SHIRLEY MacLAINE PARKER, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATION, Defendant and Appellant, 3 Cal. 3d 176

Summary

Defendant appealed from a grant of summary judgment entered in plaintiff's favor and the trial court's awarding plaintiff the recovery of agreed compensation under a written contract for her services as an actress in a motion picture. The court affirmed, holding that defendant's sole argument--plaintiff's failure to take an alternative role in a different motion picture resulted in her unreasonable refusal to mitigate damages--was without merit. The court held that defendant's failure to show that the other motion picture would be comparable or substantially similar employment for plaintiff precluded its mitigation argument.