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Imogene Coca
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American comic actress (1908–2001)
Film & TV
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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…
Known for
- Mel Brooks: Unwrapped — Self (archive footage)2018
- In the Beginning: The Caesar Years — Self2012
- Television: The First Fifty Years — Self (archive footage)1999
- Hollywood: The Movie — Roxy1996
- Caesar's Writers — Self (archive footage)1996
- Bobby's World1990
- Buy & Cell — Reggie's Mother1989
- Monsters — The Old Woman1988
- The Little Match Girl — Self - Host1987
- Papa Was a Preacher — Missy B1986
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Philadelphia
- Place of death
- Westport
- Spouse
- King Donovan
- Occupation
- television producer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Detail, (Portrait of Imogene Coca, Café Society (Downtown)(?), New York, N.Y., ca. June 1947) (LOC) (4932354896) (cropped).jpg
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- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 1925-00-00
- described at URL
- www.nytimes.com/2001/06/03/nyregion/imogene-coca-92-is-dead-a-partner-in-one-of-tv-s-most-successful-comedy-teams.html
- Commons category
- Imogene Coca
- date of birth
- 1908-11-18
- date of death
- 2001-06-02
- medical condition
- Alzheimer's disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- Alzheimer's disease
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