MARY ASTOR - CONTRACT SIGNED 11/04/1958 CO-SIGNED BY: LEO LEFCOURT - HFSID 286901
Price: $450.00
MARY ASTOR
Standard AFTRA contract for Astor's appearance in the Playhouse
90 episode "The Return of Ansel Gibbs" (1958), with a multiply initialed
rider. Also signed by Leo Lefcourt on behalf of CBS
Contract Signed: "Mary Astor" as performer, "Leo Lefcourt"
representing CBS, 1 page 8½x11 with 2 smaller attachments stapled at
left edge, also initialed 3 times by each. Hollywood, California, 1958
November 4. Standard AFTRA contract for Astor's appearance on a TV episode,
"The Return of Ansel Gibbs," for Playhouse 90, on November 27, 1958, with
attached rider stipulating co-star billing for Astor and defining her
compensation. MARY ASTOR (1906-1987) had a successful silent screen
career, costarring with John Barrymore in Beau Brummell (1923) and
Don Juan (1926). Her career was threatened by tabloid scandals in the
1930s, including a very contentious divorce, but she moved on to even greater
film success in the talking era. She won the 1941 Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress for portraying chain-smoking concert pianist Sandra Kovak
in Warner Bros.' The Great Lie, which starred Bette Davis. That
same year, she costarred with Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese
Falcon. She wrote five novels; her autobiography and subsequent film
memoir were both best sellers. LEO LEFCOURT, a Hollywood lawyer and
theatrical agent, procured the rights to the popular Twilight Episode
"The Hitch-hiker," from author Lucile Fletcher, after prior offers by Rod
Serling had been rejected. Two filing holes at top header affecting "CBS" and
"NETWORK". For staples at left margin. Lightly toned. Otherwise, fine
condition.
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