Caption: Still of Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Edie Adams and Sid Caesar in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Actress, Costume Designer, Writer
Born: April 16, 1927
Star sign: Aries
Height: 5' 6" (1.68 m)
Known for: The Apartment (1960), Here's Edie (1963), Up in Smoke (1978), Here's Edie (1962)
Source: IMDB
The scintillating, sultry-eyed blonde (formerly a redhead) star of screen, TV and award-winning stage went on to become best known, however, for her sensual delivery pitching cigars in taunting 60s ads and commercials with her Mae Westian come-on line, "Why don't you pick one up and smoke it sometime?" This, of course, was at a time when smoking ...