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Imogene and Syd Caesar

Stage Name

Birth Name

Imogene Coca Imogene Fernandez de Coca

   - Her father, José Fernandez de Coca who was the conductor at a small Philadelphia opera house and Violin Player, and her mother, Sadie Brady who performed in vaudville as a dancer and a magician act, which is where Imogene probably aquired her talent. Took Piano Lessons as a young child and by the time she was nine years old made her

Stage

debut, by 13 she would be tap dancing, along with various other acrobatics and dancing ballet regularily on the Stage. At age fifteen started dancing at Jimmy Durante's Silver Slipper Nightclub.

   She worked in Vaudeville and Broadway shows as a dancer. She debut as a dancer in in 1923 as a chorus dancer in the Broadway Play "When you Smile". Started a comedy career and soon was hooked up with Syd Ceasar (pictured) in the 1950s for the Television program "Your Show of Shows" and became a household name. She danced with many star dancers on and off the show.

Photos

Imogene Coca Autograph

Birth Place

Birth Date

Spouse

Offspring

Philadelphia, PA 11/18/1908 - 6/2/2001 Robert Burton (1935) None
    King Donovan (1960)  
 

Dance Types

Dance Partners

Music Titles

Ballet Danny Kaye n/a
Ballroom James Starbuck      
Comedy Syd Caesar      
Pantomime            
 

Night Clubs

Theaters

Stage

Rainbow Room Amabassador Theatre (1939) 1925 - When You Smile
Silver Slipper Copley Theatre 1930 - Garrick Gaieties
The Poconos area (NY) National Theatre (1925) 1931 - Shoot The Works
            1932 - Flying Colors
            1934 - New Faces of 1934
            1934 - Fools Rush In
            1936 - New Faces of 1936
            1937 - Dime a Dance
            1938 - Who's Who
            1939 - Straw Hat Review (w/Danny Kaye)
            1940 - All In Fun
            1945 - Concert Varieties
            1954 - Wonderful Town
            1959 - The Girls In 509
            1979 - On The Twentieth Century
 

Films

Television

Publications

1937 - Dime a Dance 1949 - Admiral Broadway Revue (w/ Caesar) 1951 - Life Magazine
1937 - New Faces $ 1950/54 - Your Show Of Shows 8/1952 - Dance Mag
$1985 - Alice in Wonderland 1954/55 - Imogene Coca Show 11/26/1954 - Colliers Mag
$1963 - Under the Yum-Yum Tree 1958 - Sid Caesar Invites You      
Ball, Coca & Other Funny Females 1959 - The Girls in 509      
      1963 - Grindl      
      1966 - Its About Time      
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May 20, 2003
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