DS, thirteen pages, 8.5 x 11, March 4, 1957. Contract between Paramount Pictures, Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions, and James Stewart, in which the latter agrees to "act, play and perform the leading male role in the motion picture photoplay tentatively entitled From Amongst the Dead." Signed at the conclusion in fountain pen by Stewart, who adds his initials to emendations made on pages 1 and 11; also signed by the Vertigo screenwriter, Samuel A. Talyor. Includes a two-page addendum to the contract, in which Paramount lends "the services of James Stewart" to Alfred J. Hitchcock Productions. In fine condition, with usual document wear. This fantastic movie contract relates to the lead casting for Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece Vertigo, a film that was adapted from the French novel D'entre les morts (From Among the Dead) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Stewart was cast as John 'Scottie' Ferguson, a former police detective forced into early retirement because an incident in the line of duty has caused him to develop acrophobia and vertigo. Scottie is soon hired by an acquaintance, Gavin Elster, as a private investigator to follow Gavin's wife Madeleine, who he believes is in danger. Although Vertigo earned mixed reviews upon initial release, the film is often cited as a classic Hitchcock work and one of the defining films of his career.
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