Archive relating to the sale of the motion picture rights to "The Sound and the Fury" to Twentieth Century-Fox; including four contracts signed by William Faulkner.

by FAULKNER, William. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX.

$40,000 · Offered by Biblio

Signed

Los Angeles / New York / Osford, Mississippi,, 1956-1967.. Generally fine.. 11 x 8-1/2 inches.. In addition to the four contracts, there are letters and carbon copies, inter-office notes and memos, and various papers clarifying issues; plus additional contracts signed by Faulkner s editor Saxe Cummins, acting on Faulkner s behalf with power of attorney; one contract signed by Estelle Oldham Faulkner; and one signed by Jill Faulkner Summers. The 1959 acclaimed motion picture was directed by Martin Ritt and starred Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Ethel Waters, Jack Warden, and Albert Dekker.

• Year: 1956
• Binding: unknown

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