Original Mimeographed Samuel Goldwyn Productions Contract with Typed Additions, Signed by Jazz Drummer Louie Bellson for Howard Hawks Film A Song Is Born. With a Typed Rider Initialed by Louie Bellson

Los Angeles, 1947. Original Mimeographed Samuel Goldwyn Productions Contract with Typed Additions, Signed by Jazz Drummer Louie Bellson referencing Mr. Bellson’s employment as a drummer for the soundtrack to the Howard Hawks film A Song is Born, titled ‘That’s Life’ in the contract. With an attached typed single page rider initialed by Louie Bellson. About fine with punch holes from at top, minor creases from folding. A Song is Born was written by Billy Wilder and stars Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, and Benny Goodman. With Tommy Dorsey, Louis Armstrong, Lionel (truncated) Hampton, Charlie Barnet, Mel Powell, and other musicians as themselves in the story of a nightclub singer (Mayo) hiding out from the cops at a musical research institution staffed by bachelor professors - one of whom (Kaye) begins to fall for her. (Inventory #: 22762E)