Jan 25, 2007 - Sale 2100

Sale 2100 - Lot 1

Price Realized: $ 5,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 4,000 - $ 6,000
HUMPHREY BOGART
One year contract signed by Bogart -- his first studio contract. March 12, 1930.
16 pages, 8 1/2x11 inches. Holes punched in the left margins. With the original brown paper folder.

This contract covered Bogart's work on Up the River (1930) his feature-length film debut and the only time he appeared in a film with Spencer Tracy. Bogart film memorabilia from his pre-Maltese Falcon days is quite uncommon.

the start of a brilliant cinematic career.