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Jun 3, 2011 · Born in Philadelphia, Imogene Fernandez de Coca was the daughter of the conductor at a local opera house. Her mother was a vaudeville performer. Coca began taking piano lessons as a 5-year-old.
Jun 3, 2001 · Imogene Coca, the versatile comedian who starred with Sid Caesar in the legendary television hit “Your Show of Shows,” died Saturday at her home in Westport, Conn. She was 92.
Imogene Coca. Actress: National Lampoon's Vacation. Imogene Coca is best remembered for playing opposite Sid Caesar in the live 90-minute Your Show of Shows (1950), which ran every Saturday night in regular season on NBC from February 1950 to June 1954. Their repertoire of comedy acts included the very memorable, hilarious, timeless and irreconcilable married couple Charlie and Doris ...
Jun 2, 2001 · 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 ...
Imogene Coca was born as Emogeane Fernandez de Coca on November 18, 1908, in Philadelphia, USA. Her father, Joseph Fernandez Coca, a violinist and vaudeville orchestra conductor, was of Spanish descent. Her mother, Sadie nee Brady, was a dancer and magician's assistant.
Jun 2, 2001 · June 2, 2001 / 2:03 PM EDT / AP. Imogene Coca, the elfin actress and satiric comedienne who co-starred with Sid Caesar on television's classic "Your Show of Shows" in the 1950s, died Saturday. She ...
Imogene Coca was the daughter of performers and was performing herself in vaudeville from an early age. She made her Broadway debut as a chorus girl in "When You're Smiling" in 1925 when she was ...
