JEFFREY LYNN - CONTRACT SIGNED 02/26/1953 - HFSID 178227
Price: $420.00
JEFFREY LYNN
A contract for the actor to appear in a film titled High
Victory
Contract: "Jeffrey Lynn", 5p, 8½x14. No place, 1952
February 26. Headed: "Television Artists' Employment Agreement". Lynn
signs an agreement with Princess Pictures, Inc. to appear in a film tentatively
titled High Victory for $1,500 and a 2½% share of gross receipts. Jeffrey
Lynn (1909-1995) appeared in a number of feature films, including The
Fighting 69th (1940), All This and Heaven Too (1940) and Million
Dollar Baby (1941), but perhaps his "biggest" assignment was "starring"
as Ashley Wilkes in the screen tests for David O. Selznick's 1939 epic, Gone
With The Wind. Lynn, who read lines for such aspiring Scarlett O'Haras as
Paulette Goddard and Frances Dee, left Hollywood two years later to become
an Army intelligence officer in WWII (he was awarded a Bronze Star). Beginning
in 1948, Lynn attempted to resume his screen career, appearing in such films as
Butterfield 8 (1960) and Tony Rome (1967). He found greater
success, however, as a stage and television actor, starring in two series,
My Son Jeep (1953) and Star Stage (1955), and appearing on the
soaps The Secret Storm (1966-1967) and The Edge of Night (1971).
High Victory never made it to the screen. Staple and binder holes in
upper margin. Top edge of first page is frayed. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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