Typed Letter Signed to Twentieth-Century Fox, confirming that their one-year contact begins on September 2, 1939 - just be fore the making of THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940).
Los Angeles: September 2, 1939.
Price: $1,500.00
About the item
One page on carbon copy of 20th-Century Fox's letter to Fonda, requesting confirmation. 1 vols. 8-1/2 x 11 inches. Staple holes in upper left corner.
Item #233806
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 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.
