ORCZY (Baroness Emmuska) Typed document signed, 3pp., 4to, dated 8th October 1935, being a

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ORCZY (Baroness Emmuska) Typed document signed, 3pp., 4to, dated 8th October 1935, being a memorandum of agreement between Orczy and Twickenham Film Studios Ltd. in which Orczy grants licence to the studio to complete a film based on her novel A Spy of Napoleon in exchange for a payment of £1500 in instalments, detailing the terms of the six payments, and allowing the studio to change the title of the work as long as they ‘undertake to arrange for the publication of the words ‘adapted from A SPY OF NAPOLEON by Baroness Orczy’ immediately following the title of the said work….’. Signed by Orczy at the conclusion and further initialled by her to the foot of the first two pages. Accompanied by a typed letter from the Literary Agency A. P. Watt & Son dated 8th November 1935 and addressed to Gerald Malvern of Twickenham Film Studios, returning the agreement, and testifying that it was signed by Orczy.Orczy’s work was made into a historical drama film, Spy of Napoleon, in 1936, directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Richard Barthelmess and Dolly Haas.