I've got a call in as of Friday to get the poop scoop. They would not have a record of what Essex got paid, for instance, but they would have the weekly minimums or flat-rate minimums.

My guess:  weekly minimum would not be much. I think Bob Clarke told Tom he got about $150 a week as an actor on MAN FROM PLANET X.  I'd expect a writer temporarily on an studio assignment would get more or less the same.  If I'm right, then Bradbury would be making double scale at $300 a week-- no great shakes, but not insulting, considering it was his first screen job.  If he worked on it for, say, 5 weeks, that's $1500, which is good money for writing 30-40 pages.  (However, it becomes less-good money if you go overboard and write 111 pages.)

Further guess-- Essex was probably hired on a flat rate-- X-thousand bucks for the whole job, including at least one rewrite and a polish-- probably in the neighborhood of $5000 total; I'm guessing the WGA minimum was probably about $1800--2500 at the time.

Last Edited By: Ted Newsom Aug 15 10 1:56 PM. Edited 2 times.