Jan 25, 2007 - Sale 2100

Sale 2100 - Lot 32

Price Realized: $ 1,920
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
HENRY FONDA
Studio contract signed by Fonda for the year following production on Drums Along the Mohawk (1939). August 25, 1939.
24 pages, 8 1/2x11 inches. Holes punched in the left margin.

This contract covered Fonda's Academy Award nominated portrayal of Tom Joad in Grapes of Wrath (1940) -- perhaps his greatest performance.