A Clark Gable signed contract for Gone With the Wind Mimeographed Document Signed ("Clark Gable"), 1 p, dated December 6, 1938, on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer letterhead, between Gable and Loew's Incorporated, for the use of Gable's services in the film, Gone With the Wind (1939) in the role of Rhett Butler. The contract amends a previous agreement of August 25 and specifies that Gable will be available once his services are no longer needed on his current film, Idiot's Delight (1939), and an estimated date of December 13 is given as his completion date. Accompanied by an interoffice communication from MGM executive F.L. Hendrickson, an MGM accounting department routing slip relative to Gable, a Record of Loanout indicating Gable's salary of $4500 a week for his services while "loaned out" to Selznick International Studios for the shooting of the picture, and a 5 x 7 in. matte publicity portrait of Gable with a facsimile signature. Clark Gable was adamant about not wanting to play the role of Rhett Butler in author Margaret Mitchell's best-selling Civil War epic, which was published in 1936. He worried that he would never live up to the public's image of Rhett Butler and was wary of another period picture after what he considered his disastrous performance in Parnell in 1937. But Gable's recalcitrance dissipated when he was offered a phenomenal paycheck and experienced continued public encouragement that only he could play the role as it was intended. As he later said, "It was the unprecedented public interest in Rhett that made him a difficult and frightening role to tackle, [but] Rhett always will remain among the most memorable roles I have played on the screen." Provenance: Entertainment Memorabilia, Christie's East, June 2, 1994, sale 7565, lot 50. 8 x 11 in.
A Clark Gable signed contract for Gone With the Wind Mimeographed Document Signed ("Clark Gable"), 1 p, dated December 6, 1938, on Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer letterhead, between Gable and Loew's Incorporated, for the use of Gable's services in the film, Gone With the Wind (1939) in the role of Rhett Butler. The contract amends a previous agreement of August 25 and specifies that Gable will be available once his services are no longer needed on his current film, Idiot's Delight (1939), and an estimated date of December 13 is given as his completion date. Accompanied by an interoffice communication from MGM executive F.L. Hendrickson, an MGM accounting department routing slip relative to Gable, a Record of Loanout indicating Gable's salary of $4500 a week for his services while "loaned out" to Selznick International Studios for the shooting of the picture, and a 5 x 7 in. matte publicity portrait of Gable with a facsimile signature. Clark Gable was adamant about not wanting to play the role of Rhett Butler in author Margaret Mitchell's best-selling Civil War epic, which was published in 1936. He worried that he would never live up to the public's image of Rhett Butler and was wary of another period picture after what he considered his disastrous performance in Parnell in 1937. But Gable's recalcitrance dissipated when he was offered a phenomenal paycheck and experienced continued public encouragement that only he could play the role as it was intended. As he later said, "It was the unprecedented public interest in Rhett that made him a difficult and frightening role to tackle, [but] Rhett always will remain among the most memorable roles I have played on the screen." Provenance: Entertainment Memorabilia, Christie's East, June 2, 1994, sale 7565, lot 50. 8 x 11 in.
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