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 buttons. 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: Television
label: Subject
content: Comedy
label: Subject
content: Comedians
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mark Basile
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0102.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0102
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0102.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: coat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 52 in x 25 in; 132.08 cm x 63.5 cm