Marilyn Monroe Extremely Early Contract Revision, Signed As Norma Jeane Dougherty....

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Marilyn Monroe Extremely Early Contract Revision, Signed As Norma Jeane Dougherty. Vintage original 1-page 8.5" x 11" typed contract revision on Twentieth Century Fox letterhead, dated September 9, 1946, a five paragraph agreement outlining the details of the star's requested amendments to her payment schedule at the studio, signed by her in blue fountain pen ink "Norma Jeane Dougherty", and by the Fox paymaster at the time, "A.W. DeWeese". This is the legal acknowledgement of fledgling Norma Jeane's request to stagger her very first studio contracted salary more slowly than normal, the particulars of which are underlined in pencil, the casualness of execution suggesting this may have been done by Marilyn herself, though no evidence exists to prove it. Perhaps she was afraid of spending it too quickly, being the first real money she was likely to have earned up to this point. Not merely crucial as one of the absolute earliest documents signed by the neophyte starlet the world would soon come to know as Marilyn Monroe, but arguably more significant in its revelation of her budding self-determination to already, at this very naissance, to control aspects of her career. Lightly age toned around margins, with one tiny age spot near lower right corner, else well-archived and unabused. Comes with an LOA from PSA.

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