American Film and Television History Stanley Kramer Signed Princess Grace Production Contract, 1977

Stanley Kramer

Manuscripts & Autographs

Kramer, Stanley. Signed contract for The Story of Princess Grace: Once Upon a Time Is Now, February 1977, documents the television production system behind a nationally broadcast account of Grace Kelly’s transition from Hollywood actor to Princess of Monaco. Executed between Kramer and Allyn/Lunney Productions, the agreement records the process by which an established filmmaker’s services were secured for a biographical television production conceived by producers David Allyn and Robert Lunney and later presented by NBC in May 1977. The document provides primary-source evidence for the study of television contracting, celebrity biography, production labor, and the adaptation of Hollywood history for mass television audiences.

Kramer, Stanley. February 1977. One-page contract between Kramer and Allyn/Lunney Productions for his services in connection with the television motion picture The Story of Princess Grace: Once Upon a Time Is Now. The document demonstrates the contractual mechanism through which production companies engaged prominent filmmakers for individual television projects. Kramer signs boldly in blue ink, “Stanley Kramer.” The precise nature of his services, compensation, production dates, and additional contractual terms are not included in the supplied description. Contemporary records identify Allyn and Lunney as the project’s producers and show that the completed program aired on NBC’s The Big Event on May 22, 1977.

The agreement dates from Kramer’s later career, after the socially engaged films for which he became best known, including Judgment at Nuremberg and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. His participation connected the television special to a filmmaker whose work had repeatedly addressed political, legal, and racial subjects through mainstream screen production. Clean and well preserved, with no specific defects reported; near fine. A signed production document linking Kramer’s postwar Hollywood career to the expansion of made-for-television celebrity biography during the 1970s.

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