Imogene Coca
Imogene Fernandez de Coca (November 18, 1908 – June 2, 2001) was an American comic actress best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows.
Starting out in vaudeville as a child acrobat, she studied ballet and wished to have a serious career in music and dance, graduating to decades of stage musical revues, cabaret and summer stock. Finally in her 40s she began a celebrated career as a comedienne in television, starring in six series and guesting on successful television programs from the 1940s to the 1990s.
She was nominated for five Emmy awards for Your Show of Shows, winning Best Actress in 1951 and singled out for a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting in 1953. Coca was also nominated for a Tony Award in 1978 for On the Twentieth Century and received a sixth Emmy nomination at the age of 80 for an episode of Moonlighting.
She possessed a rubbery face capable of the broadest expressions—Life magazine compared her to Beatrice Lillie and Charlie Chaplin, and described her characterizations as taking "people or situations suspended in their own precarious balance between dignity and absurdity, and push(ing) them over the cliff with one single, pointed gesture"—the magazine noted a "particularly high-brow critic" as observing, "The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer to smash a butterfly. Miss Coca, on the other hand, is the timid woman who, when aroused, can beat a tiger to death with a feather."
In addition to vaudeville, cabaret, theater and television, she appeared in film, voiced children's cartoons and was even featured in an MTV video by a New Wave band. Though her fame began late, she worked well into her 80s. Twice a widow, Coca died in 2001.
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Fotos
Películas (24)
Mel Brooks: Unwrapped
2018 · Self (archive footage)
In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
2012 · Self
Television: The First Fifty Years
1999 · Self (archive footage)
Caesar's Writers
1996 · Self (archive footage)
Hollywood: The Movie
1996 · Roxy
Buy & Cell
1989 · Reggie's Mother
The Little Match Girl
1987 · Self - Host
Papa Was a Preacher
1986 · Missy B
Nothing Lasts Forever
1984 · Daisy Schackman
National Lampoon's Vacation
1983 · Aunt Edna
Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner
1981 · Molly - Bag Lady
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
1981 · Granny's Maw
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
1978 · Self
Rabbit Test
1978 · Madam Marie
Too Easy to Kill
1975 · Mrs. Bradshaw
Ten from Your Show of Shows
1973
The Emperor's New Clothes
1972 · Princess Jane Klockenlocher (voice)
The Sound of Laughter
1963 · Miss Klutz (Ballerina)
Under the Yum Yum Tree
1963 · Dorkus Murphy
Promises! Promises!
1963 · Woman Under Hair Dryer (uncredited)
Made in Heaven
1956 · Elsa Meredith
Dime a Dance
1937 · Esmeralda
Bashful Ballerina
1937 · Miss Klutz
Imogene Coca Screen Test
1936
Series (34)
Bobby's World
1990
Monsters
1988 · The Old Woman
Alice in Wonderland
1985 · Cook
Moonlighting
1985 · Clara DiPesto
Reading Rainbow
1983 · Self - Narrator (voice)
Mama's Family
1983
The Big Show
1980 · Self
Trapper John, M.D.
1979
Night Gallery
1970 · Wife (segment "The Merciful")
Love, American Style
1969 · Doctor's wife
The Brady Bunch
1969
The Carol Burnett Show
1967 · Self - Guest
It's About Time
1966 · Shad
Bewitched
1964
The Hollywood Palace
1964 · Self
The Danny Kaye Show
1963 · Self
Grindl
1963 · Grindl
The Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962 · Self
The Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958 · Miss Clavel
The Steve Allen Show
1956 · Self - Guest Performer
Tony Awards
1956 · Self - Nominee / Performer
The Imogene Coca Show
1954 · Host
General Electric Theater
1953 · Virginia Odell
This Is Your Life
1952 · Self
Danger
1950
The Colgate Comedy Hour
1950 · Self
The Bob Hope Show
1950 · Self
Your Show of Shows
1950 · Self - Regular Performer
What's My Line?
1950 · Self
The Admiral Broadway Revue
1949
Buzzy Wuzzy
1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
1948 · Self