JOHN CARROLL - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED CIRCA 1946 - HFSID 288891

JOHN CARROLL
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Carroll's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. He has signed twice, once as an autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed twice: "John Carroll", 1 page, 8½x11. Hollywood, California, circa 1946. Carroll 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. John Carroll (1906-1979) drove race cars and studied voice in Europe before becoming a Hollywood stunt man. By the mid-1930s, he had become a leading man in many low-budget action movies. In 1937, he was a singing Zorro in a Republic Pictures serial, Zorro Rides Again. His last starring role was in Decision at Sundown, playing the villain faced off against Randolph Scott. 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." Filing holes at left edge. Staple holes at top edge. Lightly toned and creased. Otherwise, fine condition.