Ernie Kovacs Internal Revenue Service canceled check in connection with his high profile 1958 tax audit (top left); two ticket to the filming of The Ernie Kovacs Show in Philadelphia (middle left); his gold metal desktop lighter; and long heavy brass ashtray circa 1950s (both bottom left); and his Gucci Italian leather-wrapped flask circa 1960s still containing vintage brandy (bottom right). Opposite page: hand- drawn original title cards for “Bernie Leighton at the pianer” featuring two seven fingered hands on a k e y boa r d ( t op l e f t ) ; “ Th e We a t h e r w i t h Schroeder” (top right) with a set of stage curtains (top right); “Two Passing Strangers” with “Trygve Lund" and “Andy McKay” on sandwich boards worn by two running men (center left); and “You’ll Laugh” featuring a group of animated folks beside themselves in laughter from T he Ernie Kovacs Show; and an Ernie Kovacs beige vest with an all- over applied floral motif. The Ernie Kovacs Show has the distinction of having aired on all four national television networks during The Golden Age of television. All objects acquired from the estates of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams.
Ernie Kovacs
Ernie Kovacs
THE ERNIE KOVACS SHOW
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