BUSBY BERKELEY - CONTRACT SIGNED 12/28/1938 - HFSID 254752
Sale Price $637.50
Reg. $850.00
BUSBY BERKELEY
Busby Berkeley signs a contract with Loew's Incorporated as a dance
director and creator on Broadway Serenade
Contract Signed: "Busby Berkeley", 4p, 8½x11, separate sheets.
Culver City, California, 1938 December 28. Loew's Incorporated hires
Berkeley "as a dance director and creator of dance numbers in connection with
our photoplay now entitled 'BROADWAY SERENADE'...at the rate of Two Thousand
Dollars ($2,000.00) per week...." Countersigned by an officer of
Loew's. After years at Warner Bros., Broadway Serenade was Berkeley's
first film for M-G-M. It starred Jeannette McDonald and Lew Ayres. Director
and choreographer Busby Berkeley (1895-1976) is famed for his spectacular
musical production numbers, featuring scores of chorus girls. Beginning with
hit Broadway musicals in the 1920s, Berkeley moved to films with the advent of
sound, producing hit musical films like 42nd Street (1933). When not
choreographing and directing musical extravaganzas, he proved a skilled director
of serious dramas like They Made Me a Criminal (1939). At age 75, he came
out of retirement to direct a Broadway revival of No No Nanette. Lightly
creased. Staple holes at upper margins (½-inch tears above staple holes at right
on first 2 pages, all paper intact), file holes at upper margins. Otherwise,
fine condition.
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