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    has media related to Ernie Kovacs. Wikiquote has quotations related to Ernie Kovacs. The Official Ernie Kovacs Website Works Kovacs' 16 MAD magazine articles...
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    under the title The Ernie Kovacs Show, which aired from 11:15pm to 12:15am ET. Kovacs began to refer to this show as The Ernie Kovacs Rehearsal in its final...
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    My Line? (once as "Edith Adams (Mrs. Ernie Kovacs)" while her husband was on the panel; once together with Kovacs; twice alone as Edie Adams). Adams starred...
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  • The Nairobi Trio was a sketch comedy skit that Ernie Kovacs performed many times for his TV shows. It combined several existing concepts and visuals in...
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    played by television comedian Ernie Kovacs. It is probably the best remembered of Kovacs' many TV incarnations. Kovacs created the character in 1950 for...
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    as comedian Ernie Kovacs in the 1984 TV movie, "Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter". The movie dealt with the real-life kidnapping of Kovacs' two daughters...
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    baked-bean dinner." Chase acknowledged Ernie Kovacs's influence on his work in Saturday Night Live, and he thanked Kovacs during his acceptance speech for his...
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  • Wayne (uncredited). The picture stars Wayne along with Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian, and Capucine. The script is based on the 1939 play Birthday...
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    as Edie Adams in the television film Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter, opposite Jeff Goldblum as Ernie Kovacs and played the coveted role of Marilyn...
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  • in the 1983 TV miniseries Sadat, and played Ernie Kovacs' wife Dorothy in the 1984 TV movie Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter. Smith starred as Tracy...
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  • Tonight hosting duties with Ernie Kovacs during the 1956–57 season. To give Allen time to work on his Sunday evening show, Kovacs hosted Tonight on Monday...
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    acted most in the 1950s and 1960s, and appeared in seven episodes of the Ernie Kovacs television shows. Brand was from Baldwin Park, California. She graduated...
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  • 1959 American romantic comedy film starring Doris Day, Jack Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs. It was directed by Richard Quine and written by Norman Katkov and Max...
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    him.[citation needed] Lancaster was married to Kippie Kovacs, daughter of the comedian Ernie Kovacs. They had one child, daughter Keigh Kristin. Lancaster...
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  • Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara, Ralph Richardson, Noël Coward and Ernie Kovacs. The film is adapted from the 1958 novel Our Man in Havana by Graham...
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    singer" and becoming a favorite of comedian Ernie Kovacs and appearing several times on The Ernie Kovacs Show. Kovacs' widow, Edie Adams, later recalled that...
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  • Fun House Let's Make A Deal It's Anybody's Guess People Will Talk The Ernie Kovacs Show Days of Our Lives - director (1965-1988) First Love (1954-1955)...
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    with Ben Gazzara. She joined the cast of The Ernie Kovacs Show as a "scantily clad" sidekick to Kovacs, a job that her first husband, television producer...
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  • movies, Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter (starring Jeff Goldblum and Cloris Leachman) and California Girls (starring Robbie Benson, Ernie Hudson, Doris...
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  • Lemmon and Ernie Kovacs. Novak portrays a witch who casts a spell on her neighbor, played by Stewart. The supporting cast features Lemmon, Kovacs, Hermione...
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  • Look up Kovacs, kovács, or Kovács in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kovács or Kovacs, meaning blacksmith, is one of the most common Hungarian family...
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    Hollywood movie set, Kovacs happened to meet a cigar company executive who was impressed that Kovacs continually smoked a cigar. Ernie was impressed that...
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  • produced by Jed Harris, directed by Richard Quine, that stars Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Kathryn Grant, Arthur O'Connell, and Mickey Rooney. The screenplay is...
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    following year, she portrayed Elizabeth (Bette) Kovacs in the biographical television movie Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter, and appeared in another...
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    the late 1950s and early 1960s for its sponsorship of comedian Ernie Kovacs. (Kovacs, a well known cigar smoker, never smoked Dutch Masters off camera...
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  • guest hosts taking over for the summer of 1956. Beginning that fall, Ernie Kovacs (who came over from the faltering DuMont Television Network) was the...
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  • John Rice in 1982. Barbour wrote and narrated Keith Burns' documentary Ernie Kovacs: Television's Original Genius. He also directed and wrote the 1992 documentary...
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  • 1961 Italian-British comedy film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Ernie Kovacs, Cyd Charisse, George Sanders, Dennis Price and John Le Mesurier. It...
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    Letterman, Peter Sellers, Sid Caesar, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Johnny Carson, Ernie Kovacs, Bob Hope, and Woody Allen; and upon his retirement from Conan, he described...
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    also played high-stakes gin rummy and wrote several books on the game. Ernie Kovacs, the comedian and television pioneer, published a book in 1962 called...
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