DONALD MEEK

Contract for the part of MacTavish 

in 

Barbary Coast **

 Minimum Contract for Artists 

Continuous Employment - Weekly Basis - Weekly salary 

One Week Minimum Employment

Effective March 1, 1935

Samuel Goldwyn Inc., Ltd.

2 pages (1 leaf recto and verso), approximately 8 1/2" x 17", June 14, 1935

Signed: "Donald Meek" and initialed 2 times "DM"

** Barbary Coast was released December 27, 1935. Directed by Howard Hawks. 

Written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.

Starring Miriam Hopkins, Edward G. Robinson, Joel McCrea, Walter Brennan

and Donald Meek. 

Condition: very good; two holes in the upper margin

Donald Meek was a Scottish-American actor. Played more than 800 roles.

On the British and American stage before coming to the USA in 1912.

Perhaps best known for his roles as Mr. Poppins in Frank Capra's You Can't Take It

With You (1938) and whiskey salesman Samuel Peacock in John Ford's Stagecoach (1939). 

Other films include Mark of the Vampire (1935), The Barbary Coast (1935), 

Little Miss Broadway (1948).

Born: 1878, Glasgow, Scotland; died: 1946, Los Angeles, California.