?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
WILL ROGERS Ten picture $1.1 million studio contract signed by Rogers. January 1, 1935. 3 pages, 8 1/2x11 inches. Staple holes in the left margin. With the original blue paper folder.
The contract, the first and only million dollar deal of his career, covered his work on Steamboat Round the Bend (1935) and In Old Kentucky (1935) -- both released after his fatal plane crash in August 1935.
rogers's last studio contract, signed just a few months before his tragic death.
