JUDY CANOVA - DOCUMENT DOUBLE SIGNED 11/16/1946 - HFSID 288916

JUDY CANOVA
Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce Judy Canova's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film industry veterans. The form is signed twice by Canova, once as an autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
Document signed twice: "Judy Canova", 1 page, 8½x11. Los Angeles, California, 1946 November 16. Judy Canova 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. Multi-talented Judy Canova (1913-1983) began her career with her brother and sister in New York nightclubs, where she sang, yodeled and played the guitar. Canova made her film debut in 1934, as a member of the Canova family, in The Song of Fame. She would go on to appear in a number of feature films, including Artists & Models (1937), Puddin' Head (1941), Sleepytime Gal (1942), Joan of Ozark (1942), Chatterbox (1943), Louisiana Hayride (1944), Singin' in the Corn (1946), Oklahoma Annie (1952), Lay that Rifle Down (1955) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960). Canova, who was called Queen of the Air (1949), Queen of Corn and Jenny Lind of the Ozarks, was also a popular radio performer, hosting the Judy Canova Radio Show for 12 years, and she also appeared on Broadway and on television. Canova made several TV movies, including Li'l Abner (1967), and she guest starred on a number of series, from Matinee Theatre (1955) to The Love Boat (1977). 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. Staple holes at top left. Normal mailing folds. With an autograph note of unknown hand staple at top right to the front of the form. Otherwise, fine condition.