BEVERLY SIMMONS - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED 01/30/1947 - HFSID 288773

BEVERLY SIMMONS
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Simmons' signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. She has signed twice, once as an autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example of a rare signature!
Document signed twice: "Beverly Simmons", 1 page, 8½x11. Hollywood, California, 1947 January 30. Simmons 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. Child actress Beverly Sue Simmons (b. 1938) appeared in four films between 1943 and 1947: Frontier Girl, Cuban Pete, Little Miss Big and Buck Private Comes Home. After an un-credited role in Week-End With Father (1951), she left the film industry. 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." Three filing holes at left. Staple holes at top left. Normal mailing folds. Lightly toned and creased. Ink and pencil notes and marks (unknown hand). Otherwise, fine condition.