Title: FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX ARCHIVES: DOCUMENTS FROM THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD
Date: January 25, 2007
Time: 2:30 PM
Exhibition: Saturday, Jan. 20, 10-4
Monday, Jan. 22, 10-6
Tuesday, Jan. 23, 10-6
Wednesday, Jan. 24, 10-6
Thursday, Jan. 25, 10-1
Contact Person: Jeremy Markowitz
jmarkowitz@swanngalleries.com

On January 25 Swann was pleased to offer more than 150 items from the Twentieth Century Fox Archives: Documents from the Golden Age of Hollywood. Proceeds from the sale go to benefit the Motion Picture & Television Fund.

The sale's top lot was a contract signed by John Steinbeck assigning the motion picture rights to The Grapes of Wrath, April 24, 1939, which brought $24,000.

Also among the top lots were a typed letter signed by Marilyn Monroe regarding the terms for her appearance on the Lux Radio Theatre program – her radio debut, February 19, 1947, $7,000; a contract signed by William Faulkner, an option agreement for the motion picture rights to The Sound and the Fury, September 1, 1956, $6,500; and a contract signed by Audrey Hepburn for How to Steal a Million, March 5, 1965, $5,400.

Among the other movie stars represented in the sale were:

• Fred Astaire
• Gene Autry
• Lucille Ball
• Irving Berlin
• Humphrey Bogart
• Marlon Brando
• Yul Brynner
• Richard Burton
• James Cagney
• Raymond Chandler
• Joan Crawford
• Bing Crosby
• Dorothy Dandridge
• Bette Davis
• Errol Flynn
• Henry Fonda
• Clark Gable
• Judy Garland
• Jackie Gleason
• Betty Grable
• Cary Grant
• Jean Harlow
• Rita Hayworth
• Sonja Henie
• Katharine Hepburn
• Rock Hudson
• Danny Kaye
• Laurel & Hardy
• Peter Lorre
• Jane Mansfield
• Dean Martin
• Ethel Merman
• Gregory Peck
• Tyrone Power
• Elvis Presley
• Norman Rockwell
• Ginger Rogers
• Will Rogers
• James Stewart
• Three Stooges
• Spencer Tracy
• Lana Turner
• Natalie Wood
• Fay Wray