HATTIE McDANIEL The year she won her Academy Award for Selznick's Gone With the Wind, the first Black American to win an Oscar signs a agreement to work for Selznick International Pictures in 1940 with options through 1946. Partly Printed Contract signed: "Hattie McDaniel", 22p, 8½x11. Culver City, California, 1939 December 30. Countersigned: "Daniel T. O'Shea" as Producer. In part: "Subject: Producer employs Artist to render her services exclusively to Producer as an actress, performer, or entertainer in motion picture photoplays, television, and to make radiobroadcasts and personal appearances when, where and as requested by Producer. Term: From: January 1, 1940 (20 week guarantee) To: June 30, 1940. Compensation: $500.00 per week (20 week guarantee)...." Eight options after the principal six month period ends are listed, raising McDaniel's salary to $550 per week to the end of 1940 with consecutive annual raises which would reach $1500 per week if she worked for Selznick through 1946. McDaniel also agrees to work for Selznick exclusively in "all future developments of the motion picture industry, including (but not limited to) television, black and white, color, silent, sound and talking motion pictures and their accompanying devices which reproduce words, music and/or other sound in synchronism with, in accompaniment of, or supplementary to, photography...." Lawyer DANIEL O'SHEA was Selznick's top executive officer and right hand man. This contract became null and void when Selznick International Pictures was dissolved in 1940. Also included is a two page unsigned autobiography by McDaniel about the filming of Gone With the Wind. McDaniel won the 1939 Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Gone With the Wind, the first Black American actor to win an Oscar. Cover and two loose pages are creased and show wear at edges, else in fine condition. For more information contact HistoryForSale. DOCUMENT 285899.
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