DS, 31 pages, 8.5 x 11, February 28, 1939. Agreement between Henry Fonda and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation employing the actor to render services "in one (1) motion picture, commencing on February 27, 1939, or upon the day following completion of all the services which the producer may require the artist to render in connection with the producer's motion picture now tentatively entitled 'Alexander Graham Bell,'" for compensation of $25,000. Signed at the conclusion in fountain pen by Henry Fonda, and countersigned by a studio executive and notary. Loosely laid into its original brown paper folder. In fine condition.
In the 1939 Twentieth Century-Fox film The Story of Alexander Graham Bell, Fonda played his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, who dramatically hears the first words ever spoken via telephone: 'Mr. Watson, come here! I want you!' The following year would be a busy one for Fonda, as he starred in Young Mr. Lincoln, Drums Along the Mohawk, and The Grapes of Wrath, all directed by the legendary John Ford.
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