Modern Times   1935   1936   1937   next   previous

Modern Times Clippings 364/382

Motion Picture Daily, New York, June 8, 1936.

Industry Loses One Of Its Noted

      Attorneys In Nathan Burkan

      Represented Many Prominent Figures, Also Columbia,

      Paramount, United Artists, MGM, Academy; Power

      in Tammany (...)

      Drew Up Huge Chaplin Contract

      In 1916 Charlie Chaplin engaged Mr. Burkan to draw up his

$670,000 employment contract with John R. Freuler

of Mutual Film Corporation. Chaplin paid him $1,000 for a day‘s

work. When the contract was formally signed, Burkan

convinced Mr. Freuler that he should have a memento of the

occasion, and sold him his $6 fountain pen, with which

the contract was signed, for $35. Mr. Burkan remained Chaplin‘s

friend and advisor until his death. (...)

      Photo. NATHAN BURKAN

(...) Motion Picture Herald, New York, June 13, 1936

„Friend and advisor for Charlie Chaplin“

Editorial content. „Burkan, Noted Attorney,

      Dies At L. I. Home

      Acute Indigestion the Cause – Was 57

      Nathan Burkan, probably the most prominent of film and

theatrical attorneys and a director of United Artists, died

suddenly at his home at Great Neck, L. I., Saturday, following

an attack of acute indigestion. He was 57.“ (...)

      „Burkan was attorney for important film executives,

among them Winfield Sheehan and Walter Wanger.

For many years, he has been not only attorney, but friend and

advisor for Charlie Chaplin.“ (...)

  

Redaktioneller Inhalt

  Modern Times   1935   1936   1937   next   previous