JANET LEIGH - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED 05/19/1947 - HFSID 288938

JANET LEIGH
Consent form signed twice authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce the actress's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for film industry veterans. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed twice: "Janet Leigh", 1 page, 8½x11. No place, 1947 May 19.  Janet Leigh 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. The mother of actresses Kelly and Jamie Lee Curtis with third husband (1951-1962) Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh (1927-2004) was one of Hollywood's biggest stars from the late 1940s into the 1960s. Best remembered as the Oscar-nominated murder victim in the shower in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), she also starred in such films as Little Women (1949), Scaramouche (1952), My Sister Eileen (1955), Touch of Evil (1958), The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Harper (1966). 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 edge. Staples holes at top left corner. Lightly creased. Pencil marks (unknown hand). Multiple mailing folds. Otherwise, fine condition.