GREG GARRISON - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED CHECK 08/17/1972 CO-SIGNED BY: JAYNE KENNEDY - HFSID 342397

GREG GARRISON and JAYNE KENNEDY
Signed check from Garrison for $479.05, payable to actress Jayne Kennedy. The check was most likely a payment for her time with the singing and dancing troupe The Golddiggers. Extremely rare!
Check signed: "Greg Garrison", and endorsed: "Jayne Kennedy", 8½x2¾. August 17, 1972. Check no. 865-P drawn on the account of Greg Garrison Productions, Inc. at City National Bank in Beverly Hills, California. Payable to Jayne Kennedy for the amount of $479.05. GREG GARRISON (1924-2005) directed nearly 4,000 TV shows, including Your Show of Shows (1950-1952) and The Dean Martin Show (1965-1974) and Dean's celebrity roasts. He also directed the Kennedy-Nixon Presidential debates of 1960. Garrison was nominated for more than a dozen Emmys, although he never landed one. A combat pilot in World War II, he spent time in a German P.O.W camp. African-American actress, model and sportscaster JAYNE KENNEDY (b. 1951) was the first Black to be selected as Miss Ohio, the first Black actress to grace the cover of "Playboy" magazineand one of the first females to break into the male-dominated realm of sportscasting (1978). After marrying actor, screenwriter and producer Leon Isaac Kennedy, her first husband from 1970-1982, Kennedy made her feature-film debut in Group Marriage (1972). In 1982, she co-hosted the short-lived human interest television series, Speak Up America, with actor and former evangelist Marjoe Gortner. Kennedy, who made a number of exercise videos in the early 1980s, has been married to actor Bill Overton since 1985. Corners slightly worn. Ink stamps. Slightly soiled. Small tear to top edge. Crease down center. Otherwise, fine condition.