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Starting out in vaudeville as a child acrobat, she studied ballet and pursued a serious career in music and dance, graduating to decades of stage musical revues, cabaret, and summer stock.

Personificação de Carmen por Imogene Coca, em atuação que contou com a ajuda da entertainer brasileira.

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 s to the s. She was nominated for five Emmy Awards for Your Show of Shows , winning Best Actress in and singled out for a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting in Coca was also nominated for a Tony Award in 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 a interview, Robert Ozn said that during the shoot, she was required to sit on the sidewalk in snow for hours during a blizzard with degree F temperatures. She was the most professional artist I've ever worked with. Coca, Jr. In , still aged 16, she landed her first job in the chorus of the Broadway musical When You Smile. She became a headliner in Manhattan nightclubs with music arranged by her first husband, Bob Burton.

She gained prominence when she combined music with comedy; her first critical success was in New Faces of A well-received part of her act was a comic striptease, during which Coca made sultry faces and gestures but would manage to remove only one glove. She committed this routine to film in the Educational Pictures comedy short The Bashful Ballerina She received excellent notices for her Educational short Dime a Dance.

In a review headlined "Swell Comic Scores," Film Daily wrote: "A real comedienne who will wow the cash customers with her zany antics, Imogene Coca is in a class all by herself, and her style of comedy does not suggest that of any other funster on the screen.