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Lot 1023

A Janet Gaynor signed contract for A Star Is Born

10 December 2019, 14:00 PST
Los Angeles

US$1,000 - US$2,000

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A Janet Gaynor signed contract for A Star Is Born

Mimeographed Document Signed ("Janet Gaynor," "David O. Selznick"), 18 pp, October 9, 1936, between Gaynor and Selznick International Pictures, for the use of Gaynor's services in the role of "Esther" in A Star is Born (1937) for the sum of $125,000, with compensation for further services detailed in the document, bound with staples in blue legal wrappers. After a run of successful silent and sound film pairings with actor Charles Farrell, Twentieth Century-Fox apparently felt Gaynor's star was beginning to wane. Upon letting her out of her contract, she was quickly picked up by Selznick for her role as the rising star opposite Fredric March. Under William Wellman's direction, Gaynor was nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award®.
9 x 11.25 in.

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