TONI THOMAS - DOCUMENT SIGNED 11/04/1958 - HFSID 281985

TONI THOMAS
AFTRA membership application signed by dancer and actress Toni Thomas in 1958
Document signed "Toni Thomas" in blue ink. Blue ink notations and lead pencil marks in unknown hand. 2 pages, 6½x9¼, 1 sheet, front and verso. With 6½x3¼ initiation fee receipt carbon copy with perforated left edge stapled at top edge. Nov. 4, 1958. Membership form for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. According to this document, Thomas was a dancer and actress who was scheduled to appear in a 1958 episode of Playhouse 90. At a time when most drama anthology shows were only an hour long, Playhouse 90 (1955-1961) stood out with its hour and a-half long length - hence its title. Playhouse 90 stood out for a more important reason, though. The show attracted high-flight talent, including directors John Frankenheimer George Roy Hill and Sidney Lumet, writers like Rod Serling (his Requiem for a Heavyweight first debuted on Playhouse 90 in 1956 and won a total of five Emmy awards and a Peabody Award for Serling) and actors like Charles Laughton, James Mason, Peter Lorre, Kim Hunter, Vincent Price and Boris Karloff. The series was nominated for numerous Emmy Awards and won four, for Best New Program Series, Best Dramatic Series - One Hour of Longer and Best Dramatic Anthology Series. It also won a Peabody Award in 1959. Lightly toned and creased. Form has show-though (does not touch signature) and light staining on verso (does not show through). Receipt has carbon copy marks and was folded once and unfolded. Otherwise in fine condition.

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