Women in Film Catherine Zeta Jones Signed Motion Picture Agency Agreement, 1996

Catherine Zeta Jones

Manuscripts & Autographs

Zeta-Jones, Catherine. Signed theatrical motion picture agency agreement, 1996, documents the Welsh actress’s professional representation shortly before her emergence as a major Hollywood performer. Executed after her early success in British television and before her breakthrough in The Mask of Zorro in 1998, the contract records the talent-representation system through which performers secured advocacy and access to motion-picture employment. It reveals how professional representation operated through a defined contractual term and provides primary-source evidence for the study of women’s labor, career management, and transatlantic movement within the entertainment industry. Zeta-Jones had become widely known in Britain through The Darling Buds of May before relocating to the United States to pursue broader screen opportunities.

Zeta-Jones, Catherine. December 2, 1996. Eight-page document signed; dimensions and agency name not supplied. The agreement establishes a one-year agency relationship specifically covering theatrical motion pictures, distinguishing its scope from more general representation arrangements. Through its fixed duration and stated field of employment, the document demonstrates the process by which an actor formally authorized an agency to pursue or negotiate film work. Zeta-Jones signs “Catherine Zeta Jones” in black ink on the final page.

Executed during Zeta-Jones’s transition from British television recognition to an American motion-picture career, the agreement predates the performances that established her internationally, including The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment. Its research value lies not in documenting a particular production, but in preserving the contractual mechanism that supported her developing film career. No defects are noted in the supplied description; near fine. A substantial signed employment document from the period immediately preceding Zeta-Jones’s Hollywood breakthrough.

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