JINX FALKENBURG - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED 08/13/1946 - HFSID 289183

JINX FALKENBURG
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Jinx Falkenburg's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed twice by Jinx Falkenburg, once as an autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed twice: "Jinx Falkenburg", 1 page, 8½x11. New York, New York, 1946 August 13. Jinx Falkenburg grants to the Motion Picture Relief Fund, Inc., its successors and assigns, the exclusive right, until December 31, 1947 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. Jinx Falkenburg (1919-2003), born Eugenia Lincoln Falkenburg, an actress, glamour girl and radio and television star, is credited, along with her husband, Tex McCrary, with helping to establish the talk show genre. Early in her career, Falkenburg appeared in several films, including Nothing Sacred (1937), Song of the Buckaroo (1939), Sweetheart of the Fleet (1942) and The Gay Senorita and Tahiti Nights (both 1945). In 1945, she married writer/photographer McCrary, with whom she hosted two radio talk shows, Hi Jinx and Meet Ted and Jinx, and several television shows, including At Home, an NBC show on which the couple interviewed guests in their home, and The Swift Home Service Club, which offered household hints and interviews. In the 1950s, the couple broadcast interviews with celebrities from the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in Manhattan. The couple, who separated in the 1980s, also helped persuade Dwight D. Eisenhower to run for President (and were fundraisers for the Republican Party) and wrote a column for "The New York Herald Tribune". 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. Slightly worn. Lightly soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.