JUDY GARLAND - DOCUMENT MULTI-SIGNED 04/19/1961 CO-SIGNED BY: WILLIAM GRUMAN - HFSID 160700

JUDY GARLAND and WILLIAM GRUMAN
Judy Garland and William Gruman sign a document agreeing that Judy Garland will perform at the Forest Hills Stadium on July 1, 1961.
Typed Document Signed: "William Gruman" under "Agreed to and accepted" and "Judy Garland" for Kingsrow Enterprises, Inc., 1p, 8½x11. No place, but likely New York City, 1961 April 19. Garland contracts for a performance at the Forest Hills Stadium on July 1, 1961. Begins: "Agreement made this date between LIME LIGHT PRODUCTIONS, INC. Hotel Continental, Belt Parkway and Rockway Boulevard, Jamaica 34, New York, hereinafter called First Party, and KINGSROW ENTERPRISES, INC., c/o Freddie Fields Associates, Ltd., 410 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y., hereinafter called Second Party." In part: "First Party hereby warrants that he is the operator herein at the present time and for the duration of this contract, and engages Second Party, and Second Party hereby agrees to supply The Judy Garland Show, consisting of Judy Garland, Mort Lindsey (or a conductor or pianist of like import), John Bello (or a trumpeter of like import), William Lavorgna (or a drummer of like import) and Howard Hirsch (or a percussionist of like import). Said show shall be presented for a single performance at the Forest Hills Stadium on July 1st, 1961, for which First Party agrees to pay Second Party, and which Second Party agrees to accept as full payment, the sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars ($20,000.00). First Party agrees further to deposit Ten Thousand Dollars 9$10,000.00), representing Fifty Percent (50%) of the abovementioned guarantee, no later than May 10, 1961,..." Initialed three times: "J.G." and "W.G.", at where the date of an installment of Garland's fee has been changed (unknown hand), where the second performance of July 2 has been added (unknown hand), and the right to sell Judy Garland items. This show was part of a 31-city tour in 1961, beginning in Miami in January and ending in Washington, D.C. in December. Judy Garland (1922-1969) sang on stage with her sisters in the late 1920s and appeared on records and films from 1936, but her breakthrough to superstardom came with her role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939), singing her signature song, "Over the Rainbow". A capable actress and superbly gifted singer, Garland won an Oscar (with 2 more nominations), three Grammys (plus 6 of her recordings in the Grammy Hall of Fame), a Tony, and at least three Emmy nominations during her legendary career. By the late 1940s, her film career was suffering as a result of personal problems, including struggles with alcohol and the barbiturates that finally killed her, but she made a dazzling comeback in concert tours of the 1960s, especially Judy at Carnegie Hall (1961). Garland is the mother of actress Liza Minnelli and screenwriter/producer Lorna Luft. Lightly creased. Two file holes at upper margin. Lightly creased at corners. Fine condition.