Tony Award medallion and bracelet won by June Lockhart
date: label: date made
content: 1947
name: label: performer
content: Lockhart, June
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Tony Award medallion awarded to June Lockhart in 1948 as "Most Promising Newcomer" for her performance in the Broadway play For Love or Money. The gold, circular medallion is on a gold bracelet chain and is housed in a black velvet box with white, satin lining. The medallion is engraved, "The American Theatre Wing Presents your "Tony” an Antoinette Perry Award, 1947-48."
label: Description (Brief)
content: Lockhart received this award at the second annual Tony Award ceremony, held at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City on March 28, 1948. The now-familiar Tony Award statuettes were not given to winners until 1949; for the first two years, awards consisted of scrolls, cigarette lighters, and for female awardees, gold compact cases and medallion bracelets.
label: Description (Brief)
content: June Lockhart, the daughter of actors Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Arthur, was a popular television, film, and stage actress best known for her portrayals of Ruth Martin on the television series Lassie (1958-1964) and Dr. Maureen Robinson on Lost in Space (1965-1968). In a long and varied career, Lockhart debuted on staged at the age of eight, appeared as a child actress in films in the 1930s and 1940s, and portrayed a diverse range of characters in television series including drama, Westerns, science fiction, soap operas, cartoons, television movies, and hosted nationwide beauty pageants and parade broadcasts.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Theater
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: June Lockhart
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2008.0032.01
label: accession number
content: 2008.0032
label: catalog number
content: 2008.0032.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 1 1/4 in; 15.24 cm x 3.175 cm