GREGORY PECK - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED 05/14/1947 - HFSID 288784

GREGORY PECK
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Gregory Peck's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed twice by Gregory Peck, once as an autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed twice: "Gregory Peck", 1 page, 8½x11. Los Angeles, California, 1947 May 14. Gregory Peck grants 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. Nominated for five Academy Awards for Best Actor, Gregory Peck (1916-2003) won the 1963 Oscar for the role of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. He received nominations in 1946 for portraying Father Francis Chisholm in The Keys of the Kingdom, in 1947 for the role of Pa Baxter in The Yearling, 1948 for playing Phil Green in Gentleman's Agreement and 1950 for the role of Brigadier General Frank in Twelve O'Clock High. 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 fold. Lightly toned and creased. Unknown stain along bottom edge.  Otherwise, fine condition.