Wright: Contractual Obligations

Red passed on a comment she got after her memoriam to Teresa Wright, taken from her contract with MGM's Sam Goldwyn (excepted from the Guardian's excellent obit:

The New York-born Wright's arrival in Hollywood caused a stir, not because of her star power but because of an unprecedented clause Samuel Goldwyn agreed to write into her contract.

It said that she "shall not be required to pose for photographs in a bathing suit unless she is in water. Neither may she be photographed running on the beach with her hair flying in the wind. Nor may she pose in any of the following situations: in shorts; playing with a cocker spaniel; digging in a garden; whipping up a meal; attired in firecrackers and holding skyrockets for the fourth of July; looking insinuatingly at the turkey for Thanksgiving; wearing a bunny cap with long ears for Easter; twinkling on prop snow in a skiing outfit while a fan blows her scarf."

How many people on the brink of stardom today would have the chutzpah to cut that kind of deal?

I need to see more of Wright's movies.

Posted by Mitch at March 10, 2005 04:51 AM | TrackBack