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Auction archive: Lot number 1090

CAIN, JAMES M.

Estimate
US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 1090

CAIN, JAMES M.

Estimate
US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

1. 3 Typed Letters Signed (“Jim”), 3 pp, 4to, Hollywood and Hyattsville, MD, December 27, 1943 to February 14, 1954, to H.N. Swanson, on personal letterhead, light creasing and toning, otherwise fine. Correspondence with his agent regarding recent gifts, contracts, and a complaint Cain lodges towards Otto Preminger, who seemed to have reneged on a deal to option the Cain novella, Galatea, though a carbon of a note from Swanie present here indicates that Preminger paid up after all. 2. 2 Typed Documents Signed (“James M. Cain”) and Initialed, 14pp plus unsigned addenda, legal folio, n.p., November 2, 1943, being duplicate copies of an agreement between Cain and Loew’s Incorporated to write a screenplay for Frankie From Frisco, pages toned and thumbed, staple perforations to upper margins. This film was apparently never made. 3. Typed Document Signed Twice (“James M. Cain” and “James Cain”), 1 p, 4to, n.p., n.d., being page 2 of an agreement with Angelus Pictures, leaf creased and toned, corners bumped, together with typed copy of cover letter from Cain to Angelus Pictures dated June 28, 1943, referring to their agreement regarding the screenplay of The Moon, Their Mistress…, based on Chekhov’s The Shooting Party. Angelus Pictures was the production company of Seymour Nebenzal, who produced several noir films during the 1940s and 1950s. With copy of check stub recording payment for Cain’s 1946 nonfiction article, “Why Did Mildred Pierce Do It?”

Auction archive: Lot number 1090
Auction:
Datum:
19 Feb 2006
Auction house:
Bonhams London
San Francisco 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco CA 94103 Tel: +1 415 861 7500 Fax : +1 415 861 8951 info.us@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

1. 3 Typed Letters Signed (“Jim”), 3 pp, 4to, Hollywood and Hyattsville, MD, December 27, 1943 to February 14, 1954, to H.N. Swanson, on personal letterhead, light creasing and toning, otherwise fine. Correspondence with his agent regarding recent gifts, contracts, and a complaint Cain lodges towards Otto Preminger, who seemed to have reneged on a deal to option the Cain novella, Galatea, though a carbon of a note from Swanie present here indicates that Preminger paid up after all. 2. 2 Typed Documents Signed (“James M. Cain”) and Initialed, 14pp plus unsigned addenda, legal folio, n.p., November 2, 1943, being duplicate copies of an agreement between Cain and Loew’s Incorporated to write a screenplay for Frankie From Frisco, pages toned and thumbed, staple perforations to upper margins. This film was apparently never made. 3. Typed Document Signed Twice (“James M. Cain” and “James Cain”), 1 p, 4to, n.p., n.d., being page 2 of an agreement with Angelus Pictures, leaf creased and toned, corners bumped, together with typed copy of cover letter from Cain to Angelus Pictures dated June 28, 1943, referring to their agreement regarding the screenplay of The Moon, Their Mistress…, based on Chekhov’s The Shooting Party. Angelus Pictures was the production company of Seymour Nebenzal, who produced several noir films during the 1940s and 1950s. With copy of check stub recording payment for Cain’s 1946 nonfiction article, “Why Did Mildred Pierce Do It?”

Auction archive: Lot number 1090
Auction:
Datum:
19 Feb 2006
Auction house:
Bonhams London
San Francisco 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco CA 94103 Tel: +1 415 861 7500 Fax : +1 415 861 8951 info.us@bonhams.com
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