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Contract for Gone with the Wind signed by Hattie McDaniel

January 27, 1939

Culver City, Los Angeles County, California, United States, North and Central America

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

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.

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Catalog reference: 2014.270.1.1

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