JANIS CARTER - DOCUMENT MULTI-SIGNED 02/25/1947 - HFSID 288955

JANIS CARTER
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Janis Carter's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed three times by Carter, once as an autograph sample and twice to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed three times: "Janis Carter" and "Janis Carter", her second signature is crossed out (still visible), 1 page, 8½x11. No place, 1947 February 25. Janis Carter 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. Janis Carter (1913-1944) sang in Broadway musicals, including DuBarry Was a Lady (1939-1940) and Panama Hattie (1940-1942) before moving to films. Her prominent film roles included Cadet Girl (the only time she sang in a film, 1941), Framed (1947) and Flying Leathernecks (1951). Her TV appearances included the role of hostess on the game show Feather Your Nest (1954-1956). 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. Paperclip indentation at top left. Staple holes at top left. Normal mailing folds. Slightly creased. Otherwise, fine condition.