KENNETH MARS - CONTRACT SIGNED 01/05/1979 CO-SIGNED BY: DAVID SHAPIRA - HFSID 156990

KENNETH MARS. Carbon Contract signed: "Kenneth Mars" in ink as Artist on last page, 4p, 8½x11, conjoined leaves. Beverly Hills, California, 1979 January 5. "Standard AFTRA Exclusive Agency Contract Under Rule 12-B" by which Mars retains David Shapira & Associates, Inc. as "his sole and exclusive Agent in the transcription, radio broadcasting and television industries..." for a period of one year, commencing on the date of the contract. Standard commission was ten percent. Also signed: "David Shapira" as Agent. In the year he signed this document, Mars was seen in one feature film, The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, in two made-for-TV movies, Before and After and You Can't Take It With You, and was a regular on Carol Burnett & Company, a four-episode summer variety series. Comedian/actor Kenneth Mars (1936-2011) made a smash film debut as the Nazi playwright of Springtime for Hitler in Mel Brooks' The Producers (1968). He gave equally over-the-top performances in Brooks' Young Frankenstein (1974) as well as What's Up Doc? (1972) and Woody Allen's Radio Days (1986). A frequent voice for animated characters in both films and on television, Mars has also been a regular on several non-animated television series, including He and She (1967), The Don Knotts Show (1970) and Shades of LA (1990). He was heard as the voice of Grandpa in The Land Before Time XI: Invasion of the Tinysauruses (2004), a role he had played in nine previous animated films in The Land Before Time series. Lightly creased with folds, light horizontal fold at Mars' signature. Staple holes at upper left blank corners. Ink note (unknown hand) and receipt stamp at upper margin of first page. Fine condition.