DS, three pages in total (3–18 no longer present), 8.5 x 11, June 12, 1944. Agreement between Peck and Vanguard Films, Inc., in which the latter employs Peck “as an actor, performer, and entertainer, to portray the role of ‘J. B.’ in the photoplay now entitled ‘The House of Dr. Edwardes’” for a weekly rate of $4,000. Signed at the conclusion in fountain pen by Peck, and countersigned by a representative of Vanguard Films. In fine condition, with staple holes to top edge. Inspired by John Palmer and Hilary A. Saunders’ 1927 novel, Alfred Hitchcock directed the psychological thriller Spellbound in 1945, casting Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck as the film’s two main protagonists. Peck would earn his first Academy Award nomination later that same year for the film The Keys of the Kingdom. Pre-certified PSA/DNA.
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