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Maureen O'Hara

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Description

Four items: a personal check, filled out and signed by O'Hara, "Maureen FitzSimons Price," payable to M. C. A. Artists, Ltd. for $7.20; a contract between J. Walter Thompson Company and O'Hara, in which the latter agrees to appear in "Do You Love Me" on the Lux Theatre Radio program on December 23, 1946, for the sum of $3,000, signed at the conclusion in black ink, "Maureen O'Hara"; an agreement between RKO Radio Pictures and O'Hara, dated October 28, 1947, in which the latter purchases the rights to "Out of All Time" for a sum of $70,000, signed at the conclusion in green ink, "Maureen O'Hara"; and an official letter to MCA Arists, signed "Maureen O'Hara," dated January 15, 1947, in part: "In consideration of the advance to me by MCA Artists, Ltd. of the sum of Five Thousand…Dollars…I do hereby authorize and instruct you to accept delivery of any and all checks and/or sums of money which may from time to time be or become payable to me from Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation." Stapled to the letter is the referenced advance instructions, which is also signed by O'Hara. In overall fine condition. Accompanied by two unsigned publicity photos of O'Hara in the 1939 film The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Fine Autographs and Artifacts
  • Dates: #500 - Ended May 10, 2017