^Lot 1042 Ernie Kovacs

Quirkily brilliant entertainer (1919–1962) whose freewheeling sense of humor and sense of visual style made him one of the most distinctive personalities in the early days of television. He died in an auto crash while driving the notoriously ‘unsafe at any speed’ Chevrolet Corvair. DS, one page, 8.25 x 5.5, no date (but circa 1960). Kovacs’s Twentieth Century Fox employee personnel statement, mostly filled out in another hand. In the lower portion, Kovacs answers three questions, writing down his wife’s name. “Edith Adams Kovacs,” and his emergency contact, “Treasury Department.” Several office notations, two punch holes to top, and some scattered light creases, otherwise fine condition.