Sold – Signed Cast Photograph of Ernie Kovacs Pioneering Comedy Program
An uncommon postcard of him with the entire cast of his CBS show in 1953, including his right-hand-man Andy McKay, Eddie Hatrack, Trigger Lund and Edie Adams.
One of a handful of true television pioneers, Kovacs began his TV career in 1951, aged only 32. He actually had six different shows during the five years he appeared regularly on television, none of which ran for as long as a year.
His programs initiated the use of blackouts and...
One of a handful of true television pioneers, Kovacs began his TV career in 1951, aged only 32. He actually had six different shows during the five years he appeared regularly on television, none of which ran for as long as a year.
His programs initiated the use of blackouts and trick photography on television, innovated by taking on controversial subjects, and his characterizations such as Percy Dovetonsils and Wolfgang Sauerbratten foreshadowed the use of such comic mechanisms by Jackie Gleason, Johnny Carson and others.
An extremely uncommon postcard photograph of him with the entire cast of his CBS show in 1953, including his right-hand-man Andy McKay, Eddie Hatrack (who he once suited up in a gorilla costume and sat at a piano), Trigger Lund and Edie Adams (later his real life wife), inscribed and signed by Kovacs to “A special friend Estelle,” and signed by the others. Just the second we’ve had of this photograph in all these years.
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