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MONROE, Marilyn
NORMA JEAN ENTERS SHOW BUSINESS SIGNING HER FIRST STUDIO CONTRACT
Document Signed "Norma jean Dougerty". Hollywood, August 25, 1946, 1 page, legal folio. Elaborately (and very expensively) framed to be an integral 'slate' housing Marilyn's first contract, a wonderful photograph, and some additional copy. The hinged clapper (which actually works) lies along the top of the 'slate', below which is printed "Date", above the photograph "Subject","Location" "Hollywood California" in white chalk and "Take #1 Norma Jean Dougherty". The document has been framed with a portion in facsimile to accomodate the imaginative display arrangement.
It is Marilyn's first studio contract and represents her introduction to the film world as a working actress. The agreement is with 20th Century Fox, pays Marilyn $125 a week, and extends for one year -- the year she would receive her initial starlet training: acting, singing, dancing lessons, introductions to the press, executives, stars and the rest. Countersigned by her guardian Grace McKee, and her agent, the document is the only film related paper which bears the signature Norma Jean Dougherty, as it was in this year under her tenure with Fox that her name was changed to Marilyn Monroe.
NORMA JEAN ENTERS SHOW BUSINESS SIGNING HER FIRST STUDIO CONTRACT
Document Signed "Norma jean Dougerty". Hollywood, August 25, 1946, 1 page, legal folio. Elaborately (and very expensively) framed to be an integral 'slate' housing Marilyn's first contract, a wonderful photograph, and some additional copy. The hinged clapper (which actually works) lies along the top of the 'slate', below which is printed "Date", above the photograph "Subject","Location" "Hollywood California" in white chalk and "Take #1 Norma Jean Dougherty". The document has been framed with a portion in facsimile to accomodate the imaginative display arrangement.
It is Marilyn's first studio contract and represents her introduction to the film world as a working actress. The agreement is with 20th Century Fox, pays Marilyn $125 a week, and extends for one year -- the year she would receive her initial starlet training: acting, singing, dancing lessons, introductions to the press, executives, stars and the rest. Countersigned by her guardian Grace McKee, and her agent, the document is the only film related paper which bears the signature Norma Jean Dougherty, as it was in this year under her tenure with Fox that her name was changed to Marilyn Monroe.