CHARLES KORVIN - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED - HFSID 288945

CHARLES KORVIN
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Charles Korvin's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed twice by Charles Korvin, once as an autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed twice: "Charles Korvin", 1 page, 8½x11. Los Angeles, California, no date. Charles Korvingrants to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Inc., its successors and assigns, the exclusive right, to use his 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. Charles Korvin (1907-1998) was an actor with almost 40 movies and TV shows to his credit between 1944 and 1993, with most of these before 1966. Korvin held down a number of show business jobs in Europe before debuting on the American silver screen in the title role of Enter Arsene Lupin (1944). Korvin's accent handicapped him, and he suffered from being typecast in B-movies as charming rogues - not to mention being blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee. He spent the 1960s on in character roles, but not before one memorable - and un-credited - appearance as a mambo instructor on the 1956 episode of The Honeymooners entitled Mama Loves Mambo.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. Left edge lightly frayed. Staple holes at top left. Lightly creased. Normal mailing folds. Slightly soiled. Pencil note and mark (unknown hand). Otherwise, fine condition.