Contract for Gone with the Wind signed by Hattie McDaniel: Museum Object and Cultural History
Contract for Gone with the Wind signed by Hattie McDaniel: Date: January 27, 1939. Created by: Selznick International Pictures, American, 1935 - 1943. Signed by: Hattie McDaniel, American, 1895 - 1952.
The object in the museum catalogue
Signed contract between Selznick International Pictures, Inc for the motion picture "Gone with the Wind" with Hattie McDaniel. Contract includes seventeen (17) pages of onionskin paper with ink and mimeographed text printed throughout. The last page includes two (2) signatures, that of Daniel O'Shea, the producer of the film, and that of Hattie McDaniel. Below the signatures is a small blue stamp with signed initials in black ink.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: January 27, 1939
- Created by: Selznick International Pictures, American, 1935 - 1943
- Signed by: Hattie McDaniel, American, 1895 - 1952
- Type: contracts
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
- Place made: Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Actors
- Topic: Business
- Topic: Film
- Topic: Hollywood (Film)
- Object number: 2014.270.1.1
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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