Emmy Award for Best Actress presented to Imogene Coca
date: label: date made
content: around 1952
label: date made
content: 1952
label: used date
content: February 18, 1952
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Emmy Award for Best Actress presented to Imogene Coca for her work on Your Show of Shows at the 4th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 1952. The Emmy statuette consists of a winged woman holding an abstract globe atop a domed base. The figure's wings are the globe are broken on this award. It is engraved "AWARDED TO/IMOGENE COCA/BEST ACTRESS/ACADEMY OF TELEVISION ARTS AND SCIENCES/FOURTH ANNUAL AWARDS DINNER/February 18, 1952".
label: Description (Brief)
content: The award ceremony was hosted by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and was held at the Coconaut Grove in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Whereas in previous years Emmy awards were only given to shows produced or airing in Los Angeles area, this was the first year that nominations and awards were given only for shows with a national network television broadcast.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Awards and Prizes
label: Subject
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Television broadcasts
label: Subject
content: Comedy
label: Subject
content: Comedians
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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: 2019.0102.04
label: accession number
content: 2019.0102
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0102.04
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (base material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/8 in x 7 1/2 in; 39.0525 cm x 19.05 cm