Passing: Edie Adams, Actress and Singer - best known for Murial Cigars & as Ernie Kovac's Wife

From The New York Times:

By BRUCE WEBER
Published: October 16, 2008

Edie Adams, an actress, comedian and singer who both embodied and winked at the stereotypes of fetching chanteuse and sexpot blonde, especially in a long-running series of TV commercials for Muriel cigars, in which she poutily encouraged men to “pick one up and smoke it sometime,” died Wednesday October 15 in the West Hills section of Los Angeles. She was 81 and lived in Los Angeles.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/movies/16adams.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin

Edie Adams for Murial Cigars (1965):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7EbLIdE88Q

Also see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-IL4tSg1x8 - Edie sings "That's All": From the episode, "Lucy Meets the Moustache" of the Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. The song meant so much more since it was the last episode of the popular I Love Lucy series. Lucy and Desi were also divorcing after a long tumultuous marriage.