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Edie Adams (April 16, 1927 – October 15, 2008) was an American singer, Broadway, television and film actress and comedienne. Adams, a Tony Award winner, "both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde." She was well-known for her impersonations of female stars on stage and television, most particularly, Maril... more

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The Apartment

(1960)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.

Runtime:

125 min

Director:

Billy Wilder

Cast:

Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Ray Walston, Jack Kruschen

8.3

93%

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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

(1963)

Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

Runtime:

163 min

Director:

Stanley Kramer

Cast:

Spencer Tracy, Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Sid Caesar

7.5

70%

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Up in Smoke

(1978)

Comedy

An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadvent...

Runtime:

86 min

Director:

Lou Adler

Cast:

Cheech Marin, Tommy Chong, Strother Martin, Edie Adams, Harold Fong

6.9

47%

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Lover Come Back

(1961)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client out from under her cute little nose, revenge prompts her to infiltrate his secret "VIP" campaign in order to persuade the mystery product’s scientist to switch to her firm.

Runtime:

107 min

Director:

Delbert Mann

Cast:

Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Edie Adams, Jack Oakie

7.3

89%

N/A

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Love with the Proper Stranger

(1963)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

Angie Rossini, an innocent New York City sales clerk from a repressive Italian-American family, engages in a short-lived affair with a handsome jazz musician named Rocky Papasano. When Angie becomes pregnant, she tracks down Rocky hoping he'll pay for her abortion. Rocky agrees to help, but after seeing the unsanitary abortion facility...

Runtime:

102 min

Director:

Robert Mulligan

Cast:

Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Herschel Bernardi, Anne Hegira

7.5

89%

N/A

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The Best Man

(1964)

Comedy, Drama

The other party is in disarray. Five men vie for the party nomination for president. No one has a majority as the first ballot closes and the front-runners begin to decide how badly they want the job.

Runtime:

102 min

Director:

Franklin J. Schaffner

Cast:

Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams, Margaret Leighton, Shelley Berman

7.7

N/A

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Evil Roy Slade

(1972)

Comedy, TV Movie, Western

Orphaned and left in the desert as an infant, Evil Roy Slade (John Astin) grew up alone—save for his teddy bear—and mean. As an adult, he is notorious for being the "meanest villain in the West"—so he's thrown for quite a loop when he falls for sweet schoolteacher Betsy Potter (Pamela Austin). There's also Nelson L. Stool (Mickey Roone...

Runtime:

97 min

Cast:

Milton Berle, John Astin, Mickey Rooney, Pamela Austin, Henry Gibson

7.2

N/A

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The Honey Pot

(1967)

Comedy, Crime, Mystery

A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.

Runtime:

125 min

Director:

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast:

Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Capucine, Maggie Smith, Cliff Robertson

7.0

N/A

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Cinderella

(1957)

Drama, Romance, TV Movie

Julie Andrews was nominated for an Emmy for portraying the titular scullery maid who finds true love with a prince in this legendary adaptation of one of the most famous fairy tales of all time. A musical, made-for-television, with music by Richard Rodgers and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, it is the only of the legendary com...

Runtime:

77 min

Director:

Ralph Nelson

Cast:

Julie Andrews, Howard Lindsay, Howard Lindsay, Ilka Chase, Kaye Ballard

7.8

N/A

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Under the Yum-Yum Tree

(1963)

Comedy, Drama, Romance

A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tanant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.

Runtime:

110 min

Cast:

Jack Lemmon, Carol Lynley, Edie Adams, Imogene Coca, Paul Lynde

6.1

N/A

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Dreams with Sharp Teeth

(2008)

Documentary

The documentary story of Harlan Ellison

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Erik Nelson

Cast:

Harlan Ellison, Robin Williams, Neil Gaiman, Edie Adams, Haskell Barkin

7.8

100%

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The Oscar

(1966)

Drama

An amoral lowlife accidentally stumbles into an acting career that sets him on a trajectory to Hollywood stardom. But everyone on whom he steps on the way to the top remembers when he is nominated for an Oscar and he runs a dirty campaign in an attempt to win.

Runtime:

119 min

Director:

Russell Rouse

Cast:

Stephen Boyd, Elke Sommer, Milton Berle, Eleanor Parker, Joseph Cotten

5.1

18%

N/A

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Call Me Bwana

(1963)

Comedy

A returning moon capsule goes off course and lands in Africa where a little-known tribe finds it. Washington sends Matthew Merriwether to recover it—thinking he's an expert on the region—when in fact he's no such thing. However, a foreign power sends Secret Agent Luba to try and acquire the capsule for itself and, when Matthew and Luba...

Runtime:

102 min

Director:

Gordon Douglas

Cast:

Bob Hope, Anita Ekberg, Edie Adams, Lionel Jeffries, Percy Herbert

5.3

N/A

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Made in Paris

(1966)

Comedy, Romance

A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 1966 romantic comedy stars Ann-Margret, Louis Jourdan, Richard Crenna, Chad Everett, Edie Adams, John McGiver, Reta Shaw and Count Basie.

Runtime:

103 min

5.5

N/A

Shooting Stars

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Shooting Stars

(1983)

Action, Comedy, TV Movie

Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.

Runtime:

96 min

Director:

Richard Lang

Cast:

Parker Stevenson, Billy Dee Williams, Edie Adams, Herb Edelman, David Faustino

5.9

N/A

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Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There

(2003)

Documentary, History, Music

Broadway: The Golden Age is the most important, ambitious and comprehensive film ever made about America's most celebrated indigenous art form. Award-winning filmmaker Rick McKay filmed over 100 of the greatest stars ever to work on Broadway or in Hollywood. He soon learned that great films can be restored, fine literature can be kep...

Runtime:

111 min

N/A

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Superdome

(1978)

Crime, Drama, TV Movie

It's Superbowl. And there's a lot of drama, one of the players, Dave Wolecki, has been so preoccupied with the game and if his bum knee will hold out until the game, has been completely ignoring his wife. And McCauley, the team's star quarterback, is being courted by a management firm, and the man the firm has assigned to get him into ...

Runtime:

100 min

Director:

Jerry Jameson

Cast:

David Janssen, Edie Adams, Clifton Davis, Peter Haskell, Ken Howard

2.6

N/A

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