JAN MARCH - DOCUMENT SIGNED 09/21/1962 - HFSID 281773

JAN MARCH
AFTRA membership application signed by actress Jan March with her legal name "Janet Lea Schmidt" in 1962
Document signed "Jan March" and "Janed Lea Schmidt", bothin blue ink. Blue ink notations in unknown hand. 2 pages, 6x8½, 1 sheet, front and verso. With 6¼x3¼ initiation fee receipt carbon copy with perforated left edge stapled at top edge. Sept. 21, 1962. Membership form for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. According to this document, March was an actress who was scheduled to appear in a 1962 episode of The Jack Benny Show. The Jack Benny Show (1950-1965) was a TV version of comedian Jack Benny's radio show, which ran under different names and sponsors from 1932 to 1955. A show-within-a-show, Benny and show regulars Don Wilson, and Dennis Day (not to mention Benny's "chauffeur" Rochester, played by Eddie Anderson) opened the show with jokes and a song, then played themselves in a short skit, play or movie satire. The Jack Benny Show earned 20 Emmy nominations during its run and won seven, including two for Benny himself and one for Best Comedy Series. Lightly toned and creased. Form was folded in half and unfolded. Receipt has carbon copy marks and was folded once and unfolded. Otherwise in fine condition.

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