Typed Contract signed between Dorothy Dandridge and Twentieth-Century Fox, to render services as star or co-star in two class 'A' feature length motion pictures

by Dorothy Dandridge

$4,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

49 pp. contract, 1 p. notarization and 7 pp. revised synopsis by the studio, with amendments through February 23, 1959. In all, 57 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Punch holes in left margin, a few creases. Overall, very good. Item #233767 A complex contract with the legendary Dandridge and the studio, coming on the heels of her triumph in Carmen Jones, for which she won an Academy Award nomination for best actress — the first Afro-American woman to be so

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