Imogene Fernandez de Coca (18 November 1908 - 2 June 2001) appeared on The Brady Bunch as Aunt Jenny, Carol's aunt, in the episode "Jan's Aunt Jenny".A veteran comic actress of stage, and film and a pioneer in early TV comedy, Imogene was best known for her role opposite Sid Caesar on the 1950s TV variety series Your Show of Shows..
But twice in the first act, and again twice in the second act, we entered, faced the audience and with no expression, jumped around—with me in the huge coat.”Olivia de Havilland was the last living principal actor from the 1939 epic film ‘Gone With the Wind’ and a two-time Academy Award winner.More From the Los Angeles TimesImogene 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.She was also a popular influence on a new generation of comedians—both Burnett and Lily Tomlin would cite her as an influence in their work.Critics loved it too and began hailing Coca as an “up-and-coming comedic talent.”You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.The early 1940s were lean for Coca’s career, but she rebounded to find steady club and cabaret jobs in New York toward the end of World War II.As she recounted to a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times years later, a cold theater had a lot to do with it.“And along with three of the boys in the chorus, I was jumping up and down to keep warm.

59:13. With Caesar’s 90-minute weekly Saturday night show, small-screen comedy came of age.But within a year this backhanded triumph had led directly to Your Show Of Shows. He got a part in another successful coastguard musical, Tars And Spars, and was the only member of the cast to be used when Columbia made a film of it in 1946.Caesar eventually overcame his addictions, thanks to a self-help regime he loosely described as “spontaneous Jungian analysis”. So it made us work harder and made us think deeper.”Army officer who knocked out two Tiger tanks in GermanyProud and mercurial Dutch football star who developed a fast-moving and fluid style of playHis television debut as a relative unknown in the 1949 hour-long weekly Admiral Broadway Revue, which included Imogene Coca, was abruptly cancelled after 19 weeks when the sponsors, the Admiral electronics firm, complained that they were having to retool their factory to meet the surge in demand for television sets — 10,000 a week instead of the 500 they were geared up to produce — on account of the show’s success.Enrolling at the Franklin and Hawthorne junior high schools, he worked after classes to pay for lessons on the saxophone at the Juilliard School of Music. “There were so many things we couldn’t do,” Caesar later recalled.
Imogene Coca is best remembered for her appearance on the television live show, ‘Your Show of Shows’, which ran from February 25, 1950, through June 5, 1954. “But by the third time we came on, the audience started to laugh, and it turned out to be a big hit.”

1986 Press Photo Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca star in "Your Show of Shows" This is an original press photo.

Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca are shown in a scene from one of the fondly remembered skits of the classic comedy program "Your Show of Shows" which was on NBC TV from 1950 to 1954.

A New York-based concept, the genre featured (mostly Jewish) comedians and writers whose edgy, urban sophistication did not always chime with the plainer fare preferred by the American mid-West, where many were only just starting to trade in their radios for television sets. Her first husband, Robert Burton, who arranged music for many of her performances, died in 1955. “I was so attracted to her comic striptease routine that I copied it—stole it!—when I was in college.”Eddie Shack, one of the NHL’s most colorful players on and off the ice and former King, has died at 83.In 1973, Leibman, the original producer of “Your Show of Shows,” packaged a number of outstanding segments from the original program into a theatrical release called “10 From Your Show of Shows,” which brought the classic television show to a new generation. “It was a pleasure to work with her. In 1967, however, “The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special” on CBS won an Emmy for outstanding variety special.With writing by such comedic masters as Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Lucille Kallen and Neil Simon, the show’s regular cast performed sketches, skits and pantomime numbers. Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Buddy Rich on "The Hollywood Palace" - Theatre Sketch by Kovacs Corner. Between 1954 and 1958 Caesar also starred in his own domestic comedy series Caesar’s Hour, the prototype of countless imitations, with his “wives” including Nanette Fabray and Janet Blair.Caesar’s other film appearances included Tars and Spars (1946); The Guilt Of Janet Ames (1947); It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963); A Guide For The Married Man and The Busy Body (both 1967); Ten From Your Show Of Shows (1973), Airport 75, Grease and The Cheap Detective (1978), and The Fiendish Plot Of Dr Fu Manchu (1980) in which he played an FBI agent trying to track down the Chinese arch-villain.Caesar’s Your Show of Shows ran for four years (1950-54), and was also the inspiration for the Peter O’Toole film My Favourite Year (1982).

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