RODDY McDOWALL - DOCUMENT SIGNED 02/11/1946 CO-SIGNED BY: WINEFRED L. McDOWALL, A. W. DEWEESE - HFSID 173291
Price: $380.00
RODDY McDOWALL. Typed DS: "Roddy McDowall", 1p, 8½x10¼.
Beverly Hills, California, 1946 February 11. On letterhead of Twentieth
Century-Fox Film Corporation to Mr. Roddy McDowall, Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Corporation, Los Angeles, California. Regarding McDowall's request to have
his salary prorated over 52 weeks. In part: "Under the provisions
of your Contract, Option (f) begins January 6, 1946 and ends January 5, 1947,
covering a period of Fifty-two (52) weeks of which you are guaranteed Forty
(40) weeks salary at One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) per week, or a total of
Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00)...Prorating the above guarantee over the
entire Fifty-two (52) weeks, we will pay you Seven Hundred Sixty-nine
Dollars and Twenty-three Cents ($769.23) per week for the first Fifty-one (51)
weeks, or a total of Thirty-nine Thousand Two Hundred Thirty Dollars and
Seventy-three Cents ($39,230.73), and Seven Hundred Sixty-nine Dollars and
Twenty-seven Cents ($769.27) for the last week, the total of which payments
equals Forty Thousand Dollars ($40,000.00), the entire amount guaranteed in your
Contract...." Also signed: "W.L. McDowall - Mother &
Guardian" and "A.W. DeWeese" as Paymaster. McDowall,
who was 17 years of age at the time he signed this contract (he would turn 18 on
September 17, 1946), made one film, Holiday in Mexico, in 1946. His
next three films would be released in 1948. British-born actor Roddy McDowall
(1928-1998) arrived in Hollywood to test for the juvenile lead in Fox's How
Green Was My Valley (1941); he won both the role and a long-term contract.
McDowall's first adult acting assignment was as Malcolm in Orson Welles' 1948
film version of Macbeth. Hespent the better part of the early
1960s playing Octavius in the mammoth production Cleopatra (Oscar
nomination for Best Supporting Actor), co-starring with longtime friend
Elizabeth Taylor. An accomplished photographer, McDowall was honored by having
his photos of Taylor and other celebrities frequently published in the leading
magazines of the era. McDowall's most frequent assignments between 1968 and
1975 found him in elaborate simian makeup as Cornelius in the Planet of the
Apes theatrical films and TV series. Lightly creased with folds, not at
signatures. Slightly soiled at upper right blank margin. Fine
condition.
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