DOROTHY LAMOUR - DOCUMENT SIGNED 12/27/1949 - HFSID 296042
Price: $360.00
DOROTHY LAMOUR
Out of court settlement of her dispute with RKO Radio Pictures. In
exchange for dropping her law suit, the actress, signing here as "Dorothy Lamour
Howard" gets $195,000 and release from her contract with the studio.
Document signed: "Dorothy Lamour Howard", 2 pages, 8½x13. No
place, 1949 December 27. Lamour agrees to drop her civil suit against
RKO Radio Pictures Corp. arising from RKO's failure to offer her three
movie roles as prescribed their Employment Agreement of April 14, 1948.
In exchange, Lamour is released from that contract, and will receive
$195,000, paid in three installments by the first week of January, 1951.
Lamour promises not to make further claims against the Corporation arising from
1948 contract. RKO informs Lamour that payments under this agreement are subject
to federal income tax and social security withholding. Best remembered today as
the film partner of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in their "Road" pictures,
Dorothy Lamour (1914-1996) began her career as a popular singer,
performing with Rudy Vallee, Eddie Duchin and first husband and bandleader
Herbie Kay, and hosting her own music show on NBC. Her first big Hollywood film
The Jungle Princess (1936), firmly established her screen image as an
exotic beauty from the South Seas, often clad in a sarong. She made the first of
her six Road movies with Hope in Crosby (The Road to Singapore) in
1940, the last in 1962. Lamour made frequent USO appearances for the
troops and was featured in several Bob Hope television specials in
addition to appearing in films up through 1987 (Creep Show 2). Lamour
sang (well) in many of her films. A thematic CD featuring her songs, Queen of
the Hollywood Islands, was released in 2005. She was married to her third
husband, William Ross Howard III, from 1943 until his death in 1978. Toned.
Edges and corners creased. Staples at top edge. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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