Imogene Coca

Imogene Coca

Nacimiento : 1908-11-18, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Muerte : 2001-06-02

Historia

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.

Perfil

Imogene Coca

Películas

In the Beginning: The Caesar Years
Self
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 Caesar's Hour (1954).
Hollywood: The Movie
Roxy
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 breasts. Also, two old women are magically transformed into young starlets.
The Little Match Girl
Self - Host
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 attempted to sell on the street.
Papa Was a Preacher
Missy B
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 move is sudden and is complicated by the fact that Porter’s wife and eight children are all very comfortable in the large, successful church they have been serving in Dallas.
Nothing Lasts Forever
Daisy Schackman
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 takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
Las vacaciones de una chiflada familia americana
Aunt Edna
Un típico matrimonio americano, que tiene dos hijos, prepara minuciosamente unas vacaciones en el parque temático de Wally World (California), tratando de evitar así cualquier contratiempo. Sin embargo, nada más llegar a su destino empiezan a sucederse toda clase de problemas, de modo que las soñadas vacaciones se convierten en una auténtica pesadilla.
Freddie the Freeloader's Christmas Dinner
Molly - Bag Lady
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 stops in a hospital to entertain some children on Xmas. Red Skelton does a couple of songs on his own & a duet with Vincent Price.
The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies
Granny's Maw
Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot adjust to.
A Special Sesame Street Christmas
Herself
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 to stop being such a Grouch on Christmas.
Un tipo muy especial
Madam Marie
Cuando el profesor Lionel Carpenter tiene, por fin, su primera experiencia sexual, algo extraño e inesperado ocurre: se queda embarazado. Ahora todo el mundo quiere sacar provecho de la situación, incluso el mismísimo presidente.
Too Easy to Kill
Mrs. Bradshaw
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.
Ten from Your Show of Shows
Ten comedy sketches compiled from the 1950s TV series, "Your Show of Shows."
The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes
Princess Jane Klockenlocher
This is one of the 'Animagical' titles from the children's film archive of Rankin/Bass. The story line is reminiscent of an earlier 1966 R/B Animagic film, 'The Daydreamer', both of which chronicles the fairy tales of Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen.
The Sound of Laughter
Miss Klutz (Ballerina)
A compilation of film clips of comedies from 1930's.
Adán también tenía su manzana
Dorkus Murphy
Adan Hogan es dueño de unos lujosos apartamentos que alquila a bajo precio, pero sólo a chicas atractivas que pueda conquistar. Robin, alquila un apartamento con la intención de vivir allí quince días con su novio de un modo experimental, para intentar resolver una cuestión de incompatibilidad de caracteres.
Promesas, promesas
Woman under hair dryer (uncredited)
Después de una borrachera en un crucero, dos mujeres descubren que están embarazadas, y se disponen a encontrar a los padres de los niños.
Dime a Dance
Esmeralda
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 first make herself attractive to men,and gives her a book on the subject. But Imogene, by mistake, picks up the wrong book and reads one on the art of jiu-jitsu. Imogene's first customer is a bashful sailor who gets turned every which way but loose. Hank Henry also appears as a sailor. All four performers had better things ahead of them although,in the case of comedian Hank Henry, not by much.