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The 1984 TV Comedy Docudrama About The Rise From Radio To Television Fame Of The Comedic Pioneer Of The Orthicon Tube Ernie Kovacs, His Romancing Of His Beautiful Singer Wife Edie Adams, And His Relentless Quest To Rescue His Daughters From The Clutches Of His Deranged First Wife, Starring Jeff Goldblum, Melody Anderson, Madolyn Smith Osborne, John Glover And Cloris Leachman, And Presented In The Highest DVD Quality MPG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As An Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD, MP4 Video Download Or USB Flash Drive! (Color, 1 Hour 40 Minutes.) #ErnieKovacs #EdieAdams #JeffGoldblum #MelodyAnderson #MadolynSmithOsborne #JohnGlover #ClorisLeachman #Movies #Film #MotionPictures #Cinema #Hollywood #AmericanCinema #CinemaOfTheUS #DVD #VideoDownload #MP4 #USBFlashDrive
Director:
Lamont Johnson
Writers:
April Smith
Cast:
Jeff Goldblum ... Ernie Kovacs
Melody Anderson ... Edie Adams
Madolyn Smith Osborne ... Dorothy Kovacs
John Glover ... Pierre Lafitte
Cloris Leachman ... Mary Kovacs
Joseph Mascolo ... Richards
Jordan Charney ... Harry Ascot
Francis X. McCarthy ... Judge (as Frank McCarthy)
Lois De Banzie ... Mrs. Enke
Murphy Dunne ... Leon Lane
Steven M. Porter ... Rusty Valentine
Edie Adams ... Mae West
Fran Bennett ... Miss Deal
Weldon Boyce Bleiler ... Bum Detective
Bryan Englund ... Cab Driver
Soleil Moon Frye ... Elizabeth Kovacs #2
David Garrison ... Dick Eisenback
Bill Geisslinger ... Daryl Pollack
Mike Genovese ... Detective #1
Gary Grubbs ... Nigel Edmunds
Michael Higgins ... William Spear
Mary Alan Hokanson ... Gossip Columnist
Ryan Michelle Lunsford ... Kippy Kovacs #1
Walter Mathews ... Mr. Warren
Tom Middleton ... Station Manager
Anne Murray ... Anne Murray (as Annie Murray)
Ginger Orell ... Kippy Kovacs #2
Tom Ormeny ... MacIntyre
Elsa Raven ... Mrs. Shotwell
Sue Rihr ... Witness #1
Liam Sullivan ... George Abbott
Robina Suwol ... Witness #2
Arthur Taxier ... Detective #2
Heidi Zeigler ... Elizabeth Kovacs #1
Ernie Kovacs, American comedian, actor, writer and game show host (January 23, 1919 - January 13, 1962) was born Ernest Edward Kovacs in Trenton, New Jersey. Kovacs' visually experimental and often spontaneous comedic style influenced numerous television comedy programs for years after his death. Many individuals and shows, such as Johnny Carson, David Letterman, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Saturday Night Live, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Jim Henson, Max Headroom, Chevy Chase, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Captain Kangaroo, Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Dave Garroway, Uncle Floyd, and many others have credited Ernie as an influence. Chevy Chase thanked Kovacs during his acceptance speech for his Emmy award for Saturday Night Live. Some of Kovacs' unusual behaviors include having pet marmosets and wrestling a jaguar on his live Philadelphia television show. When working at WABC (AM) as a morning-drive radio announcer and doing a mid-morning television series for NBC, Kovacs claimed to dislike eating breakfast alone while his wife, Edie Adams, was sleeping after her Broadway performances. His solution was to hire a taxi driver to come into their apartment with his own key and make breakfast for them both, then take Ernie to the WABC studios. While working in Vermont during 1939, he became so seriously ill with pneumonia and pleurisy that his doctors didn't expect him to survive. During the next year and a half, his comedic talents developed as he entertained both doctors and patients with his antics during stays at several hospitals. While hospitalized, Kovacs developed a lifelong love of classical music by the gift of a radio, which he kept tuned to WQXR. Ernie Kovacs died in the early morning when he lost control of his Chevrolet Corvair station wagon while turning quickly and crashed into a power pole in Beverly Hills. He was thrown halfway out the vehicle's passenger side and died almost instantly from chest and head injuries. While Kovacs and Adams received Emmy nominations for best performances in a comedy series during 1957, his talent was not recognized formally until after his death; the 1962 Emmy for Outstanding Electronic Camera Work and the Directors' Guild award came a short time after his fatal accident. A quarter century later, he was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame. Kovacs also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in television. In 1986, the Museum of Broadcasting (later to become the Museum of Television amd Radio and now the Paley Center for Media) presented an exhibit of Kovacs' work, called The Vision of Ernie Kovacs.