KIRK DOUGLAS - CONTRACT SIGNED 11/26/1984 - HFSID 168997

KIRK DOUGLAS
Kirk Douglas signs a document with The Bryna Company which hires him to play the role of Amos in a production of the same name.
Typed Document Signed: "Kirk Douglas" in ink on last page, 5p, 8½x11, separate sheets. No place (probably Los Angeles), 1984 November 26. Photocopy of a contract by which The Bryna Company hires Douglas to play the role of Amos in a production of the same name. Douglas' salary and advances are $75,000 per week for four weeks, a total of $300,000. An additional $2,800 is stipulated as total compensation for a second run. Cosigned by a representative of The Bryna Company, Douglas' own production company. Amos, starring Douglas as Amos Lasher, aired as a made-for-TV movie on September 29, 1985. The film also starred Elizabeth Montgomery, Dorothy McGuire, Pat Morita and Ray Walston. Kirk Douglas, considered by many to be the epitome of the Hollywood hard man, made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers in 1946. Three years later, he received his first Academy Award nomination for Champion (1949). Douglas, who received two other Oscar nominations, for The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Lust for Life (1956), both directed by Vincente Minnelli, also appeared in Spartacus (1960), Lonely Are the Brave (1962), The List of Adrian Messenger (1963), Seven Days in May (1964), In Harm's Way (1965) and numerous other feature and made for television films. In addition to his film work, which was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Film Institute in 1991 and an honorary Oscar by the Academy in 1995, Douglas has published two novels and an autobiography, The Ragman's Son (1988). Though he continued to appear in films, by the '80s Douglas began volunteering much of his time to civic duties. Since 1963, he had worked as a Goodwill Ambassador and, in 1981, his many contributions earned him the highest civilian award given in the U.S. - the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Slightly creased. 2 file holes and staple holes at upper margins. Stray black marks from copying, not near signatures. Fine condition.