BARBARA HALE - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED 1946 - HFSID 288980

BARBARA HALE
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Barbara Hale's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed twice by Hale, once as an autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed twice: "Barbara Hale", 1 page, 8½x11. Hollywood, California, 1946. Barbara Hale grants to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Inc., its successors and assigns, the exclusive right, to use her name, autograph, photographic likeness, or artist's sketch of the likeness, for reproduction on engraved, embossed or printed stamps, and in stamp albums, and in connection with the advertising and exploitation of these stamps and stamp albums for sale throughout the world. Barbara Hale (1922-2017) starred in films from the mid-1940s. Her best-known roles included 1949's The Window and Clay Pigeon (co-starring husband Billy Williams), and Lorna Doone (1951). She is best remembered, however, in her Emmy-winning role as legal secretary Della Street on Perry Mason (1957-1966 and subsequent television movies). Her son William Katt starred in nine Perry Mason films alongside her. The Motion Picture Relief Fund was founded in 1921 to assist ill and needy film industry veterans, as expressed in its motto: "We take care of our own." The fund raised money through voluntary payroll deductions and celebrity events. As President of the Fund from 1939 until his death in 1956, film and radio star Jean Hersholt conceived Hollywood Star Stamps as a fundraising method. These stamps, 468 in all, were sold at dime stores after World War II in sheets of 6-12, at 10 cents per sheet, and were an immediate hit with collectors. Now called the Motion Picture and Television Fund, the non-profit organization funds its own hospital and retirement home. It confers the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award annually at the Academy Awards ceremony to "an individual in the motion picture industry whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the industry." Filing holes (torn) at left edge. Staple holes at top edge. Normal mailing folds. Otherwise, fine condition.