Jan 25, 2007 - Sale 2100

Sale 2100 - Lot 21

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
ETHEL MERMAN
Two picture studio contract signed by Merman. October 25, 1937.
29 pages, 8 1/2x11 inches. Holes punched in the left margin. With the original brown paper folder.

This contract -- her first with Twentieth Century Fox -- covered Merman's role as Gerry Allen in Alexander's Ragtime Band, in which she sang the Irving Berlin classics Say it With Music and Blue Skies.