KENNETH MARS - DOCUMENT SIGNED 01/05/1979 CO-SIGNED BY: DAVID SHAPIRA - HFSID 156991

KENNETH MARS. Typed DS: "Kenneth Mars", 4p, 8½x11, separate sheets. No place, headed "As of January 5, 1979" but receipt stamped May 21, 1979. In letter form to David Shapira & Associates, Ltd., Beverly Hills, California. Begins: "Gentlemen". In part: "This will set out our agreement amending the following agency agreements between us: 1. Theatrical Motion Picture Artists' Manager Contract; 2. Television Motion Picture Artists' Manager Contract; 3. Standard AFTRA Exclusive Agency Contract; and 4. Any other agency agreements between us...." Seven changes are made to the Theatrical Motion Picture Artists' Manager Contract, six changes are made to the Television Motion Picture Artists' Manager Contract, three changes are made to the Standard AFTRA Exclusive Agency Contract and a list of five additional provisions is added under the fourth point. Also signed: "David Shapira" for David Shapira & Associates, Ltd. under "Agreed" on last page. 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. Staple holes at upper left blank corners, light paper clip impression at mid-right blank margin on signature page. Fine condition.