SID CAESAR - CONTRACT SIGNED 08/16/1966 - HFSID 227188
Sale Price $550.00
Reg. $675.00
SID CAESAR
Sid Caesar signs a contract with CBS Television to appear as principal performer on a
program tentatively titled Sid Caesar Revisited.
Partly Printed Document Signed: "Sid Caesar", 1p, 8½x11. No place, 1966 August 16.
Contract with CBS Television to appear as principal performer on a program tentatively titled
Sid Caesar Revisited. Caesar is to be paid $15,000 plus 8% of net profits from the program.A
writer and regular performer on TV's live Your Show of Shows (1950-1954), comedian Sid
Caesar (1922-2014) hosted a series of shows bearing his name for another decade. He earned
an Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1952, and the following year Caesar and Imogene Coca
were voted Best Comedy Team in a poll by "Motion Picture Daily". Caesar's autobiography,
Where Have I Been? (1979), documents his subsequent struggles with pills and alcohol, but he
has continued to appear in cameo roles in films, such as Vegas Vacation (1997). Caesar, who
was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor (Musical) in 1963 for Little Me, is also a
composer and saxophonist. Staple holes at upper left margin, 2 file holes at upper margin, light
paper loss affects 3 letters of printed text. Ink note (unknown hand) at lower margin, chipped at
upper left blank edge. Small amount of adhesive on verso, upper left corner. Overall, fine
condition.
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