CAIN, James M.

Career in C Major. Two Contracts between Cain and Twentieth Century Fox Pictures for film rights to Cain's short story

Two contracts, one 3 pages and one 5 pages, both ribbon copies, and dated 3 March 1937. Author's own retained copies, both Signed by Cain. Fine. "Career in C Major" was originally published as "Two Can Sing" by The American Magazine in April 1938, then published under its intended title as part of the collection, Three of a Kind, published by Knopf in 1943. This contract yielded two films: Wife, Husband and Friend in 1939, featuring Loretta Young, Warren Baxter and Cesar Romero; and in 1949, Everybody Does It directed by Edmund Goulding and featuring Linda Darnell and Paul Douglas.

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