Caption: Still of Milton Berle, Mickey Rooney, Buddy Hackett, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Sid Caesar, Ethel Merman and Dick Shawn 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 ...