CATHERINE CRAIG - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED 06/12/1946 - HFSID 289287
Sale Price $495.00
Reg. $600.00
CATHERINE CRAIG
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce
Craig's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy
film industry veterans). She has signed twice, once as an autograph example and
also to give consent. Her sample is a stylized one. A perfectly verified example
of a rare signature!
Document signed twice: "Catherine
Craig","Cordially,/Catherine/Craig" {same "C" used for all 3 words}. 1 page,
8½x11. Hollywood, California, 1946 June 12. Craig 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. She signs with the understanding
that she will accrue no financial benefit or obligation. Catherine Craig
(1915-2004), born to American parents in Santiago, Chile, was married to
actor Robert Preston from 1940 until his death in 1987. The same year she
married Preston, she appeared in her first film, the Boris Karloff vehicle
Doomed to Die. She played small roles until 1947, when she received
more prominent parts in Seven Were Saved and The Pretender,
followed by Albuquerque in 1948. She fell short of stardom, however,
and retired from the screen in 1950.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 at left edge. Paper clip imprints at top left corner.
Top edge creased. Otherwise, fine condition.
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