in Tenafly, New Jersey, where she finished high school. Ada Enke taught her daughter singing and piano mother and daughter were members of the Grove City Presbyterian church choir. Adams grandmother, a seamstress, taught her how to sew. She made her own clothing beginning in the sixth grade and Adams would later have her own designer line of clothing, called Bonham, Inc.

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