Entertainment Industry Administration Shareholder Meeting Authorization Signed by Ruth Buzzi 1980

Ruth Buzzi

Manuscripts & Autographs

Buzzi, Ruth. Signed shareholders’ meeting consent dated 1980 documenting the corporate procedures through which the Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In performer administered Pootie Inc. Acting as sole director, Buzzi approved the convening of a shareholders’ meeting, revealing how a performer-controlled corporation coordinated formal decision-making through written consents and providing primary-source evidence for the study of entertainment-industry administration, celebrity business organization, and women’s management of professional earnings.

Buzzi, Ruth. Document signed. April 30, 1980. 1 page, quarto. Buzzi, identified as sole director of Pootie Inc., “hereby agrees and consents that a meeting of the shareholders of said corporation shall be held ... on the 30th day of April, 1980....” Signed “Ruth Buzzi” in black ink. The document records the procedural authorization required to convene the corporation’s shareholders, illustrating the distinction between director and shareholder actions within Pootie Inc.’s governance and showing the mechanisms by which its annual corporate business was formally conducted.

Binder punches along the left margin, not affecting the text or signature; otherwise clean and well preserved, in excellent condition. A signed corporate record connecting a prominent woman in American television comedy with the legal and administrative structure governing her professional affairs.

Item #6655

Price: $55.00