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Lot 467

A Katharine Hepburn Signed Contract for ?The Warrior?s Husband.?

Estimate: $2,000 - $3,000

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Hepburn, Katharine. A Katharine Hepburn Signed Contract for ?The Warrior?s Husband.? Typescript contract between Hepburn and Harry Moses of the Actors? Equity Association, dated February 9, 1932 to play the part of Antiope at $100 a week plus 1% of gross box office receipts, signed in black ink ?Katharine Hepburn?, annotated in pencil at top: ?After 3 ? wk 200 + 1% of gross. Matted in a modern beige wooden frame, 24 x 23? overall. Folds. Sales History: Sotheby?s, ?Property from the Estate of Katharine Hepburn,? June 10-11, 2004, Lot 19. In her autobiography Me, Hepburn writes of her breakthrough role in The Warrior Husband: ?My whole family came. They were taking no chances. I had an entrance down a narrow stairway?I had a stag over my shoulder. A tight tunic made of metal links. Beautiful silver leather shin guards showing the leg to a good advantage, and a silver shield and a high silver helmet, and a cape? I was just full of the joy of life and opportunity and a wild desire to be absolutely fascinating? (122?24).