HERMAN WOUK - CARBON TYPED LETTER SIGNED 08/22/1951 CO-SIGNED BY: MAX SHULMAN - HFSID 18896

HERMAN WOUK and MAX SHULMAN
The two co-writers of the movie Confidentially Connie (originally titled A Steak for Connie) sign their names on this typed letter giving permission to pay their agent
Carbon Typed Letter signed: "Herman Wouk" and "Max Shulman" in ink, 1p, 8½x11. New York, 1951 August 22. To Loews Inc., New York. In full: "With reference to our agreement dated August 17th,, 1951 under which we granted you an option on 'A Steak For Connie', this is your authority to make the payments provided for in exhibit A to our agent Harold Matson." Herman Wouk (1915-2019) won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize in fiction for The Caine Mutiny. The book became a Broadway play and the 1954 film version, starring Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg, was nominated for six Academy Awards. Wouk's other works include the best-sellers Marjorie Morningstar (1955), Youngblood Hawke (1962), The Winds of War (1971) and War and Remembrance (1978). All of these works became films or - in the case of the latter two - TV miniseries. Wouk's honors include the Guardian of Zion Award (1998) and the first Library of Congress Lifetime Achievement Award for fiction (2008). Author and humorist Max Shulman (1919-1988) began his writing career while attending University of Minnesota, writing for the college's humor magazine. His first success was a previous short-story turned novel, Barefoot Boy With Cheek (1943). Many of Shulman's works were translated into successful films, television series, and plays. Most famous of these was the series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, which ran from 1959 to 1963. Other successes were the Broadway play How Now, Dow Jones (1967) and the film House Calls (1978). 2 file holes at upper margin. Vertical fold along left blank margin. Otherwise, fine condition.