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Lot #914
Victor Fleming

Hitmaker: Mayer signs up the director who helmed Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz

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Hitmaker: Mayer signs up the director who helmed Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz

Academy Award–winning American film director (1889–1949) who helmed such definitive classics as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Treasure Island. DS, eleven pages, 8.5 x 13, February 15, 1934. An agreement wherein MGM engages Fleming’s exclusive services as director for one year at the rate of $2,500 per week, with a “bonus” of $20,000 for services rendered prior to the commencement of the agreement. Fleming has signed in full at the conclusion, along with famed production mogul Louis B. Mayer. The document is housed in its original paper folder. Light handling wear and signatures lightly touching one another, otherwise fine condition. R&R COA.

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