Wake Me When It's Over (film)
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Wake Me When It's Over is a 1960 DeLuxe Color comedy film directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Ernie Kovacs and Dick Shawn in CinemaScope. The screenplay concerns a World War II veteran who gets called back into service by mistake and sent to a dreary Pacific island. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Howard Singer. The title song was written by Sammy Cahn (words) and James Van Heusen (music) and sung by Andy Williams.
Wake Me When It's Over (film)
Ernie Kovacs
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Ernest Edward Kovacs was an American comedian, actor, and writer.
Kovacs on the set of his television show in 1956
Kovacs on Three to Get Ready in 1951 with Gertrude, who was donated after Kovacs asked his viewers to bring things they no longer wanted to the WPTZ-TV lobby.
Kovacs with close associate Andy McKay (wearing a mask made of masking tape), who relocated to New York with Kovacs (and Gertrude) in 1952.
With wife Edie Adams in the television series Take a Good Look