STANLEY KRAMER - DOCUMENT SIGNED 02/20/1961 - HFSID 147603

STANLEY KRAMER
Stanley Kramer signs a document to figure out what he owes for dues to the Directors Guild of America.
Typed Document Signed: "Stanley Kramer", 1p, 8½x11. Beverly Hills, California, 1961 February 20. Form for computation of dues in the Directors Guild of America, Inc. Kramer has listed his gross earnings for 1960 as $39,000, the amount he estimates his earnings to be in 1961. In 1960, Kramer had directed and produced Inherit the Wind. In 1961, he would be nominated for an Academy Award as Best Director and he received a nomination in that category from the Directors Guild of America for Judgment at Nuremberg, for which he won a Golden Globe. That year, Kramer was also presented with the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. One of Hollywood's best known independent producers from the late 1940s through the end of the 1960s, Stanley Earl Kramer (1913-2001) was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director for The Defiant Ones (1958), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967). Also nominated for several Golden Globes (and the winner of a Special Achievement Award at the 1960 Golden Globes for Inherit the Wind), Kramer began his career as a production assistant (1933-1940). He directed his first film, Not as a Stranger, in 1955, and went on to direct such features as The Defiant Ones (1958*), On the Beach (1959*), Inherit the Wind (1960*), Judgment at Nuremberg (1961*), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963*), Ship of Fools (1965*), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967*), The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969*), The Domino Principle (1977*) and The Runner Stumbles (1979). He also directed and produced several made-for-TV movies in the Judgment series (1974, 1975). Kramer, who began producing in 1942 (The Moon and Sixpence, as associate producer), also produced Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), Death of a Salesman (1951), High Noon (1952), The Wild One (1953), The Caine Mutiny (1954) and R.P.M. (1970) as well as the films marked with an asterisk above. Kramer also hosted his made-for-TV films, which featured the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and the court martial's of General Yamashita and Lieutenant William Calley, and he appeared as a guest on several TV series, including Toast of the Town (The Ed Sullivan Show) in 1954 and 1955, This is Your Life (1958, 1971), What's My Line? (1960) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971). Lightly creased with folds, not at signature. Computation of fees in ink (unknown hand) at lower portion, date stamp and ink initials at upper right. Typed address of the director on verso. Fine condition.