| rdfs:comment | - Coca participated in the 1978 TV special A Special Sesame Street Christmas, appearing to Oscar the Grouch as the Ghost of Christmas Present.
- Imogene Fernandez de Coca (November 18, 1908 - June 2, 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 1950's TV variety series Your Show of Shows. 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 music band, working well into her 80s. Twice a widow, Coca died in 2001.
- Imogene Coca (November 18, 1908 - June 2, 2001) was an American actress, best known as one of the stars of Your Show of Shows, as well as starring in The Admiral Broadway Revue, It's About Time, and Grindl. Coca won an Emmy award for Best Actress in 1951 and a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting in 1953.
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| abstract | - Imogene Coca (November 18, 1908 - June 2, 2001) was an American actress, best known as one of the stars of Your Show of Shows, as well as starring in The Admiral Broadway Revue, It's About Time, and Grindl. Coca appeared in numerous comedy and variety shows and specials, alongside celebrities such as Bob Hope, Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Carol Burnett, Jerry Lewis, Ed Sullivan, and Dick Clark, as well as Your Show of Shows alumni Howard Morris, Sid Caesar, and Carl Reiner. She also made appearances in shows such as The Brady Bunch, Mama's Family, What's My Line?, Hollywood Squares, and The Shirley Temple Storybook (where she played Miss Clavel in an adaptation of Madeline). She voiced Princess Jane Klockenlocher in The Enchanted World of Danny Kaye: The Emperor's New Clothes. In her later years, Coca played Letitia Primrose in the original Broadway version of On the Twentieth Century, Aunt Edna in National Lampoon's Vacation, the main character of the music video to "Bag Lady (I Wonder)" by Ēbn-Ōzn, the Cook in a 1985 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, and the mother of Allyce Beasley's character in an episode of Moonlighting (which earned her her sixth Emmy nomination). Coca won an Emmy award for Best Actress in 1951 and a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting in 1953.
- Coca participated in the 1978 TV special A Special Sesame Street Christmas, appearing to Oscar the Grouch as the Ghost of Christmas Present.
- Imogene Fernandez de Coca (November 18, 1908 - June 2, 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 1950's TV variety series 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 music band, working well into her 80s. Twice a widow, Coca died in 2001.
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