Emogeane Coca (1908 - 2001)

Born 18 Nov 1908 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Died 2 Jun 2001 at age 92 in Westport, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States

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Biography

Imogene Coca is Notable.

Comedic actress

Emogeane (better known as Imogene) was born in 1908. ^[1] She was the daughter of Joseph Fernandez Coca, an orchestra conductor and violinist, and Sadie Brady, an actress and vaudeville dancer. ^[2][3] At age 5, she started piano lessons; at 6 she began singing lessons, and at 7 she was in dance class. At the age of nine, she was performing as a dancer and was singing on a vaudeville stage by age eleven. ^[3]

She was best known as a comic actress and was beloved for her weekly performances on the television program "Your Show of Shows," for which she won an Emmy Award for Best Actress in 1952. She was nominated for an Emmy a total of six times over the course of her long career. ^[2] She also starred in the television show, "It's About Time." ^[4]

She married twice, first to Robert Burton, who died in 1955, and second to King Donovan, who passed away in 1987. ^[2] She never had children.

She passed away in 2001. ^[1][3]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V3ZK-XZQ : 20 May 2014), Imogene Coca, 02 Jun 2001; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Imogene Coca Wikipedia article
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} "Imogene Coca, satiric comic of TV's Golden Age," The Philadelphia Inquirer 3 Jun 2001: B7. Print. news clipping
4. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_About_Time_(TV_series)

• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGH3-NN9 : accessed 23 June 2018), Imogene Coca in household of Joseph F Coca Sr., Philadelphia Ward 40, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1009, sheet 5A, family 94, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 1410; FHL microfilm 1,375,423.
• "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNMG-1HC : accessed 23 June 2018), Imogene Coca in household of Joseph F Cora, Philadelphia Ward 40, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; citing ED 1508, sheet 4B, line 52, family 74, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1642; FHL microfilm 1,821,642.
• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X423-D3R : accessed 23 June 2018), Imogene Coca in household of Edna C Sturgis, Manhattan (Districts 0001-0250), New York, New York, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 248, sheet 24B, line 57, family 155, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1558; FHL microfilm 2,341,293.
• "New York, New York Passenger and Crew Lists, 1909, 1925-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2HMW-DQG : 15 March 2018), Imogene C Burton, 1952; citing Immigration, New York City, New York, United States, NARA microfilm publication T715 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).

See also:

• Wikipedia: Imogene Coca
• Wikidata: Item Q1291067, en:Wikipedia
• The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 3, 2001. Page 27. "Imogene Coca death." https://www.newspapers.com/clip/21200234/imogene_coca_death/ (Accessed July 3, 2022)