Historic 1994 Personal Bank Check — Genevieve Bujold Hand-Signed Academy Award-Nominated Cinema History
This listing highlights an exceptional piece of modern cinema history and international entertainment lore: an original, fully executed personal bank check, dated February 25, 1994. This vintage financial document catches the celebrated Golden Globe Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated French-Canadian actress Genevieve Bujold—acclaimed star of Anne of the Thousand Days, Coma, Choose Me, and Dead Ringers—handling her private day-to-day affairs in Southern California.
Personal everyday checks entirely hand-filled and signed by this fiercely private screen icon are remarkably scarce, serving as a premier centerpiece asset for advanced performance art archives and elite international cinema manuscript collections worldwide.
Key Archive Features & Financial Specifications
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PERSONAL ACCOUNT PRINTED HEADERS: Custom printed with her name block, GENEVIEVE BUJOLD, at the top left corner. To preserve private ownership details, her residential address lines have been neatly blacked out.
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ENTIRELY HAND-FILLED TRANSACTION METRICS: Check No. 603 is completely executed by hand in blue fountain pen ink, filled out to payee Westward Ho for the sum of $33.30 ("Thirty three — 30/100 Dollars"). The face features a prominent red ink handwritten tracking mark reading "3/1" at the top center.
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CENTURY CITY BANKING PROVENANCE: Drawn on the Century City Main Branch 0747 of Bank of America, located at 2049 Century Park East, Los Angeles, CA 90067.
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BANK-STAMPED REVERSE PROVENANCE: The reverse serves as an immaculate legal ledger tracking the document through the 1990s clearing system. It features digital processing stamps from Union Bank Mtry Pk dated March 1, 1994, alongside automated bank clearings from the following day. It includes a printed merchant deposit receipt from Westward Ho #9 confirming the final settlement on February 25, 1994, at 4:53 PM.
Key Autograph Feature & Archival Condition
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AUTHENTIC GENEVIEVE BUJOLD SIGNATURE: The document is beautifully hand-signed "G. Bujold" in blue fountain pen ink across the primary signature line, presenting an incredibly elegant, sprawling, and stylized active-era script.
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COLLECTOR'S ARCHIVAL CONDITION: Spanning over three decades, this original bank document is in wonderful condition. The original Cosmopolitan safety paper stock remains clean, crisp, and structurally sound. Bujold's handwriting, signature, fraction codes, and the back-stamping matrix are bold and beautifully preserved. To protect data privacy, the primary account routing lines on the bottom margins have been neatly blacked out. It comes safely housed in a clear archival sleeve.
