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John Steinbeck film contract fetched $24,000

January 26, 2007
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Moldova.ORG -- A film contract signed by author John Steinbeck fetched $24,000 at a Motion Picture + Television auction in New York on 25 January.

As Contactmusic notes the contract handed over the rights to Steinbeck's novel “The Grapes of Wrath” to Twentieth Century Fox.
John Ford went on to direct the movie adaptation, which starred Henry Fonda, in 1940.

Contracts signed by Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Yul Brynner and Audrey Hepburn were among the 160 lots which raised a total of $267,280