Trench coat worn by Imogene Coca in "modest stripper" act
date: label: date made
content: before 1950
name: label: user
content: Coca, Imogene
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Trench coat worn by Imogene Coca in her "modest stripper" routine on stage and television. In that well-known act, Coca seductively shed a trench coat to reveal another underneath. The brown camel hair wool overcoat is double breasted, with rows of brown leather buttons and a waist belt. This is one of the two coats Coca wore when she performed this act.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Coca was a popular actress and comedian known for her subtle exaggeration and outlandish expressions. She costarred with Sid Caesar on Your Show of Shows (1950-1954), a groundbreaking variety and sketch comedy program celebrated for its adaptation of vaudeville and radio comedy to the new medium of television.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Comedy
label: Subject
content: Comedians
label: Subject
content: Television
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2010.0137.01
label: accession number
content: 2010.0137
label: catalog number
content: 2010.0137.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wool (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 52 in x 25 in; 132.08 cm x 63.5 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, mounted (at widest point): 135 cm x 60 cm x 40 cm; 53 5/32 in x 23 5/8 in x 15 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: shoulders, mounted: 53 cm; 20 7/8 in