(2) Jean Harlow signed Caddo Company contracts loaning her services to MGM for Freaks and The Cleanup, countersigned by Irving...

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(2) Jean Harlow signed Caddo Company contracts loaning her services to MGM for Freaks and The Cleanup, countersigned by Irving Thalberg. (MGM, 1932) Two 2-page 8.5 x 11 in. contracts (with identical content), dated November 5, 1931, transacting The Caddo Company loaning actress Jean Harlow to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "to play the leading female part in the photoplay now tentatively entitled 'Freaks' or the leading female part in the photoplay now tentatively entitled 'The Cleanup' and/or both these pictures if production schedule permits." Both are signed "Jean Harlow" and countersigned by Irving Thalberg (on behalf of MGM) and Hughes' chief executive and trusted advisor Noah Dietrich (on behalf of The Caddo Company). Exhibiting usual folds with staple holes and paperclip stains at top. From the personal collection of Howard Hughes.

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