Imogene Coca

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Imogene Coca, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Imogene Coca
  • Popularity: 8.862
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1908-11-18
  • Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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  • Also Known As: Emogeane Coca
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Imogene Coca Movies

  • 1983
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    National Lampoon's Vacation

    National Lampoon's Vacation

    7.113 1983 HD

    Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.

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  • 1963
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    The Sound of Laughter

    The Sound of Laughter

    2 1963 HD

    A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.

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  • 1963
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    Under the Yum-Yum Tree

    Under the Yum-Yum Tree

    6 1963 HD

    A love-struck landlord tries to convince a pretty tenant to dump her fiancé and give him a chance.

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  • 1987
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    The Little Match Girl

    The Little Match Girl

    1 1987 HD

    Adaptation of a Hans Christian Andersen story about a poor dying child who dreams of different uses of a lighted match - the same pack she'd...

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  • 1981
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    Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner

    Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner

    4.8 1981 HD

    Freddie the Freeloader sets out to have Xmas dinner in a very expensive New York restaurant with his good friend, the Professor. Along the way he...

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  • 1978
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    Rabbit Test

    Rabbit Test

    4.2 1978 HD

    Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!

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  • 1986
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    Papa Was a Preacher

    Papa Was a Preacher

    1 1986 HD

    Edwin Porter, a Methodist minister, is sent to a little church in the small town of Sterling, Texas, to try to save it from financial insolvency. The...

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  • 1972
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    Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes

    Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes

    5 1972 HD

    Two con men convince a king that they have woven for him a suit made of magical cloth that only stupid or incompetent people are unable to see. Not...

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  • 1981
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    The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

    The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies

    4 1981 HD

    Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot...

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  • 1973
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    Ten from Your Show of Shows

    Ten from Your Show of Shows

    7.5 1973 HD

    Ten comedy sketches compiled from the 1950s TV series, "Your Show of Shows."

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  • 1975
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    Too Easy to Kill

    Too Easy to Kill

    1 1975 HD

    A nurse deeply involved in the occult is hired to care for a wounded policeman who is secretly setting a trap for a cop-killer.

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  • 1984
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    Nothing Lasts Forever

    Nothing Lasts Forever

    6.4 1984 HD

    An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who...

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  • 1989
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    Buy & Cell

    Buy & Cell

    5.1 1989 HD

    Herbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate...

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  • 1999
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    Television: The First Fifty Years

    Television: The First Fifty Years

    1 1999 HD

    Trace the history of television and its impact on American culture with clips, newsreels, and exclusive interviews from television greats like Walter...

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  • 2018
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    Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

    Mel Brooks: Unwrapped

    6.7 2018 HD

    At the age of 91, Mel Brooks is unstoppable, with his musical "Young Frankenstein" opening to great critical acclaim in London in late 2017. Alan...

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  • 1937
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    Dime a Dance

    Dime a Dance

    3 1937 HD

    June Allyson is a cashier in a dance hall and her friend Imogene Coca wants to get a job there as a dance hostess. June advises her she needs to...

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  • 1978
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    A Special Sesame Street Christmas

    A Special Sesame Street Christmas

    6 1978 HD

    Leslie Uggams hosts this take on A Christmas Carol, where she and fellow guest stars, Anne Murray, Imogene Coca, and Dickie Smothers try to get Oscar...

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  • 1963
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    Promises! Promises!

    Promises! Promises!

    4.8 1963 HD

    After a drunken spree on a cruise ship, two women discover that they're pregnant, and set out to find who the fathers are.

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  • 1996
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    Hollywood: The Movie

    Hollywood: The Movie

    5.5 1996 HD

    An ambitious filmmaker sets out to make an avant-garde film but soon learns the only way he can secure financing is if he shows Jessica Hahn's...

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  • 2012
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    In the Beginning: The Caesar Years

    In the Beginning: The Caesar Years

    1 2012 HD

    New interviews with Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner, footage from the reunion of Caesar's Writers (1996), and sketches from Your Show of Shows (1950) and...

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  • 1937
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    Bashful Ballerina

    Bashful Ballerina

    1 1937 HD

    Miss Klutz is the worst dancer that has ever enrolled at the school ran by Maestro Boris Cobblier, and he is even considering giving her money back...

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  • 1979
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    Trapper John, M.D.

    Trapper John, M.D.

    6.3 1979 HD

    Trapper John, M.D. is an American television medical drama and spin-off of the film MASH, concerning a lovable doctor who became a mentor and father...

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  • 1950
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    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    The Colgate Comedy Hour

    7 1950 HD

    The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show starred many...

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  • 1969
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    The Brady Bunch

    The Brady Bunch

    6.716 1969 HD

    When widower Mike Brady marries a lovely lady widow Carol Ann, their two families become one. These are the misadventures of this new couple, their...

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  • 1985
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    Moonlighting

    Moonlighting

    7.507 1985 HD

    After being duped and going bankrupt, model Maddie is convinced by David to become a partner in a detective agency. Together they solve various...

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  • 1983
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    Mama's Family

    Mama's Family

    7.6 1983 HD

    Thelma Harper and her spinster sister Fran open their home to Thelma's recently divorced son Vinton and his teenage son and daughter. It's quite an...

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  • 1966
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    It's About Time

    It's About Time

    6 1966 HD

    It's About Time is an American fantasy/science-fiction comedy TV series that aired on CBS for one season of 26 episodes in 1966–1967. The...

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.6 1962 HD

    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

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  • 1970
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    Night Gallery

    Night Gallery

    7.83 1970 HD

    Rod Serling narrates an anthology of fantasy, horror and sci-fi stories from a set resembling a macabre museum. A chilling work of art serves as the...

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  • 1964
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    Bewitched

    Bewitched

    7.9 1964 HD

    Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband...

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  • 1953
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    General Electric Theater

    General Electric Theater

    6 1953 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.632 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1988
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    Monsters

    Monsters

    7 1988 HD

    Monsters is a syndicated horror anthology series which originally ran from 1988 to 1991 and reran on the Sci-Fi Channel during the 1990s. As of 2011,...

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  • 1964
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    The Hollywood Palace

    The Hollywood Palace

    4.5 1964 HD

    The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970....

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  • 1980
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    The Big Show

    The Big Show

    1 1980 HD

    The Big Show is an American comedy-variety-musical television series produced and broadcast by NBC for several months in 1980. The series aimed to...

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  • 1952
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    This Is Your Life

    This Is Your Life

    6.6 1952 HD

    This Is Your Life is an American television documentary series broadcast on NBC, originally hosted by its producer, Ralph Edwards from 1952 to 1961....

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  • 1950
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    Your Show of Shows

    Your Show of Shows

    5.5 1950 HD

    Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5,...

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  • 1949
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    The Admiral Broadway Revue

    The Admiral Broadway Revue

    1 1949 HD

    The Admiral Broadway Revue is an American variety show that ran from January 28 to June 3, 1949. The show was broadcast live on Fridays, 8-9 pm...

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  • 1963
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    Grindl

    Grindl

    5.5 1963 HD

    Grindl is an American situation comedy that began in the fall of 1963 on NBC, originally sponsored by Procter & Gamble. The show, starring Imogene...

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  • 1956
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    The Steve Allen Show

    The Steve Allen Show

    5 1956 HD

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  • 1948
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    Buzzy Wuzzy

    Buzzy Wuzzy

    1 1948 HD

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  • 1985
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    Alice in Wonderland

    Alice in Wonderland

    6.9 1985 HD

    Sometimes she's too big. Or much too small. Sometimes things are backwards. And there's always too much pepper in the soup! Nothing is quite right...

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  • 1954
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    The Imogene Coca Show

    The Imogene Coca Show

    1 1954 HD

    The Imogene Coca Show is a half-hour NBC television series starring Imogene Coca in both situation comedy and variety show formats. The program...

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  • 1956
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    Tony Awards

    Tony Awards

    5 1956 HD

    The Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Theatre, more commonly known as a Tony Award, recognizes achievement in live Broadway theatre. The...

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  • 1990
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    Bobby's World

    Bobby's World

    6.872 1990 HD

    Bobby Generic lives in a typical suburban neighborhood and uses his overactive imagination to discover a world of daring adventure, incredible wonder...

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally...

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  • 1950
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    The Bob Hope Show

    The Bob Hope Show

    7 1950 HD

    The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night...

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  • 1983
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    Reading Rainbow

    Reading Rainbow

    8.4 1983 HD

    Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's...

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  • 1967
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    The Carol Burnett Show

    The Carol Burnett Show

    7.5 1967 HD

    The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and...

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  • 1964
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    The Hollywood Palace

    The Hollywood Palace

    4.5 1964 HD

    The Hollywood Palace is an hour-long American television variety show that was broadcast weekly on ABC from January 4, 1964 to February 7, 1970....

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  • 1961
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    The Mike Douglas Show

    The Mike Douglas Show

    5.1 1961 HD

    The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that originally aired only in the Cleveland area during much...

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  • 1950
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    What's My Line?

    What's My Line?

    6.7 1950 HD

    Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or...

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  • 1963
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    The Danny Kaye Show

    The Danny Kaye Show

    6.3 1963 HD

    The Danny Kaye Show is an American variety show hosted by Danny Kaye that aired on CBS from 1963 to 1967 on Wednesday nights. Directed by Robert...

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  • 1969
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    Love, American Style

    Love, American Style

    5.8 1969 HD

    An anthology comedy series featuring a line up of different celebrity guest stars appearing in anywhere from one, two, three, and four short stories...

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  • 1958
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    Shirley Temple's Storybook

    Shirley Temple's Storybook

    5.8 1958 HD

    Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations...

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