Imogene Coca

Imogene Coca 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. In her 40s, she began a celebrated career as a comedian on television, starring in six series and guest-starring on successful television programs from the 1940s to the 1990s.

18 November 1908

Born on the same birth day (18 November): Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld • Ant McPartlin • Asa Gray • Attilio Bertolucci • Chloë Sevigny • Clarence Day • Craig Wood (golfer) • Damon Wayans Jr. • Dante Bichette • Duncan Sheik • Elizabeth Perkins • Graham Coughlan • Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolaevich of Russia (1856–1929) • Jim Weirich • Louis Daguerre • Margaret Atwood • Nate Parker • Nathan Kress • Philibert Commerson • Pierre Bayle • Stanisław Kosior • Steven Skrzybski • Thomas Burgess (bishop of Salisbury) • Vittoria Puccini

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