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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968. Typed Contract Signed ("John Steinbeck"), partially completed in manuscript, 2 pp,
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STEINBECK, JOHN. 1902-1968.
Typed Contract Signed ("John Steinbeck"), partially completed in manuscript, 2 pp, April 24th, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation Purchase of Literary Material legal form, also signed by Harold K. Guiznburg as President of Viking Press with embossed seal of Viking, notarized, old folding creases and wrinkles, staple holes at left margin where detached from Twentieth Century Fox legal department cover sheets (present), and with two notarized slips verifying the Viking seal.
SIGNED CONTRACT FOR THE FILM RIGHTS TO GRAPES OF WRATH. The contract is dated only ten days after the novel's official publication date of April 14, 1939. Under studio head Darryl Zanuck, Twentieth Century-Fox wasted no time in producing the film, which premiered in New York on January 24, 1940. Directed by John Ford, and starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Russell Simpson and John Carradine, with a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, the film was a major success, and has come to occupy as important a place in American film as the novel does in American literature. Ford won an Oscar for directing, as did Jane Darwell for her portrayal of Ma Joad. Steinbeck was immensely pleased with the film, as well; after seeing it for the first time, he wrote to his agent Elizabeth Otis, "Zanuck has more than kept his word. He has a hard, straight picture in which the actors are submerged so completely that it looks and feels like a documentary film and certainly it has a hard, trufthful ring. No punches were pulled—in fact, with descriptive matter removed, it is a harsher thing than the book, by far. It seems unbelievable but it is true" (quoted in Benson, p 411).
SIGNED CONTRACT FOR THE FILM RIGHTS TO GRAPES OF WRATH. The contract is dated only ten days after the novel's official publication date of April 14, 1939. Under studio head Darryl Zanuck, Twentieth Century-Fox wasted no time in producing the film, which premiered in New York on January 24, 1940. Directed by John Ford, and starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, Russell Simpson and John Carradine, with a screenplay by Nunnally Johnson, the film was a major success, and has come to occupy as important a place in American film as the novel does in American literature. Ford won an Oscar for directing, as did Jane Darwell for her portrayal of Ma Joad. Steinbeck was immensely pleased with the film, as well; after seeing it for the first time, he wrote to his agent Elizabeth Otis, "Zanuck has more than kept his word. He has a hard, straight picture in which the actors are submerged so completely that it looks and feels like a documentary film and certainly it has a hard, trufthful ring. No punches were pulled—in fact, with descriptive matter removed, it is a harsher thing than the book, by far. It seems unbelievable but it is true" (quoted in Benson, p 411).