JEFFREY LYNN - DOCUMENT MULTI-SIGNED 08/06/1946 - HFSID 289011

JEFFREY LYNN
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Jeffrey Lynn's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed five times by Lynn, four times as an autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document multi signed: "Jeffrey Lynn", 1 page, 8½x11. Burbank, California, 1946 August 6. Jeffrey Lynn 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. Jeffrey Lynn (1909-1995) appeared in a number of feature films, including The Fighting 69th (1940), All This and Heaven Too (1940) and Million Dollar Baby (1941), but perhaps his "biggest" assignment was "starring" as Ashley Wilkes in the screen tests for David O. Selznick's 1939 epic, Gone With The Wind. Lynn, who read lines for such aspiring Scarlett O'Haras as Paulette Goddard and Frances Dee, left Hollywood two years later to become an Army intelligence officer in WWII (he was awarded a Bronze Star). Beginning in 1948, Lynn attempted to resume his screen career, appearing in such films as Butterfield 8 (1960) and Tony Rome (1967). He found greater success, however, as a stage and television actor, starring in two series, My Son Jeep (1953) and Star Stage (1955), and appearing on the soaps The Secret Storm (1966-1967) and The Edge of Night (1971). 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. Normal mailing folds. Lightly creased. Ink note (unknown hand). Otherwise, fine condition.