| MUMBAI:
The Motoion Picture and Television Fund (MPTF) in the US has announced that Twentieth
Century Fox has culled its archives and donated more than 200 rare documents including
signed contracts and internal memos to be sold at an auction to benefit the Fund.
Items in the auction represent
dealings with over 50 Hollywood legends including: Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart,
Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn and Elvis Presley. Films
involvef include Seven Year Itch, Miracle on 34th Street, The
King and I, All About Eve and Love Me Tender.
The auction called From
the Twentieth Century Fox Archives: Documents from the Golden Age of Hollywood,
will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue available at www.swanngalleries.com.
The auction, scheduled for 25 January, 2007, will be conducted by Swann Auction
Galleries in New York City. Proceeds from the sale will directly benefit the MPTF
insurance fund that provides health insurance for actors. Fox Filmed Entertainment
chairman and CEO Tom Rothman says, "Fox's heritage reflects Hollywood itself
and our well maintained document archives are a Tut's Tomb of movie history. These
papers are so cool that, as a fan of that history, I will have to restrain myself
from bidding on each item. This donation is intended to get the past out of file
cabinets into the hands of film lovers and let it serve the present through the
MPTF. We also hope this auction might inspire other studios to follow suit." | 
