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Best Actress Tony Award Given to Anne Revere for ''Toys in The Attic'' in 1960

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/21/2013

Anne Revere's 1960 Tony Award from ''Toys in The Attic'' for her ''Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play''. Award medal shows the contrasting tragedy/comedy faces of the stage, around which reads ''Antoinette Perry Award''. Medal reverse is custom engraved for Revere within an ivy wreath design, ''The American / Theatre Wing / Presents To / ANNE REVERE / This Award For Her Performance In / 'Toys in the Attic' / 1959-60''. Award was bestowed on Revere as a stage actress during her decades-long hiatus from Hollywood. Nine years earlier, Revere was publicly and dramatically blacklisted for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee. This was the only Tony won by the production of Lillian Hellman's play, which was produced by Kermit Bloomgarden and directed by Arthur Penn. Silver medal measures 3'' in diameter and comes in its original case. Some tarnishing, else fine.