This signed 28-page contract confirms that the singer will star in the 1958 film Kings Go
Forth
Contract signed: "
Frank Sinatra" in ink on last page. Twenty-eight pages. 8½x11. Separate
sheets.
California. Dated August 20, 1957. Contract between Frank Ross-Eton Productions
and Hobart Productions, Inc.
for Sinatra to star as Sam Loggins in a film tentatively titled
Kings Go Forth at a salary of $200,000. Contract in Part: "Hobart agrees to furnish to
Employer the services of Artist...to act, play and perform the role of Sam Loggins in the
motion picture photoplay tentatively entitled 'KINGS GO FORTH'...employer agrees to pay
to Hobart...the sum of $200,000, payable at the rate of $20,000 per week...it is agreed that
the name of Artist shall be above the title of the photoplay, and Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood,
and Frank Ross shall be the only other parties who shall receive credit above the title of the
photoplay"
Also signed by representatives from Frank Ross Productions, Eton Productions,
Inc. and Hobart Productions, Inc.
Frank Sinatra starred as First Lieutenant Sam Loggins in
Kings Go Forth, which was released in 1958. That year, he was also seen on the big screen in
Some Came Running. His production company, Hobart Productions, Inc.
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