Amaze your friends while watching tonight's awards with this trivia about the Emmy statuette.
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Design: Created by television engineer and editor Louis McManus in 1948, the statuette depicts a winged woman holding an atom aloft. The figure represents the muse of art; the atom is the electron of science. McManus used his wife, Dorothy, as the model. The design was chosen after 47 others were rejected.
Name: "Immy" was a term commonly used for TV's early image orthicon camera. It was later modified to Emmy, which seemed more appropriate for a female symbol.
Maker: The R.S. Owens Co. in Chicago makes about 400 statuettes each year for the Primetime Emmys. Surplus awards are stored for the following year's ceremony.
Weight: Emmy weighs 6 pounds, 12 ounces, and is made of gold-plated copper, nickel and silver.
Height: The statuette stands 15.5 inches tall with a base diameter of 7.5 inches.
Cost: Each Emmy costs about $400 to make and winners are required to buy the statuette if they want to keep it.
First: The first award ceremony was held Jan. 25, 1949, with the first "Immy" going to ventriloquist Shirley Dinsdale and her dummy, Judy Splinters, for their variety show.
Most: Frasier. Congrats to Kelsey Grammer. He played Dr. Frasier Crane on Cheers, Wings and Frasier, and has been nominated for an Emmy on all three series. Frasier earned a record 37 Emmys between 1993 and 2004, with Grammer winning four. Counting the one for voice work on The Simpsons, Grammer has five Emmys -- one more than the number of his marriages.
Last: Just so the winners will never forget, the Emmy rules are engraved on the bottom of each statuette. They basically state that the academy owns the statuette and retains all the rights. That means the Emmy can't be used in any commercial manner without permission, and the statuette can never be sold by the recipient or recipient's heirs looking to cash in.
Style on 09/18/2016