FREDRIC MARCH - DOCUMENT SIGNED 03/26/1956 - HFSID 276787
Price: $575.00
FREDRIC MARCH
He agrees to appear in a TV drama based on Sinclair Lewis'
Dodsworth.
Document signed: "Fredric March", 2p (front and verso), 8½x11.
New York, 1956 March 26. Standard AFTRA Engagement Contract for television.
Marsh agrees to appear in the role of "Sam Dodsworth" in a performance of
"Dodsworth" on NBC's program, Producers' Showcase,
sponsored by RCA and Ford, on April 30, 1956. March is to be paid $25,000, plus
nearly $3,000 in expenses, including travel to NBC's Hollywood studios. March
commits to three weeks of rehearsals, beginning April 9. Signed on p1. Pages 2-4
are standard terms with certain provisions "xxx"'d out by typewriter. Stage,
screen and occasional television actor Fredric March (1897-1975), born
Ernest Frederick McIntyre Bickel, won the Academy Award for Best Actor for
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931-1932) and The Best Years of
Our Lives (1946), and he was also nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for
The Royal Family of Broadway (1930-1931), A Star is
Born (1937) and Death of a Salesman (1951). March, whose
other films include The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934),
Les Misérables (1935), Inherit the Wind (1960) and
Seven Days in May (1964), also won Best Actor Tony Awards for
Years Ago (1947) and Long Day's Journey Into Night
(1957). The Producers' Showcase production of "Dodsworth",
based on the novel by Sinclair Lewis, also starring Geraldine Fitzgerald, Claire
Trevor and Regis Toomey, was shown on the scheduled date. Staple holes in upper
left corner. Two light horizontal folds. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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