Jan 25, 2007 - Sale 2100

Sale 2100 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 540
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
SONJA HENIE
One picture studio contract signed by Henie. June 1, 1936.
29 pages, 8 1/2x11 inches. Holes punched in the left margin. With the original brown paper folder.

with:
A typed letter signed by Henie acknowledging that an option has been picked up for an additional film. May 27, 1936. and with: A typed letter signed by Henie concerning musical numbers by Irving Berlin. December 20, 1938.

The smashing success of Henie's first film One in a Million (1936) would lead to this contract and numerous films including Thin Ice (1937) and Sun Valley Serenade (1941). She became one of Twentieth Century Fox's biggest box office draws during the late 1930s and early 1940s.