Movies by Edie Adams
As part of the cast:
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Broadway: The Golden Age (2004)
Cast: Bea Arthur, Alec Baldwin, Marlon Brando …
Directed by: Rick McKay
When director Rick McKay travels the world researching the golden age of stage, he realizes that while masterpieces in film and literature can live on through restoration and reprints, the…
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A Cry for Love (1980)
Cast: Susan Blakely, Powers Boothe, Charles Siebert …
Directed by: Paul Wendkos
Single mom Polly turns to drugs to help her cope with the challenges of raising two kids. When she meets another divorced addict, Tony, the two band together for support. But are they…
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The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1980)
Cast: Martine Beswick, Chris Lemmon, Adam West …
Directed by: Alan Roberts
Self-billed "happy hooker" Xaviera Hollander (Martine Beswick) conquers Tinseltown in this campy 1980 comedy based on her memoirs detailing her adventures in the sex trade. Xaviera wants to…
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Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke (1978)
Cast: Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Strother Martin …
Directed by: Lou Adler
Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong make their debut in this tale of two stoners in search of the perfect stash of hash who end up cruising around in a van made of potent pot with bumbling narcotics…
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The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington / The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood (1977)
Cast: Joey Heatherton, George Hamilton, Ray Walston …
Directed by: William A. Levey, Alan Roberts
Xaviera Hollander, the country's most famous madam, returns in two sequels to the original hit film. First, when a sex scandal rocks Washington, Xaviera (Joey Heatherton), now a…
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Evil Roy Slade (1972)
Cast: John Astin, Pamela Austin, Dick Shawn …
Directed by: Jerry Paris
Evil Roy Slade (John Astin), the slimiest scoundrel ever to haunt the West, makes sure the good guys always finish last in this satirical romp. But when he falls for a schoolmarm (Pamela…
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The Honey Pot (1967)
Cast: Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Cliff Robertson …
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
As an elaborate practical joke, eccentric millionaire Cecil Fox (Rex Harrison) pretends to be gravely ill and beckons his three former mistresses to his deathbed, but his delightfully devious…
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The Best Man (1964)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams …
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Though this political satire was made decades ago, the election-year backbiting and smear campaigns at the film's core will be as familiar to today's audiences as they were to those…
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar …
Directed by: Stanley Kramer
Before literally kicking the bucket when his car careens off an embankment, "Smiler" Grogan tells onlookers he's stashed $350,000 beneath the big "W" in Santa Rosita -- and thus begins a…
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Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Cast: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams …
Directed by: Robert Mulligan
A Catholic salesgirl discovers she's pregnant after a one-night stand with a womanizing musician. As the two strangers spend the day trying to find a doctor to perform an abortion, they…
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Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Dean Jones …
Directed by: David Swift
Jack Lemmon imbues his role as a lecherous apartment manager with enough slyly comic charm to make viewers overlook the movie's improbable premise -- namely, that an unmarried couple…
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Lover Come Back (1961)
Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall …
Directed by: Delbert Mann
Jerry (Rock Hudson) is an advertising executive who's gleaned success through his smarmy actions. His rival Carol (Doris Day) can't stand Jerry's immoral tactics and tells the…
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The Apartment (1960)
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray …
Directed by: Billy Wilder
With furthering his career in mind, an insurance clerk lends his apartment to his adulterous higher-ups for their amorous affairs. But his fast track to an executive suite gets derailed when…
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Cinderella (1957)
Cast: Julie Andrews, Howard Lindsay, Dorothy Stickney …
Directed by: Ralph Nelson
Julie Andrews stars as Cinderella in Rodgers and Hammerstein's version of the famous fairy tale, which originally aired on television in 1957 to a record audience. Directed by Ralph…