Ernie Kovacs Beverly Hills 1960 - from our story 'The Sublime Cigar: The Great, Good and Bad Smoking Cubans In The 1960s'

Ernie Kovacs, the 41-year-old TV and movie star who has been hailed as one of the brightest comedy finds in years, relaxes in the den of his $600,000 home, a huge colonial set on a grassy knoll in Beverly Hills, Nov. 2, 1960, Los Angeles, Calif. It’s a nice, quiet place to look over script, says Kovacs, who’s rarely seen without a cigar in his mouth. He shares the big house with his actress singer wife, Edie Adams, and their three children. Ernie and Edie also share the TV spotlight. They’re together on the ABC-TV panel show, “Ernie Kovacs’ Take a Good Look.” (AP Photo/David F. Smith)