Fonda and The Grapes of Wrath: a Contract with 20th-Century Fox

Typed Contract Signed between Fonda and Twentieth-Century Fox, a one-year contact to begin with the completion of DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK (1939) - a period covering the making of THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940).

Los Angeles: August 25, 1939.

Price: $4,500.00


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24pp. + 5pp. photocopy of the studio's Synopsis of Employment Contract (amended through 1942). 1 vols. 4to (8-1/2 x 11 inches). Fonda and The Grapes of Wrath: a Contract with 20th-Century Fox. Two holes punched at left margin. Fine.

Item #233805

Under the terms outlined in this contract (e.g., $3,250 per week), Henry Fonda was destined to star in the film which won him an Academy Award nomination for best actor, the film by which he is possibly best remembered, and a film regarded by many as one of the greatest films to come out of Hollywood: THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940), directed by John Ford, from the novel by John Steinbeck. Production on THE GRAPES OF WRATH began early in October of 1939 -- only a few weeks after this contract was signed.