她拍过默片，演过几十年舞台剧，拍摄第二部电影的时候距离其电影处女作竟已二十五个年头，此后可用高产来形容。其间曾从好莱坞出逃，重回百老汇。六十年代重回大银幕，事业走向巅峰，《罗斯玛丽的婴儿》使73岁高龄的她成为奥斯卡和金球奖的双料最佳女配角；她除了拍戏，还写作剧本，凯瑟琳·赫本和史宾赛·屈赛主演的《亚当的肋骨》就出自她的笔手。
美籍日裔资深男星，他最为人熟知的作品是《小子难缠》系列电影中的东方武术大师，1985年曾因此片获奥斯卡最佳男配角提名。
Don Adams was born in New York, to a father of Hungarian Jewish descent, and a mother of German and Irish ancestry. He had a sister, Gloria, and a brother, Dick Yarmy. He served in the U.S. Marines in World War II and contracted malaria during the fighting on Guadalcanal island. After the war he began a career as a stand-up comic. He married singer Adelaide Adams and adopted her last name as his stage surname. He had seven children altogether, (four with his first wife, two with his second, one with his third): Caroline Adams, Christine, Catherine, Cecily Adams, Stacey Adams, Sean, Beige. His television career began when he won the Ted Mack & the Original Amateur Hour (1948) talent contest. His most famous role, of course, is as bumbling, incompetent, clueless yet endearing secret agent Maxwell Smart in the classic sitcom/spy spoof Get Smart (1965), although he also had a career as a television director and a Broadway and theatrical dramatic actor.
