First Annual Coco-Nuts Award
date: label: date made
content: 1978
label: Associated Date
content: June 5, 1978
name: label: referenced
content: Coca, Imogene
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: First Annual Coco-Nuts Award, presented to Imogene Coca "for best performance anywhere," from the cast of On the Twentieth Century, June 5, 1978. The award is an elliptical wooden plaque with a fancy cut edge and two cut glass attachments with writing and design in blue ink. At top, a round glass piece sits within a lead medallion and is decorated with sock and buskin masks and the title "Coca-Nuts Award." Beneath this, a rectangular glass piece reads "FIRST ANNUAL COCA-NUTS AWARD PRESENTED TO IMOGENE COCA 6-5-78 FOR BEST PERFORMANCE ANYWHERE FROM THE CAST OF "ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY' BECAUSE THEY'RE NUTS ABOUT COCA."
label: Description (Brief)
content: Coca appeared as religious zealot Letitia Primrose in the original Broadway production of the musical On the Twentieth Century in 1978, a role for which she was nominated for a Tony Award. The role was written for Coca by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, who based the musical on the 1932 play of the same name and its 1934 film adaptation Twentieth Century, both written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Theater
label: Subject
content: Musical Theater
label: Subject
content: Awards and Prizes
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mark Basile
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0102.03
label: accession number
content: 2019.0102
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0102.03
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plaque
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (plaque material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (attachment material)
label: Physical Description
content: lead (medallion material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 in x 6 in x 1/2 in; 20.32 cm x 15.24 cm x 1.27 cm