Sentence:  News that he had signed a <WSD>movie deal</WSD> with 20th Century-Fox had broken in the summer of 1943. Although Como's <WSD>movie deal</WSD> came earlier than he expected, it was the norm for a successful singer to look to Hollywood as the next step on the career path. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  An agreement between a movie production studio and an actor, director, or other person involved in the making of movies, by which that person agrees to participate in the production of a certain number of movies for the studio.